A few minutes later...

Ursula sat in the tiny room that was nestled in the justice building. Many things raced through her mind like, would she live? Would she kill? Her frantic thinking was ended whenever the door cracked open and her mother, father, sister, and great grandmother appeared along with two peacekeepers. The keepers looked at their watches and nodded to the family, "three minutes then she'll be put into the custody of her mentor." The keepers left the room, and she looked up from the bench at her mother and father who were very nervous about their daughter's well being. Her mother quickly said, "You can win this. I hope that you just fight to your full potential and don't stop until the dirt hits the coffin." She immediately nodded to her mother and walked over and hugged her. Her mother slipped a tiny rock into her daughter's hands and whispered to her. "This will bring you luck. Your great great grandfather took this as a token since his family was too poor to afford a proper token." She looked at her mother and tried to stay strong, then she turned her attention to the clock. "1 minute left." She quickly disengaged from her mother and turned towards her father and hugged him. "I love you, dad." He nodded and she turned her attention to Jezebel and she said quietly in a tone that was meant not to alert her parents, "Stay strong and remember to train while I'm gone. I'll see you soon if I play my cards right." The keepers came in and escorted the family out, and in less than a few minutes a tall man with a faux hawk came in and he grinned wickedly at her.

The man who she immediately knew was Corick Alabaster, he won the ninety second game and he was quite impressive since he killed seven tributes individually. Corick looked at her and started waving his hands sarcastically. "Hi I'm Corick, and I will be your mentor. We'll get along as long as you don't come behind me, because I am liable to have a flashback and attempt to kill you. She immediately gulped and looked at him, "Uh.. okay." A grin appeared slowly across his lips before he laughed heartily and said loudly, "C'mon lighten up kid, I'll at least try to make sure that you make it out of that arena without being in a body bag." She reluctantly laughed along with him. "I'm just kinda nervous about the guy from our district. He seems like he already wants to kill me and I've barely shaken his hand." Corick nodded. "Yep, I advise keeping your distance from that fella," at that moment Corick looked at his watch. "Damnit, I think that the train arrived." She looked at him questionably. "Don't you have to meet Gavin?" He quickly shook his head. "The guy didn't have any visitors, so I just went ahead and visited him. Now let's get going."

They met up with Gavin a few moments later and Corick looked at them both, "Both of you look decently strong. You two will more than likely be members of the career pack." They talked more about the subject as they boarded the train, and began their ride to the capitol. Ursula sat looking out of the windows as they passed through district three, five, and one before finally reaching the capitol. (I didn't want to bore you all to death with the train scene.) She saw as people in crazy colored wigs and strange make-up all looked at their train and waved at them, she had never been given this much attention so she quickly waved to the crowd and blew kisses at them as they passed by towards the end of their stop in terminal two. Corick looked at both tributes before he let them walk out onto the terminal, "play nice and act impressed. It'll get you sponsors."


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