Tony Gear- Let the Good Times Roll D6M

I was pretty sure I could do this. Sure, the odds were stiff, but I had confidence. Odds like this would make a lot of people just lose hope. They wouldn't even try to win, and that would give the rest of us a better chance. If I could find some good allies we could help each other through to the endgame, and then there would only be a few people left between me and home. It sounded really ominous when I thought about it that way, like I intended to kill all my allies once there were only a few people left. That wasn't it, really. I knew only one person could win, but I was hoping somehow my allies would get killed along the way in just the right amount that by the end it was just me. Well, that sounded kind of callous, too. I guess really I was just hoping I'd win and that I'd make some allies. How that all worked out was up to the Games.

Alysanne Audren- No Way Down D6F

Lancia was the first to meet me.

"I guess it's been long enough I'm allowed to say I'm related to you," she said. "It won't make much difference, to be honest. I'm old news now. Plenty of shiny new Victors for the Capitol to focus on instead."

"Is Lacey here too?" I asked, not really daring to hope. I knew how wonderful a person Lacey was, but the Capitol probably couldn't imagine her winning.

"Yeah, she's here, too," Lancia said. "I'm not sure if it's for the best or not, but she's here."

"No, I get it," I said, when Lancia looked guilty for saying it. "It would be a lot better if this never happened. I guess it's good for the ones who win, but I think they might say the same thing, too."

Nene Palmer- Swing Vote D6F

Pretty cool I died by getting shot. Still sad I died, but like pretty cool I was one of maybe four people in Games history who died by gunshot. If I got back home and found my own grave from when I was dead, I was going to ask the carver to put a gun on it.

But I should really focus on the Games. Maybe some of my old allies were here, though I didn't know if they'd want to ally again. They were all friends for a long time, and maybe they just allied with me since I was convenient. There were lots of people here, though. I had to be convenient for someone.

Valencia Cadillac- Wandering Souls D6F

"Where's my baby?"

I asked every passing medic until one finally called for Lancia.

"Where's Nico?" I asked as Valencia came into the room.

"He's with Giada. I send money when they need it. She says he's doing great," Lancia said. She seemed entirely uncomfortable and out of her element, trying to help me but knowing there was nothing she could really do.

"Would they let-" I stopped before I finished. Would they let him visit me? But it wasn't that easy. I thought about Nico with Giada. Happy. Unaware he ever even knew another mother. Safe. Even with Romeo gone, Nico was still a target if he was with me. Anyone who knew how rich my father was would know how much he would pay if someone had Nico. No doubt Lancia had Giada stashed somewhere neither kidnappers nor my father knew where he was. But anywhere I went, there were eyes on me.

"I can see if they'll let him visit. It's a long shot, but they might, for PR," Lancia said.

"No," I said, my voice echoing in my ears. "I think I'd better not."

Ferrari Benz- Into Thin Air D6F

Another day, another resurrection. Time to go do some crazy stuff and then die in a blaze of glory.

"Is Katrina here?"

Katrina and I sat in her room chatting like the two old friends we were.

"So you didn't keep going after I died?" Katrina asked.

"I would have, I really would have, but Titian shot me and tried to pull out my guts, so I died to spite him," I said.

"Okay, fair," Katrina said.

"You're not supposed to remember that," the medic said, giving us a weird look.

"Oh, sorry," I said. "Uhhh... we won't tell anyone?"

"Guess it's a bit late now," the medic said. She shrugged and went back to work.

"So anyway..."

Volvo Courvaile- Child's Play D6M

They could really just fix us all and they didn't. Since I was resurrected, I had an entirely new body. Every bit of damage I'd done to it was gone. Scientifically speaking, it was like I'd never touched drugs once. All that rehab I went through, all the agony from withdrawals, all of that was entirely unneeded. The capitol could just print a new body and put someone in it, fixing everything that had ever happened to them. But they didn't. The only time they used it was so they could kill someone twice. I guess I should be thankful they hadn't made me still addicted. They'd certainly proven it wasn't beneath them.

Sofia Ferrari- A Night to Remember D6F

In bocca al lupo.

It certainly didn't seem to be the case for me. I hadn't had good luck since I could remember. Not even enough to survive the Bloodbath. Maybe that meant I was owed some. I wasn't sure it worked that way, but it was just about my best hope. I was a small, untrained, pretty timid girl with no allies. I had as much chance as a snowball in Hell, as they say. But then, it wouldn't be the first time. Turns out Hades won my Games. I certainly wouldn't have seen it coming. And there were others, like Toby or Cornflower. Every once in a while, the snowball came out on top. Maybe we were due one- from what I'd heard, it had been mostly Careers and heavy hitters winning lately. Maybe it was time for the little guys to have our moment. It was pretty naive to pin my hopes on luck, but I couldn't think of anything else I had.

Maxson Deloria- Swing Vote D6M

One thing I knew for sure. The Book of Truths was nothing but bullshit. I'd been afraid to finally say it, but I was done. I knew God was there. I knew he cared about us and loved us. But he wasn't in that book, and he wasn't the one who made our church. When he didn't strike me down for thinking it, I knew I was right. I'd have to start from the beginning, then. Everything I thought I knew about God was a lie, made up by some disgusting pervert who had to legitimize sex slavery instead of just cheating on his wife like a respectable charlatan. I had to entirely restart my search for God in a country that hated him and did everything they could to destroy any belief in him. Well, they could kill me a hundred times. The truth was the truth and I would find it.