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Who: Azula and Open to All
What: People watching and making herself available.
Where: The Training Center Bar
When: Anytime, pick.
warnings: Nothing yet but give it time.

Before the arena, Azula had never drank. Not seriously really.

Sure the occasional glass of bubbly or wine at one of her fathers business parties, but she had always been so focused on her goals of physical and mental perfection that she had dismissed the opportunity to drink enough to be buzzed or tipsy.

Now of course as the little bottle of Morphling in her pocket reminded her, her mind would never be perfect, so what could some alcohol hurt?

Still she was technically working so every drink she purchased she nursed her drink slowly and lingered over every drop. It would not due to have the newly returned mentor getting drunk in public. But staking out a corner booth in the bar where she could watch everyone and keep an eye out for Sponsors, tributes and other mentors was perfectly reasonable. It was for this reason she chose a booth facing the door where she would be very visible.

She really shouldn't be drinking in the first place given her medication needs. But this was one of the few areas where Azula scoffed at the law and did something she knew was bad for her simply for the case of "Because I want to shut up."

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"Well we will be living in the same suite so it's reasonable to assume that we will even on days when we aren't training together." She smiled back warm and smooth, almost dripping with confidence.

"Looking forward to it I hope?"

"So we're housemates. Great." She finishes off her drink, smiling over the rim. "Don't leave the seat up." Diana waves her hand for attention and gets someone to refill her glass.

"Of course, why wouldn't I be?"

Azula bit back her first instinct to tell Diana to avoid such low brow humor in upcoming interviews and decided there would be time for that later. Instead she just smiled back in an excited and confident way.

"I'm sure we'll grow very close over time. And someday when you're in the winners circle I can hold my head high with pride for having gotten you there."

Diana pulls her hair of the ponytail it was tied up into. "Wow, you have some high hopes there, don't you?"

Smirking, she shakes the dark locks out, long waves tumbling over her shoulders, running her hand through. "You do know I'm not much of a fighter, right?"

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Azula's smirk never faltered though she watched the seemingly casual action of Diana running her fingers through her hair. It was so simple yet it could be a powerful eye catching motion to the right people.

"You can be better. I can make you better." She promised and after a moment "Unless you like having a new horrible death every month or so?

"Well, it's only happened once so far." She gives her hair one last tussle before spreading her arms out across the back of chair behind her and leaning back, talking to the ceiling. "But yeh, I'd like to avoid it."

Azula's smile had a flicker of pride in it, only slightly more then usual.

"Then listen to me, do as I say and you will improve until you no longer will have to worry about losing in the arena. Your superiority will shine through."

A smile pulls at Diana's lip and a small chuckle shakes her shoulders.

"You sound like someone I know."

That bought her a raised eyebrow, "Oh really? Someone worthy of respect I hope?" She could only imagine who in this girls life would want to hone her like a razor.

"They'd like to think that, yeah..." She pulls her head back up and shrugs. "But don't worry about it. That person's old news. And you're all new~"

She chuckled politely.

"As if I would be concerned about it. I am not only new but I assure you, better. And right now I'm your best hope for surviving the Arena and never having to go back."

That sly smirk is back on her lips. "I'll be sure to stick very, very close then."

"Smart girl." She purred and took another sip of her drink.

" Tell me more about yourself. I want to know everything." She insisted in a no nonsense sort of way. She would do this with all her tributes sooner or later but Diana was here now.

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"Everything about me?" Diana let out a very pretty laugh that highlighted the features of her face in a very attractive way.

Azula had to admire whatever skill it was that allowed her to look so perfect while performing what was supposed to be an impulsive action.

"Of course. I'm supposed to help you win. The best way for me to do that is to know everything about you so we can decide best what to work on."

"Ooo, like an assessment?" Diana lifts her leg to cross it over her other one, pressing a fingertip to a full bottom lip in thought.

"Well, I'm not too great at fighting I'm afraid."

Azula bit back a remark about that much being obvious. She had seen the last arena's tapes after all but instead she simply nodded gently keeping her expression relaxed.

"We can fix that. Keep going, what are you good at?"

Diana lets out a dramatic, false sigh and pulls a look of sadness. "Nothing really. I'm so very useless."

Azula rolled her eyes but smirked. "My dear, no one is entirely useless. I assure you. I will find a use for you one way or another."

Waving to the servant Azula signaled them and they brought some snacks for the girls, crunchy salty things and cheesy crispy things as well as a few different dipping plates of various levels of spice.

Dipping a cheesy crispy into a spicy sauce she gestured for Diana to help herself.

"Let's start with your upbringing. What was your life like in your world?"

Diana didn't really need the gesture, she was already licking the excess cheese from her fingers after the first piece.

Eating also helped her avoid the question. She just shrugged as she chewed.

Azula's face fell into dismay "Come now, just start with the basics. I need to know if I'm going to help you avoid your next horribly painful death."

She's putting on a fake pout, those lips jutting out in an oddly adorable fashion. "But talking about my home life is just so boring."

And redundant, after all those psychologists in Coates.

Her mentor was not impressed and the dry look she gave said just how unimpressed she was in a number of ways.

"That's not important. They'll find a way to spice it up. They always do. But I need to know now."

"Why?" Diana raised an eyebrow, plucking another piece off food off the table.

Dipping it in the sauce she added. "Stuff happened, I'm here now. Isn't that most of the people here in a nutshell?"

Azula sighed and took a drink to repress her frustration with the secretive girl "Because every thing from the climate, your home, to how you were raised will play a part in how you became who you are today. The person the audience is supposed to want to see victorious."

Really wasn't it obvious?

"And being your mentor, when I ask you something I would hope for less dancing around the answer. I'm only trying to help."

Edited 2013-09-08 23:47 (UTC)