"Well don't make friends with the wrong people either. Protecting the weak only makes you end up dead." Belle pointed out. "Admittedly you are good. Keep it up and you may have allies." She raised her eyebrow suggestively. She threw another spear and hit the neck. "So what's your name, two?" She asked, brandishing another spear. She was curious despite herself. She was thinking maybe she would get no allies, but that was foolish. Her trainers taught her that.
Eli hated this. He trained hard, but he always seemed to fail. He watched a girl get knocked off the hammers, and decided to try it. He glanced at her apologetically, and started to jump from bench to bench. He passed two, four, eight, until he passed all ten. He laughed. He couldn't help it. It wasn't from being happy though. It was cruelly ironic that he was only good at running. Run away. He would be killed by weather, or maybe he would be killed by rabid cougars or stung by Tracker Jackers. Sorry mom. He hoped she would be able to live on. He just went to the survival skills. Maybe he could outlive them.
Sevilen felt the air knocked out of her. She coughed, fighting for it back. Her eyes were closed as she struggled up, only for her head to hit something. There hadn't been something there before. Was there? She opened her eyes, blinking as she saw a boy. He was from... She thought back to the parade. Ugh. She could only think of that horrible tree costume. She took his hand thankfully, coughing again. At last she had enough air she managed to wheeze "Thanks." She kept her eyes fixed on him, afraid he might be trying to trick her. If forty one tributes wanted her dead, what were the chances he would be nice?














