Ah, I get that. 

You could just have him miss? It's pretty dark and I Imagine it's hiding out in the trees, so it might be hard to throw a knife and hit the mark dead on to kill it. And no, I don't expect mercy like this in the arena, haha. Just in advance, I'm very okay with gore and I know it's going to be pretty bloody. I'm ready to take the Y out of YA and write what the books were missing.