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[buildingreality]

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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[nofunandgames]

"Good." He smiled, biting his lip in a way he knew many people found very charming.

"There's this little place I can take you to. Great seafood. Assuming you like seafood."

This was, if he ignored their circumstance, actually a little enjoyable.

[buildingreality]

"I like it well enough," Ariadne allowed, tucking a stray lock of her hair behind one ear. Her focus was on him now, rather than the screens. It wasn't like anything was really happening anyway.

And besides, it really was considerably better than the Games themselves. More pleasant.

"There are pluses to having lived here for a while, I guess."

[nofunandgames]

He laughed softly.

"In some ways I'm just as new here as you all. With locations and all that. Before this..." he waved his hand vaguely, behind him. "We were usually only here for a month or so a year. Most of us. Unless someone called us here."

And wouldn't he love to be sent home right now.

[buildingreality]

"And now you actually live here. Quite the change, though that must be just another way you're just as new as us. It's not like it's been that long since such a major change took place." She could remember vividly her first Arena, after all. Still, even Limbo was preferable to that time; the Capitol wasn't much better.

"Still, you know your way around at least a little bit. I wouldn't mind learning it a bit better," she pointed out mildly.

[nofunandgames]

"I can show you around. What I know at least. It's a big city, lots of dark corners."

A warning, or a hint? He wasn't even sure which.

[buildingreality]

Either way, she was willing to take it.

"Thank you. It's considerably easier with a guide than having to run around learning the ropes myself." Not that she was adverse; she'd already gone to the trouble of exploring the entire training centre, figuring out where each and every camera was. The rest of the Capitol was hardly a step up to someone who built escape route upon escape route into her every maze.

[nofunandgames]

"We can figure it out."

He smiled, warmly at her, before the room burst into action as two tributes game into contact. That's right, death match and all that.

[buildingreality]

She returned his smile, feeling a more pleasant sense of comfort budding in her at the strange situation; she imagined that it wasn't just what it seemed like - things rarely were - but she would go with it all the same.

Tucking her hair behind one ear, Ariadne's attention returned back to the screen, noting with some disappointment that the Tributes weren't any of hers.