As Friends {Jayne/Alja} Day 1

[kap]

I'm caught up in your expectations
You're trying to make me live your dream

~

In escaping the bloodbath, I heard one cannon sound. It made me wonder who it could possibly be, and in all honesty, although I hated to admit that I wished for someone’s death, I hoped that it was Nico, just so that I didn’t have to deal with conflict with him again later. Unfortunately, I doubted that that was the case. He was actually quite strong and intelligent, from what I could tell, and I hated to admit that, since he was such a jerk.

During the fight at the cornucopia, I’d noticed someone swing at me, but her attack missed as I ran away from it all. I recognized her as the girl from One, but I couldn’t recall her name. Regardless, it made me wonder what she’d done when she couldn’t hit me. Did she attack someone else? Had she run away? Was she the one whose cannon had sounded? I suppose I wouldn’t know any of those except for the latter until tonight. That is, if I lived that long.

My journey away from the mass of fighting was silent aside from my heavy breathing, up until the point of reaching a very dead looking area of land. On this stretch of land were only a few trees and shrubs, all of which looked to me as if they were on their last days of living. It was ironic, given that most of the tributes in the arena were on their last days of living, too. All except for one of us, that is.

I just had to hope that I was that one survivor.

When I reached that barren area of the arena, I ended up speaking with a girl named Alja who’d journeyed away from the Cornucopia in the same direction as me. I was surprised that she was peaceful toward me, especially given that we didn’t know each other. We began to speak with one another, discussing a variety of different things, such as our families, just to get acquainted with one another. She seemed rather friendly to me, especially given that she gave me some of her armor that she had received through sponsorship from the people of the Capitol, and also made me a spear out of some firewood that she had gathered.

I also gathered some firewood and looked through the sponsorship items I’d received, putting on the armor that I’d gotten and putting some of the other items in my new backpack that had a picture of an interesting yet cute creature printed on it. I was glad to have someone that I could consider a friend, at least a little bit, in this arena.

”We’re working together now, then? As allies? As friends?” I asked Alja. I gave her a smile as I asked her this. I could always hope that that was the case, right?

lyrics: "Silent Scream" by Anna Blue

Jayne tries to catch a word:
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[success]

OOC:
-Receives items from sponsorship
-Receives shin guards, helmet and improvised spear from Alja
-Collects firewood

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[Alja Gavrilovic D10F]

note: this post was originally made on the wrong account because Kap the tribsitter derped.


Alja Gavrilovic

When my name boomed over the crowd gathered in District Ten, it was a sign. It was as if fate had been what called my name, rather than the District’s escort, that day. The goddesses had selected me to fight, and to prove myself for them. The day of the bloodbath at the Cornucopia, however, I did not fight. Rather, I fled, a girl of a few years younger than me tailing behind me. The two of us ran from the vicinity, practically strangers in those moments. Despite not knowing one another, we did not harm each other, simply running in the same direction with the same thought and hope in mind; survival.

Upon fleeing the bloodbath, the two of us peacefully and silently arrived in the same area of the arena, having travelled together without initially intending to do so. The area of the arena in which we arrived was a barren and flat stretch of Earth. Here, in the arena, the goddesses had no power. This landscape of very little greenery made that clear, holes that appeared to have been burrowed in the ground threatening to swallow whatever may fall into them.

This girl, I discovered, as we eventually spoke to one another, was Jayne Ashbrook-Laws, the female tribute from District Twelve. She seemed to have a kind soul, not looking for conflict. If anything, it seemed like she wanted to be my friend, and although friendship was not my top priority in the arena, I decided that I would be pleased to be on good terms with the girl.

---

As we sat and spoke, telling one another a bit about our lives, we were interrupted by what I’d like to consider a gift from the goddesses. I knew, however, that it likely wasn’t, as, like I had realized before, they have little to no power here in the arena.

I opened the package attached to the silver parachute, removing the items within. Despite not having conversed much with Jayne, I decided that I should give her some of the armor that I had received, as, to me, it seemed that she may be physically weaker than myself, due to her young age (she had told me that she was merely fifteen).

Jayne received some items of sponsorship as well.

After examining our gifts we’d received from the people of the Capitol that’d decided to sponsor us, Jayne and I both started to gather some firewood. I made Jayne a spear and gave it to her, hoping that it would help us in surviving if she also had a weapon to use, as I’d gotten something to fight with in my sponsorship, and she hadn’t. We chatted as we did this, all the while keeping an eye out for any potential danger. Surely, if the goddesses’ powers were as strong here as they were in other places, we wouldn’t have to worry as much about danger, but in the arena of the Eighty-First Annual Hunger Games, no one was completely safe from danger.

You always had to watch your back.

I looked to Jayne as she spoke to me, asking my a question.

”We’re working together now, then? As allies? As friends?” she asked with a smile.

I nodded in response.

”Sounds good to me.”

OOC:
-receives items from sponsorship
-gives shin guards and helmet to Jayne
-improvises spear from firewood and gives it to Jayne
-collects more firewood

[kap]

I'm caught up in your expectations
You're trying to make me live your dream

~

Alja and I sat for some time, talking with one another after she'd answered my question as to if were friends or allies or not.

”Sounds good to me,” she said with a nod. I smiled when she told me this. It was good to have a friend, or even just an ally; someone to protect me and fight alongside me, especially in a place like this.

"Awesome," I told her with the smile still upon my face. "I'm glad to have someone I can call a friend, and definitely given the circumstances of where we are."

Sitting and chatting in the arena- getting to know one another- it wouldn't last long, and I think both of us knew that, but that's okay. I would make the most of the situation while I had the chance to do so. I wasn't letting the Capitol use me like a pawn. No, at least, not if I could help it. They'd surely much rather have had us killing or have gotten killed in the mess of a bloodbath that happened at the Cornucopia, but they didn't get their wish, and that makes me happy.

When Alja and I stopped talking for a little bit, I started to look through the items I was given by the generous sponsors, once again. I thought to myself, what would Carter think of where I was right now, and the fact that I hadn't fought in the bloodbath. Would he be concerned for me, or would he be proud? Would he be worried, or perhaps all of those things?

"I hope I make you proud, Carter," I said in a low voice. I wasn't sure if Alja had heard me at first, as it hadn't been my intent for her to, but she smiled at me when I looked up and in her direction.

---

After a little bit more time passed, I spoke up.

"I think we should get moving, maybe away from this area," I said to Alja. "What do you say?"

lyrics: "Silent Scream" by Anna Blue

OOC:
-Jayne leaves the thread/area and heads to the Grass Plains

[Alja Gavrilovic D10F]

Alja Gavrilovic

"Awesome," Jayne told me, smiling all the while. "I'm glad to have someone I can call a friend, and definitely given the circumstances of where we are." I smiled back to her. It was good to have a friend here, and she was right. Given teh circumstances of where we were, it was definitely good to have people who liked you, rather than those who wanted to kill you.

"I agree," I told her. "Best to have friends rather than enemies."

---

We spoke for a little while more before Jayne seemed to go off into her own little world, looking through her sponsorship goodies, and at one point, speaking to herself in a soft and quiet tone that I don't think she expected me to hear.

"I hope I make you proud, Carter," she had said.

When I think of who's watching over me in this arena, I think of the Goddesses that I believe in, even if their power does seem to be limited or perhaps even nonexistent here. I still believe that they are watching, regardless. When Jayne thinks of who's watching over her in this arena, it appeared to me that it was her brother, Carter, a tribute from last year's Games who the Capitol had spared and allowed to live on in his home District of Twelve. He, too, has no power over what happens in here, but she still seemed to confide in him. I connected with her on that, in a way, I suppose.

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"I think we should get moving, maybe away from this area," Jayne inquired of me. "What do you say?"

I nodded.

"Let's go," I told her.

OOC:
-Alja leaves the thread/area and heads to the Grass Plains