Legion Building

[gluteus]

Who| Maximus and OPEN
What| Maximus wants to build an army
Where| around the capitol
When| across the week before the arena
Warnings/Notes| None so far!


Maximus had been formulating a plan.

Perhaps plan was too strong a word. Commanding was in his blood, it was what his entire career, his entire life had been based on. So he didn't even realize it when he had started to work out the logistics in his head. It wasn't until that he was devising particular strategies for the arena - strategies that weren't just for him, but for a team, for an army that he knew what he had to do.

The best way to ensure survival, and to silently rebel against the capitol, was to stick together. Was to find men and women that he could count on, that he could trust with his life, and that could trust him with theirs. Keep them all alive as long as possible. And last out the Arena together, and refuse to take each other down.

He even  had an idea of who could fit that bill.

All it took was finding them.

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Shopping Center The Districts

[lassoftruthiness]

Probably the strangest part of all of this, so far, was the amazing amount of free time Diana found herself with now. Training could only take up so much of it, and not everyone was so willing to sit down and discuss politics or explain the history of this world without all the obvious censorship.

Since she's got the time and they're not allowed to visit the Districts they're supposed to be representing, she's at the shopping center, curious to see how the Capitol views the Districts. So far, in the section of stores for 5, she's mostly found batteries and pinwheels.

[gluteus]

She wasn't entirely new to him. They'd never spoken, but he'd seen her in the training area. He always had a keen eye for anyone who went there and looked like they knew what they were doing - and she certainly did.

He wasn't scouting for anything in particular when he went out that afternoon, but he couldn't help but notice her as she walked down the street. So he decided to finally speak to her.

He walked up until he was next to her, casually strolling alongside, not even looking at her directly when he said in a calm, but quiet voice: "You're a new tribute, correct?"

[lassoftruthiness]

Diana took the hint and kept her face turned away as he spoke, examining the shop windows curiously. "I am," she said, cautious but open. She had seen his face, briefly, and recognized that he was one of the more experienced. "My name is Diana."

[gluteus]

"Maximus."

He kept walking as he spoke, though he did glance at her, offering her a small smile. His posture was casual but it was impossible to remove the tight clip of military precision from his strides.

"I've seen you. In the training centre. You're not new to the fight."

[lassoftruthiness]

She nodded back with a smile of her own, still wary, but this didn't appear to be about threats or boasts about the Arena to come, anymore than it appeared to be a random, casual conversation. "I have some experience, yes," she said, looking him up and down with a quick glance. "I'm not the only one."