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et you, Synecdoche Rochet. Remember why you are here," Coach Medrano reminded me for the
ong maraming mga matang nakatingin dito sa loob ng Launch Room ng Mahar. Alam kong bente
n, Synecdoche?" Coach M
bute a chamber. I hope Ulap, Token, Keithwarth, and Vani will stick to our plan for the final stage of the comp
ow back from being burned, I want the entire nation to glow. Gusto ko ng liwanag. Gusto natin ng liwanag pero bini
h the G's. We don't know the final round." He finally inserted the last
on could have been splashed on the wall," Tiningnan ko ang repleksiyon ko sa salamin at sinabi ko
any underground passages after descending a ladder from the hovercraft that takes tributes to the arena. Th
f the Launch room, I saw a ma
ly 1 district shall remain inside the Word arena. A competition of a lifetime. In
rately and alphabetically from A to Z with corresponding industries. All are controlled by the terrifying power of the Embassy and are sub
ds entered our mineral extraction facilities on Earth. The path had been set for millennia; the time of humanity's final test set by the cosmos. Ang
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and material services in exchange for protection provided by the Embassy's armies called Manjies. Years of brutal oppres
resent their district on the 2nd Maharlika Spelling TwistBee at dalhin sa Word Arena. Kaya kami nandito sa Mahar-we only want the prize and our freedom back i
Welcome again to the 2nd M
tains the Launch Plate, a metal disk that ascends from the launch room into the arena. Ang lahat ng tributes ay bahagyang iniaa
I rise. As the disk stops, I can see all the tributes standi
see his brown-gold eyes locked on mine. His face is all broad planes and rough angles-as solid as brambled oak, softe
age?" He just reaches his hand to me like he wa
n, Synecdoche," he s
us. Don't do such awful things or else they
n? Okay, may pen ako rito." I
e
ok author idol. G's platform was far from P's. Hin
kin. He wrote 'Not Now' on it. "Come on, just try to pass me some energy- I mean, some imaginary ability of yours. I'm jealous,
os ngayon ay may gana ka pang mag
s competition. He got a sharp mind, p
rin iyon? Iyong
r. "Of course! How could you force me para ibenta iyon sa Grass U
aming hinahabol. I don't want him to beat me so he presented me his Puso or banana bell. He told me t
an unexpected encounter left us hanging because it was gone the time I fell out of the well. When I woke up that tim
and I do the same. It's a black letter tattoo. An elegant script letter G tattoo
llance cameras are everywhere, trade and commerce are forbidden, walang kalayaan, no right to eat our cultivated grains k
g up and down like her bird friends. She's on the left side of me. I forgot m
you all stand straight, chin up, they're watching
ng disorder, again. We almost lost the previous stages of the spelling bee because of him, but we can't blam
ith the letter of your district." Naalala ko ang huling sinabi n
tri
row,
set to lash the Word Arena. One hundred thirty brilliant juveniles from Districts A to Z are conspired to see each other on the 2nd Maharlika S
Vani, again. "Don't be afr
on, 130 tributes, 5 tributes each district and only 1 district will win. For
tter any word while Vani, talks to me, "Isang buwan? For sure this will be exciting.
us. That's... somehow good. I am
rything will be televised. That is why there are w
Is money involved here? Will
be spelled based on their bets. The more money a bidder
ind the top lists of the previous gam
given English word not verbally but by killing other competitors. The final round is too far from the previous rounds because it is a battle royale game wher
butes aligned to the spelling of the word of the day, and Killers; those who were not included and the ones who will kill the Spells. In the arena, there were life kit boxes. They contain food, water, medicine, flashlight, and oth
your life. Each wrong killed letter is equivalent to one life in your district. Be careful who to kill, and remember when to kill. The winning district will be granted any three wishes tangible or intangible tha
ektahan ang sarili, get some life kits because we might die from murder, bombing, suffocation, hunger, dehydration, attacks of wild animals, health conditions via climate change. It cou
is for
etition that is usually done on top but this is a competition of a lifetime
. I want to go out of the disk but it will just open after the countdown. We started to shout like we ha
stops, Mikey's voice en
tely derives from the Middle High German verb schouwen "to look at" or "to see". It can be various belief systems, religions, ideologies, and science. Example s
topia? Now, the big problem was that I can hear a "V" in its first letter. Pr
y. I know there's a G on its last letter but I don't wan
d to run towards the Patag center to get some ba
kill each other until th
e five hopes of District G, of Grass,
hal ko siya... kasi parte siy