WAR GAMES

[shinsengumi]

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This year, you will be participating in teams. Your teams, as sponsored, are as follows:

Aeva and Ystelle; Ashleigh and Larsen; Aubrey and Kieran; Brigitte and Ellias; Cabel and Joss; Cyrel and Hollingworth; D'Ivann and Helene; Drael and Kristopher; Griffith and Xian; Fila and Lisette; Indra and Zacharius; Ivy and Reece; Kol and Laurence; Leonel and Solus; Lucinde and Visvaldis; Malis and Vox; Oberin and Odette; Shryke and Siegfried; Talbot and Thane.

Should both members of a team survive, you will both be permitted to leave the arena alive. May the odds be ever in your favour...

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Comments

[narcotism]

[To be perfectly fair, he wouldn't mind dying on his own and saving Larsen the trouble of arguing with him, but he's not about to say that. He can't expect his would-be teammate to live through this, not with Larsen participating and only one or two winners permitted, but all the same, he wants as little to do as possible with the young man's death, and that means telling him only one thing.]

Stay as far away from him as you can. Even if you tell him I sent you away, he won't let you go.

[He ignores Laurence's outstretched hand, instead pushing himself upward with effort and turning his back to the young man to study what he can see of the sky. Careless 'playing', but he was never going to win this game.]