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Who: Yukiya and OPEN
Where: Tribute Tower
When: During the first week of the new Arenas.
What: Yukiya arrives as a new mentor after the Arena has started. He gets accustomed to being back in Tribute Tower and tries to get a hand on how things run now.
Warnings: None yet

The District Suite was painfully silent when Yukiya brought in his things. He took over a room for a mentor and unpacked right away. He had only brought one suitcase up with him, only of the things from District 7. His new clothes were due to arrive later that day.

After everything was settled in, he moved down to the main common areas. Some of the mentors were away, doing work on behalf of their Tributes in the two Arenas, though there were still some here too. There was a group with Stylists and other staff too, all watching the Games as they took a break or ate or did something else to waste time before their next meeting. Yukiya wasn't sure if he was allowed to join them or not. He was a mentor now, but he thought that maybe they wouldn't welcome him within their ranks.

Instead, he sort of stood off to the side nervously and watched the images on the televisions. The desert one was difficult for him to watch, so when it came onto the screen he would look away. It was too much like the Arena he had been in and the memory of it made him feel a little sick.

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"No. Everyone else."

"So then.... the sponsors?"

"Yeah." He sighs, scowling. "They're... They're like Yvette." No, there's no explanation of who she is.

Yukiya is quiet for a moment. "Um... Should I know who that is?" he asks, with real worry about that.

"My stepmom." The boy says it with venom. "She's dead."

"Oh. I'm sorry," Yukiya said. He wondered if he should mention that his parents were gone too, just to show that he understood, but then he second guessed that out of concern for changing the topic to him. Instead, he just ended up looking sympathetic but unsure how to fix it.

"Don't be," Kevin replies. "She was a bitch. I hate her."

He stares at Yukiya. "So... Who're you here for?"

"I'm... I'm for District 7. I just arrived."

He frowns, confused, not angry. "Then why aren't you in there?"

"Oh... Oh, I was in there before. I mean I just arrived here again. I was somewhere else before. I'm a Mentor."

"Oh. Which floor?"

"Seven. I'm from District 7."

"I'm on Two."

"Oh. That's a nice District isn't?"

"I don't know? I've never been there."

"Oh right! I forget that you new Tributes haven't seen your Districts... I went there once, during my Victory Tour. I didn't see much of it, but it's a nice place."

That brings a curious look. "Tell me about it." Not very polite but it's not mean-spirited, either. Kevin just doesn't do manners anymore.

"Well, they have a big mountain that they use to train Peacekeepers. It's really impressive. They're a lot more wealthy than District 7 too." To be honest, Yukiya had felt like they didn't like him much considering how he had won, but at least it had been nice to see what the other Districts were like.

"Oh. Peacekeepers." He doesn't bother trying to hide the shudder. He's quite happy he hasn't had to go there now.

"You, um, you haven't had a good time with them?" Yukiya asks with a slight frown. "I'm sorry."

I don't talk to them." He won't admit it but they scare him. Without any actual interactions with them.

"I don't blame you," he agreed. "They can be a little intimidating, but that's they're job. You have to make sure everyone is safe."

"Yeah, well, who keeps us safe from them?"

"Oh... What do you mean?" Yukiya seemed uncertain for a moment. "You don't have to be safe from them do you?"

Kevin shrugged. "Shouldn't. But I thought they weren't supposed to do anything to us out of the Arena, either."