During Games season for the next three years, all the other Victors kept their distance. Well, almost all of them.
Calico was seen trying to strike up conversations with her a few times, until Lonnie would drag him away, whispering about the dangers of getting too close to someone like her. Then Cecelia would tell her not to be so rude, that Sylvia could probably hear them talking about her.
Berry and Logan only spoke to her a few times, more out of politeness than anything else. She was from their district, a child of Seven just like them, but that was where it ended.
But Davy was the only one actually willing to approach her. He never disclosed to anyone why he did so, but it was because he was sick of feeling ostracised from the others. He couldn't help it if he dropped things sometimes! And he hated the way everyone always referred to him as 'kid'. As if he wasn't even worth considering. Mean.
And if he and Sylvia were always ostracised, then maybe they could be ostracised together.
So he always sat with Sylvia, ate with her, talked with her. She, much to everyone's shock, was actually somewhat reciprocative. Sylvia had always been a lone wolf, so to see her interacting with somebody that wasn't the Fire Spirit, especially when that somebody was Davy, was interesting.
She never said much, of course, but that was fine with Davy.
Despite the fact that their relationship still wasn't particularly close, Davy was always happy to refer to Sylvia as his friend.
Sylvia wasn't big on friends, but she liked Davy fine enough. It was always nice to feel welcome, even if there was only one person doing the welcoming.