"Dumbass! Wake up. You have a message from your sponsors."

"RaGyhahhh?"

Katana boy is shaking me awake. I flinch at the sight of him, but then I remember our 'deal'. I sit up, and pick up the package. There's a note. It says:

"I knew a guy with a goat. They survived through many hard times and were happy. I'm sorry for the lame story. I thought you might be interested.

- your mentor, Twiggy."

Enclosed is a piece of cloth. By the quality, it must be from district 8. Is that possible? I work out the code. It's not difficult. Twiggy is not that smart. Goat= kid. Rosa's baby is safe. Well, that's good at least. I guess the capitol must have known there would be an uproar if they didn't do the right thing. At least that's one less thing to worry about.

I'm in the kind of mood where if I don't smile, I will cry; so I smile, and I make to get up. My legs won't work. As I make a second attempt to stand, My jacket falls from my shoulder. I turn my head and groan. It looks bad. I'm just deciding to put my jacket back on and try and forget about it, when Katana boy touches my arm.

" Bloody hell. I can see it was some fight you must have had with my ex cohorts."

He says in a tone of voice quite different from what I had heard before.

" Look, let me see to that. I knew a healer back in 1. She showed me some stuff."

He helps the best he can, and I admit, I do feel a lot better. But I still don't understand how he's changed so suddenly. It's like the time he helped me during training, or during the bloodbath. There must be more to him than meets the eye.

" Right. I'm done here. Now get moving. We should probably find somewhere else to shack up. Keep on the move."

he gets up, and makes to gather up the few supplies. As a spur of the moment thing, I grab his hand and look him in the eye, trying to convey all the questions I can't ask in that one look.

"Thank you."

He looks at me with an unreadable expression for a few seconds, before reverting to his default look of contempt, and continuing with his job.

" It's weird,"

He says, sounding somewhat tired.

"But I still don't know your name."

"It's Drayden." I reply, face almost on fire. What the hell was I thinking?"

"Cool. I'm Saph. Real name is Sapphire, But call me that and I kill you. Gottit?"