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WHO | Ariadne, Elias, and any of the other mentors who want to jump in
WHAT | watching the Games
WHEN | a few nights into the Arena
WHERE | the mentors' green room
WARNINGS / NOTES | none right now; will update as necessary

Ariadne found very quickly that she didn't really enjoy the Games much more outside of the Arena. Of course, at least out here, she could put herself to some use. Getting the odd sponsor gift for some of her more preferred Tributes, those she wanted to go far, and generally ignoring the rest of them.

At that particular moment, she was only paying just enough attention to know exactly what was happening; her other eye was on the rest of the room, keeping watch over the other mentors.

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She really was surprised to hear that she was a favourite, though Arthur had told her once before, in what felt now like a dream, that there was something about her. It had been flattering, though she hadn't been quite sure how to take it; in the end, she'd all but ignored the comment, taking it as a statement of fact, and nothing more. Now it seemed as though she had intrigued the Capitol the way she'd intrigued him, and she wondered if that wouldn't pose a problem or two in the future, if they ever took to picking her brain long enough to learn what she did back home.

"I had no idea," Ariadne admitted, tipping her head to one side, birdlike. "How could you tell?"

She paused a moment then, smiling a little at the admission, "I'm not that surprised. The parties are almost as big a part as the Arenas themselves."