Purge The Poison - MARINA
"Need to purge the poison, show us our humanity"

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Getting out of the elevator, Glimmer and Marvel are already there. I walk over to try and make some small talk, although it's kind of hard too, I mean, I'm gonna kill them later so it's kind of awkward.

The rest of the careers get here and then training starts. I head over to the bow and arrow section. I can feel Glimmer staring a hole through my head as I get set up. God, after the competition this girl can't leave me alone.

I shoot a few arrows at moving targets, hitting the bullseye on all of them. Glimmer rolls her eyes before speaking more softly than I've heard. "How. How do you do it? How did you do it?" She says, and is that a hint of.. vulnerability...in her voice? "Inspired by the fear of being average," I pause, turn around to look at her. "Like you," I say, keeping my face expressionless.

I walk away, at least everyone but Glimmer is working. Marvel is working at the spear section, Clove at knife throwing, Cato at swords, and Raven is at the axe area. I walk over to the knife-throwing section. "Can I have a go?" I ask Clove "Yeah." she says. She hands the knives over and walks away.

Before I can start, a loud thud silences the room. It's Peeta Mellark, the boy from 12. He fell really hard on his back from the rope course, it looked like it hurt. The rest of the gang crowded in front of the swords, I walked over and joined them, they all had evil smirks on their faces, mine was a hard, expressionless stare.

Katniss then went over to Peeta, bent down, and whispered something, I couldn't make out what it was. He quietly argued back, before he got up and walked over to the weight rack. He picked up a 200-pound weight and threw it at the spear rack. There was a lot of force in the throw, so it knocked over most of the spears.

We all look at each other, you have to earn respect, and he did. He earned my respect, at least. Clove and I exchange looks before we walk over to the sections we were just at. I pick the knives back up and start. I hit the moving targets on the bullseye, or close to it.

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When I'm finished, I look around at the training center. Everyone is doing their own thing. I see Glimmer in the bow and arrow section. I scoff and walk over. There are a few arrows at the very edge of some of the targets and a lot on the floor. "This, Glimmer." I say, eyeing the arrows on the floor "Is why I get the bow and arrow, and not you."

The look on her face when she turned around was priceless, the memory lives rent-free in my head. "Fine! If you're so good, you give it a go!" She sasses. "Fine" I smile, grabbing the bow from her hand. I shoot the remaining arrows, hitting the bullseye every single time. When I'm done, I place the bow in her hands and walk away.

I see Clove smirking at me. I give her a high five as I pass her. I haven't checked on the boys. I've been avoiding Raven the whole day due to the events of last night and this morning. Cato and Marvel have just been doing their own thing.

I take note of other tributes and their talents. The redhead from 5 is very smart and sneaky, and so is the girl from 11.

Clove and I work on other survival methods for the rest of the training time before we head up. We still haven't talked about last night. I guess we aren't going to. We need to. We will.

No surprise when the elevator opens Annie and Finnick are there, and they don't look happy to see me.

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