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

[contagion]

That doesn't guarantee we'll win. That doesn't guarantee we'll survive, Kris, don't you get it? We can't trust anyone else. We have to get through, and that means they all have to die. All of them. [And he's shaking his head now, the mantra he's just muttered no where near enough to quell his distaste. If the gamemakers wanted a scene, well, now they've fucking got it. He doesn't know if it would've been better or worse for them to stick Kris with someone else, someone who would have already put him out of this misery. But who's to say—he can't say he knows what he would've done in a different situation.

He pulls Kris to him, just enough to back them both into the shadow of a tree, and settles there. It's not safe enough, and they'll have to move before too long, but for right now, it's the best he can manage. He's exhausted already, and there's still a damn long way to go.]