A/N: I'm really liking this series so far! It has a really Vainglory-esque feel to me, and y'all know how much I love that project.
They've assigned her an older kid to show her around the Academy. He's a boy three years older, although he's already so big it looks like more. He has the light hair and pale eyes of the stonemasons who live in the center of town and design buildings and sculptures for the Capitol, and he's currently the top of his class. His name, he tells her, is Cato.
She tries not to yawn and only partially succeeds. "This conversation is great and all," she drawls with the long vowels of the quarries, "but when do we get to start fighting?"
