POV District 1 Ludacris Zeffe

Silver and I were escorted onto the train by Himons, cameras catching a glimpse of us as he tried to move us along. Silver ignored the cameras, though she had a smile on her face as she followed Himons. I waved at the cameras, and I knew how smug I looked as I smiled. Himons ended up shoving me on the train, and I turned to give him a playful glare for them to see. Himons got on, and I gave a final wave before the doors closed behind him. "It's like they get more and more cameras every year," He complained, straightening out his clothes.

I stared out the window on the door for a few heartbeats. "That was fun," I proclaimed, before following Silver and Himons further into the car. The car had a bright red-magenta theme, and the full luxuries of every District was crammed into just this one car. All the fancy furniture, the nice food, and the train it's self. It showed Distrit 1, all the food Districts, District 3, District 5, District 6, District 7. It was very interesting how heavily we relied on eachother, just to feed the Capitol's demands. District 1 is probably the nicest of the Districts, but the Capitol still gets way more luxury than we do.

"I'll go find your mentors and send them in here," Himons said, looking around. "They're on the train already. Help yourselves while I'm gone!"

I looked at the strange foods packed up in fancy jars, and decided against them. Silver, on the other hand, started rummaging through different colored nuts and chips. She opened one bottle of something, but gave it a sniff and immediately closed it. Probably alcohol. "Who do you think we'll get as mentors?"

She shrugged. "No idea," She said with a mouth full of food. She took a big swallow before saying, "That stage was packed with mentors. One of us wins, we won't have enough room for all the victors."

"Then they'll just get rid of the oldest one, they've done it before," I replied, falling back onto a couch. One of the doors to the train car opened, and Silver immediately dropped her search and stumbled over and fell onto the couch beside me. A pair of girls filed in, falling back into the couch in front of us. The one in front of Silver was the winner of the 99th, but I couldn't remember her name. The other in front of me didn't look a whole lot older.

"Hey," The girl in front of Silver began. "My name is Exquisite Cryck, and I won the 99th Hunger Games at age seventeen."

"I'm seventeen!" Silver exclaimed, finally not overflowing with snacks in her mouth.

"And I'm Glory Tolk," The girl in front of me continued, ignoring her. "I won the 90th Hunger Games at age fourteen. I will be your mentor," She said, pointing to me.

"And I'll be yours," Exquisite finished, motioning to Silver.

We both nodded. "I'll kind of be mentoring Exquisite at being a mentor at the same time, so," Glory added. "Anyways, we have a tight schedule for the two of you. We'll show you to your rooms, you can mess around there for a while, we'll have dinner, then we're going to watch the Reapings after dinner. We want you to get to sleep as early as you can, so we can get started right away at breakfast." She counted through everything on her fingers, Exquisite watching her and softly nodding.

Having Glory as a mentor gave me a bit better chances than Silver and Exquisite, since she was so inexperienced. Glory stood up, and looked at us when we didn't. "Did I just say we were going to show you your rooms? Let's move it!" She had a kind voice, so it was hard to feel threatened, even though we all did as she told. "Come on," She headed off in the opposite direction the two had come from.

Glory stopped abruptly in front of the first door on the right, and I ran into her back. She looked at me sternly, and I realized she was also giving a look at Silver and Exquisite, who had bumped into each other and were giggling. "This is your room, Ludacris," She informed. "Mine is the first on the left, Silver, yours is the next one on the right, and Exquisite's is the second on the left." We all nodded. "The next cart on is the dining cart. Go there at about 6."

She continued on a ways, stopping at her door. She watched as Silver and Exquisite filed on to their rooms. She turned back, seeing I was still there, and I ducked into my room. I stood right beside my door for a moment. I almost wished the schedule was tighter. I slowly wandered around my room, staring at the ceiling in front of me. I mean, the moving room was just fine, and I didn't have anything against exploring and pressing every single button they had in the entire thing, but I liked having something to do. I never liked having time to myself. Last time I had free time, I had carved a paper weight.

I had a lot of materials at my disposal in here though.

POV District 8 Sulsay Honshye

I wandered down the hall of the train car. I didn't exactly know where the diner car was, but I knew I was about ten minutes late. When I opened the door to the next door, I peered in the window before opening the door. Mortanny, Miryp, and our mentors - Still Perhon and Ineran Alever, were already sitting down. They all turned their heads to look at me, not saying a word. I bit my tongue, quickly slipping into an empty chair on the end of a table. Ineran was my mentor, though he seemed to be showing more interested in Miryp. Of course since she lived with his girlfriend, I couldn't really blame him.

"Well, hello Sulsay," Mortanny greeted, though he was clearly upset that I had been so late. I didn't really understand why all the escorts had a huge deal with being on time.

"Hi." Still was mumbling to himself, pushing the food around on his plate. Ineran was staying extremely silent, keeping an eye on Miryp. It was several minutes of dead silence, of him glancing up at her, before I realized anything. I could see her fork shaking in her hand. I could hear her foot tap the ground and her knee hit the table every so often, giving it away that she was bouncing her leg. She kept glancing out the window, and almost as soon as she did she would dart back to her food. She hadn't eaten anything either.

"We're going to watch the Reapings once everyone's finished," Ineran mentioned eventually, leaning back into his chair.

"Finally someone gets it." I don't know if Mortanny was talking about his schedule or speaking. Mortanny wouldn't understand what we're going through, being from the Capitol. But after however many years he had spent with solemn District 8 tributes, he would understand our reluctance on the latter.

"It's that a...career thing to do?" I asked after a few moments of hesitation.

Ineran shrugged. "Not unless you plan on going as in-depth as they do with their evaluations."

"What do you mean?" Miryp piped in.

"Well," Ineran began, putting his hands behind his head. "We're pretty much just watching them to get a look at the other tributes and look for any possible alliances, I heard that we're going to need them more than ever this year."

"Why?" I pestered.

Ineran gave me a look, upset that I had interrupted him. "I don't know, I just know that if you end up on your own, you're pretty much dead. Anyways," He continued quickly, not wanting to be interrupted again. "The careers...well..."

POV District 1 Ludacris Zeffe

"The other careers for this year are: seventeen-year-old Luipos Ulstrad and twelve-year-old Arale Ulstrad from District 2 and sixteen-year-old Mekyl Clugar and sixteen-year-old Poldra Umenvor from District 4," Glory informed. Himons, Exquisite, Silver, and I were sitting on the couch as Glory paced in front of the TV after we had finished the Reapings. "Luipos and Arale are siblings. We don't know how District 4 will react to a twelve-year-old, and word is she has refused to train, so they could be a wild card. But my suggestion is that you welcome her, because if you get Arale, you get Luipos. And Luipos is a very valuable asset."

"She hasn't trained?" Silver clarified.

Glory nodded, but quickly moved on. "We will try to set up alliances with other tributes, just in case there's any complications. District 3 Eagee Polkimtor seems like a good choice. Completely unafraid of the Games and extremely intelligent."

"What about that other girl, Moria?" I pointed out.

Glory stopped dead in front of me, turning on her heels to look me in the eye. "Not worth it."

"...What do you mean?"

"Eagee has no intentions of allying with Moria. She's very weak-hearted and timid anyway. She has no value to you at all - not even a high-risk target," Glory explained. She then continued on with her pacing. "We do have some high-risk targets. Aldmos Sulorad from District 5. Eighteen, medium build, but has very little control. He's known for being unstable. He could easily go crazy, and crazy tributes are always underestimated - do not make that mistake. I'iem Perech from District 6. Eighteen, very sweet, but extremely protective and strong. If he gets a strong alliance, he will be dangerous."

Glory barely stopped to take a breath, marching across the small room. "Cidet Shyn and Aleas Chemore from District 7. Eighteen and fifteen. Cousins, a rocky relationship, but Cidet is extremely strong and rough. He could be dangerous if he gets a big alliance or a stronger relationship with his younger cousin, who is extremely smart."

"Is that all?" I asked, and Glory took another look at me.

"We're one day in. This is all I know. If you want anything else, arrange it for yourself," She snarled, before marching out. Silver, Exquisite, and I shared a look.

"Well," Himons said, clearly overwhelmed. "That's enough for the night." As he headed out, he motioned for us to follow. I let Silver and Exquisite go before I followed. I would have to apologize to Glory in the morning...if she would accept it. I thought back to the pretty girl I had seen. What she from District 9? 8? Her name started with an M...her last name was familiar. I wondered if she would be worth investigating. Some of the tributes were really underestimated. But she looked so nervous, and she didn't have a strong build.

I did have a bit more respect for Glory taking all this on her own.