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He watches her now, as she pulls an eight in training and joins with the traditional Career pack. As she dazzles the crowd in her mermaid costume the night before she'll probably die. As she grows close, too close, to the others in her fragile alliance, and he realizes what he was missing.
He watches her lead them, though it's usually the District 2 boys who are in control, but nobody can deny the power of the tall, charming girl from the fishing district – though, he tells himself, he can fish better than she can, even if she is faster.
For a moment there, he's really scared for her, because as strong as she is, the boy from 11 is stronger. But then he's dead and it turns out he shouldn't have worried, and he watches as she walks away from his body without a backward glance.
And then he watches as little twelve-year-old Jet's head falls to the ground, and he watches as she wakes up and sees it, and he watches as she realizes what it is, and he watches as she starts to scream, and he nearly starts screaming himself.
But he doesn't, because he can tell she's going mad, and if there's one thing he's not going to do, it's act like the crazy girl.
So he screams on the inside instead.