Training day 1
Travis Stoll, District 3
I've come up with a strategy. Training Day 1 is about survival stuff—making fires, healing, poisonous berries, that stuff. Day 2 is about weapons—spears, swords, battle axes… Day 3 is about learning about the other tributes. Such as what their weaknesses are—maybe making allies. I'm at the healing station. I'm supposed to be stitching a dummy's arm, but instead I'm doodling on the skin with fake blood. The instructor looks over at my work and sighs.
"Did you consider the camouflage station?" She asks me. I walk over there. Unfortunately 5 tributes are already there. The girl from 10, both from 5, girl from 6, and the boy from 9. I take a seat next to the girl from 10, she looks pretty advanced.
"Hi," I say, "I'm Travis." The girl looks up from her work and smiles, ever so slightly, one would hardly know what feeling was playing on her lips.
"I'm Rachel," she says.
In the next 45 minutes we have not only made an alliance, but mastered the mediocre camouflage. After saying good bye to the instructor for camouflage, we decide to make fires. We head over to the corner where the fire making instruction is. The instructor isn't there, but laminated sheets of paper tell us the basics. The fire making station is set up as a forest, spare logs and sticks next to a pit and log. I take a seat next to the pit, and place some sticks down. Making a fire is harder than it looks. I'm wrapped up in my own little world until I smell smoke. I look up to see Rachel tending a perfect little fire.
"How did you do that!?" I asked, amazed. She pointed to a box of matched nearby.
"Is that even aloud?" I said. She nodded. She pointed to the laminated sheet furthest to the left.
"That sheet said if you can't or finished making a fire, then work on tending it." She pointed out. Oh. We go to the edible plants station next.