Autumn "Lyla" Alby's POV

I walked quickly to the train, when I got there I managed too get inside even though the lights had blinded me. I was greeted by 2 servants with trays of neon fruit. Espen snagged a bluish piece of something the density of a pear. His eyes flashed open wider and he grabbed for more. He ate a few pieces but then seemed a bit ashamed, I would be too. I wonder what the capitol did too it?

Espen Seffron's POV

The blue fruit was so amazing, but then I realized this fruit wasn't from district 11. The capitol made this mutated fruit, the capitol was the reason 23 children will be dead by next month. I would probably be one of them.

I didn't have time to feel sorry for myself, I had to find our mentor if I was gonna get home to my sisters and brother.

"Do you know where Julius is?" I asked Lyla and the Avoxes at once. The look on her face told me she didn't but she still gave me an answer.

"Probably the mentor car, that's what Selkirk always told me." I had no idea who Selkirk was, but one of the Avoxes knew the car, he pointed down the hall to his left.

"Thank you." We both started walking in that direction.

Lyla's POV

I was pleased with Espen for getting directions to our mentor; he seemed like a very nice person. I couldn't let him get to me, my parents told me too trust no one.

We find a car with a locked door, I knocked, and a young man answered, he was about 25, and was quite handsome.

He chuckles, "Why hello there tributes, I was just about to come pay you a visit." He seemed gentle but strong, I knew he could help me. "Shall we go to dinner?" a digital wall clock said it was almost 4.

"Isn't it a little early?" He smiles.

"Yes I suppose, would you like to chat?" Espen nods and takes a seat in a cushioned chair, Julius soon joins him. "Will you be joining us, Autumn is it?"

"I go by Lyla," I wanted to talk with him but not with Espen listening, "No, I… I want to take a nap. He nodded.

An Avox showed me back to my room.

Espen Seffron's POV

"So Espen, I assume this is a strategy meeting." I nod. "ah, well what do you know about chemicals?" I stare at him blank. Chemicals? I can't help but remember the elaborate trap, I had watched him build on screen when I was 5.

"Almost nothing, I can manage smoke and mild acid, but I am pretty good at hunting." I noticed a hint of disappointment in his eyes.

"I will try my best but I'm not sure how much help I'll be." I experienced my own inkling of disappointment in my mentor, not many have won using chemicals, most of the ones that had were from 3, I guess district 6 was the perfect place too learn about chemicals, if you knew how, and if you cared.

Lyla's POV

"Chemicals, why the hell would I know anything about freaking chemicals?" I hear Espen mumble as he stalks silently too his room. I wait a minute and sprint towards Julius's car, I wanted his advice immediately.

When I reached his door it was 5:30; almost dinner time. I knocked and let myself in, Julius was almost standing. "Lyla, I had a feeling you'd be coming, alone." A smile creeps across my lips. "Do you know anything about chemicals?"

"How too make 'em, how too use 'em, I know tons." His face lights up, I remembered he won using chemicals.

"Perfect. Won't you walk too dinner with me?" I nodded and we headed down the hall. "So Lyla, I think you should angle your time in the games around a romance. What do you think of that?" I was taken slightly a back by this because I hadn't ever had a boyfriend, I didn't want to mess up on camera.

"With Espen?" I was hoping he would say yes because I could talk too him in private.

"Um, no actually, I was hoping you would go for a boy from a different district, if that's ok with you?" I was ok with this because I was coming too the revelation that Espen was 2 years younger than me.

"Its fine, he's too young for me anyway."

"Yes but of course, if there's anyone your interested in after we watch the reapings, I can see what their mentor's have said about them on our message board." I was surprised they had a message board, but I was more surprised he wanted me too start looking for a boyfriend a few hours after I had brought myself into this.

"Sure." We reached the dinning room and took our seats. Espen soon joined us.

Dinner was served; it was the most amazing meal I had seen since Julius won and the whole district was given a feast. Another platter of the neon fruit, I saw Espen eyeing it nervously. I took a piece and he must have decided it was ok because he began heaping it onto his plate.

The fruit was sweet and left tartness in your mouth I quite enjoyed.

Marylyn Nothul, our escort, came in then. She was a plump woman with purple hair and swirly tattoos on her arms. "Hello everybody, I give my congratulations for being tributes, I will do my best too get you sponsors." She seemed nice enough, but she was from the capitol. "Julius, sit up straight or you'll weaken your back." I let out a giggle; she was a woman that believed in order.

"Yes, yes Mary, calm down." I could tell he knew her on a personnel level. I tried too keep my eyes from drifting back and forth between them. Julius noticed this quickly, "She was my escort."

"Yes, you and Dia, you really were quite the couple." A frown crosses his face, and I know he misses her, even though love and friendship is condemned by the games.

"Ah yes, would anybody like spirits or shall we stick with punch?" I must have made a face because he nodded and told the servant punch.

We went into a old-fashioned lounge, it even had a DVD player, how laughable. Julius grabbed a silver disk and popped it into a small drawer. He pressed a few buttons and, fuzzy at first then clearer, district 1 appeared on the screen.

I was watching for possible love interests but had a vague sense that I needed too be looking for allies as well, but of course all the tiny children interest me. I had a certain weakness for helpless creatures.

A few boys interested me, especially the one from district…

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