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Zephyr Almon, 13
Celeste, it turned out, had been sorted into District Ten. There was some cruel irony in that. There had been a girl like her from the real District Ten not so long ago. Zephyr had watched her on the holoprojector in his rooms and wondered what might happen if anyone ever discovered Celeste's abilities or that she was like that girl and her scary ways. He'd told her, back then, that she needed to be... less her and more normal. Celeste, of course, hadn't listened. Sometimes Zephyr wondered if she entirely lived on their plane of existence. She was always so... distant.
"Are you having fun?" Zephyr asked. That was why he'd brought her, after all. To try to teach her how to have fun. Behave like a normal teenager, a normal sister.
Celeste glanced about herself. "This is a place of danger. We should pull the lever."
Zephyr sighed. So much for being normal. "Look, just– Go with it, okay? Tomorrow we'll do what you want to do."
Which, knowing Celeste, would be to stand in the park and stare at trees. That was just the Celeste thing to do.
She looked at him with her pale eyes, and he knew her well enough to know she was about to come out with something creepy.
"There will be no tomorrow Zephyr."
Well. That was somehow worse than he expected. He took her arm. They'd find no allies with Celeste being... Celeste, "Come on. Since we're not joining a bigger alliance, let's go choose training stations."
Silverie Erilea Amarendaje, 14
Around them, the other players were chatting and falling into alliance groups. Silverie made her way over to Emeria at the District Eleven chariot. She grinned at seeing her. "Look at us matching. The field worker and the lumberjack."
Silverie raised their fake axe. The plastic blade swooshed through the air. "It's not a bad costume. And the audience must like it; I'm already at twenty six sponsor points."
"Nice. I'm only at nineteen."
"That's not too bad. You just have to do well in training."
And Emeria was good enough in training that she ought to get a decent score both there and in private sessions. She'd definitely outscore enough of the newbies.
"Shouldn't be too hard."
"You see anyone else you want to ally with?" Emeria asked.
Silverie shook their head. "Not yet. The girl in Seven has other allies, apparently, and the boys came in a group."
And they preferred smaller alliances. With two of them, another two allies maximum. That gave them a safe number, not too big to be unwieldy, but big enough that they had some safety in numbers.
"What about you?"
"Iridescence wants a bloodbath truce for her and her brothers, but she's already got a bigger alliance. The boys are no good."
Silverie shrugged. "Well, I guess we don't need other allies. Or we can find someone else."
"Keep watch for now then?"
"Sure, sounds good."
Iridescence Sterling, 17
Olinnea had happily agreed to a truce alliance. Not a proper alliance, she already had Uriah and Charisma, but one where none of their allies would kill each other in the first day. After that though, it was free reign.
Phoenix didn't look like she was having much fun, and part of Iridescence wanted to say something, but if the Gilmores saw them together they'd work it out and then everything would be ruined. Phoenix did at least seem to have made allies with one of the boys sorted into Twelve. Hopefully she'd made a friend. She needed more friends. She spent too much time doing maths and not enough time socialising. She'd been so much more fun when she was smaller. How many times had they had to rescue her from the train tracks behind their house? She'd loved to see the trains come in, and once snuck into the train yard to try and climb on the carriages. Then, one day, all of a sudden, she'd decided books were better than trains and engineering was better than games, and nothing her older siblings could do would convince them otherwise.
Luminescence looked infinitely relieved to be away from Artemis Gilmore. Not that Iridescence could blame him. Gilmore was unbearable, thinking she was so much better than everyone else. Radiance, meanwhile, had managed to recruit two of those sorted into Five with him, Etheria Arquette and Jasper Fairbanks. Both were tall, strong older players that would hopefully be of some help.
With the alliance situation all sorted, they stepped through the door to begin the training stations.
Alliance 1: Luminescence, Radiance, Iridescence, Etheria, Jasper.
Alliance 2: Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Wonder
Alliance 3: Sorcha, Luminita, Calpurnia, Marcellina
Alliance 4: Silverie, Emeria
Alliance 5: Zephyr, Celeste
Alliance 6: Phoenix, Cormac
Loners: Vivaldi, Hortensia, Maximillian, Andreas
Other Alliances:
Alliance 7: Thorin, Magnus, Harmony, Octavia
Alliance 8: Venice, Julius
Alliance 9: Sabrina, Justice
Alliance 10: Cyan, Plutus
Alliance 11: Angelica, Araminta
Alliance 12: Olinnea, Uriah, Charisma