Eluviani walked through the forest. The ground was uneven and hard to walk on but he wouldn't have noticed if he tried. He was going to the Cornucopia, he hoped. A Feast. Supposedly something he needed was waiting for him there.
What did he need? Heck, what didn't he need? Food and water? Well, he couldn't complain, he had managed to salvage some supplies from that District 4 guy. He didn't remember his name.
Curiously enough, that was what he felt the most guilty about. He hadn't killed him but... No. He had killed him. Enter may have swung the sword, but his blood was on Eluviani's hands.
Why? Why had he done that? He had promised to only attack in self-defense. What kind of sick game was he playing at? Forcing another to take a life for him. He wondered who had it worse. The District 4 guy, who had died, or Enter, who had been forced to kill him.
At least he had lost the sword during the whole ordeal. That had been a small relief, at first, but the sponsors. They had been all to quick in replacing his weapon. He felt the axe in his hand, and it seemed too heavy. A wood handle, a metal blade, a life he had taken, and a life he had ruined. Too heavy.
He wanted to say he didn't care. He surely was as good as dead for his family, after that... incident. Might as well die for real. But he was scared. Without any right to be, he was still scared to die.
Eluviani looked up and saw that he had arrived. There it was, the place where it had all begun, not three days ago. It was quiet. Dangerously quiet. He tried to see what it was that he was supposed to take. It was a sorry sight honestly. Just a bunch of basic supplies, and some memoirs from fallen tributes. The higher ups were going to help, but not too much. Wouldn't want to ruin the show.
Then he saw it. A staff, leaning against the Cornucopia itself. Long, and heavy. And blunt. A weapon that wasn't meant to draw blood.
Of course it couldn't be for him, could it? The organizers knew he had a weapon already, a more lethal one, and surely making the coming battles less bloody wasn't exactly in their best interest.
And yet, it called to him. Eluviani found himself running towards it after waiting for a chance. He managed to get to it uninterrupted. There had been a skirmish by the center as he waited but still, he thought it would be more, eventful. Maybe the rest were as scared to come out as he was.
He dropped the axe, a trade of sorts, and took the staff. He didn't care if the next person started their own bloodbath with it. Right now, he just wanted a chance to stop his. He ran with his new weapon in hand, and a sad hope to not make more mistakes. Even if the ones he had already made were unforgivable.