The Stormfather

"I'd better not leave. I told my... maybe-kinda-teammate that I would meet him here after he... finished another tribute. I... I just didn't want to see that, so I came over here."

Eventuri takes a way-too-long moment to ponder. And ponder. And ponder. And then like two minutes later he starts digging downwards with his hands. "There has to be water somewhere." The determination in his voice spooks him slightly. "No, I wasn't able to get anything at the start. I just ran."

"I didn't get any water. Or anything. Thanks for the apple." Eventuri decides to trust this person because he wants food. He takes a large bite out of the apple. It hurts in his dried out throat.

"Good. Is this apple safe to eat?"

"That's a complex question." Eventuri answers. "But I won't kill you. Unless you try to kill me."

He sighs, considering the berries in his pocket, but then... "Hello? Tree? Are you sentient?" Eventuri looks around, and bends down to pick up the apple warily.

He (You'll never guess) Puts them in his pockets. Mostly as a last resort. Maybe I can test them on Ceru. Either way, the result is good. He immediately scolds himself for those thoughts, and tries to slip into the calm mindset he has when pondering philosophical questions. He cannot calm down.

Eventuri goes towards the berries and inspects them to see if he recognizes them.

Eventuri tries to follow slopes downwards to try and locate a stream or pond or water of any sort. He also considers eating leaves (needles if they are coniferous.)

Eventuri heads towards the non-dead forest. He walks slowly, and, like before, looks back over his shoulder every few steps.

Eventuri looks back at him. No matter what, all of us but 1 are going to die. it doesn’t matter if he dies a sad death- we all will. He’s not worth my own life for only a small chance to save his. ”Ceru! I’m going to head towards the trees. When you’re done with him, find me over there. I want to get the resources, if they are there, before somebody else does.” Eventuri gestures towards the forest.

"Wait we should get water we're gonna die of thirst even if we kill this guy-" "Okay nevermind." Eventuri follows behind at a healthy distance.

Eventuri turns to Ceru. "I know you might want to kill them, but we might want to at least see if they have any resources that we could pressure them for or steal. Or steal from their body, if that's your preference, but I'm not much help in a fight short of being threatening because we have two people."

Eventuri looks futilely for water near him. Under the assumption he doesn't see a lake that wasn't there before, he says to Ceru "We should head for the trees. We need water- trees need water. Trees might have some water."

"...I'm no soldier. I'll take your word for it." Eventuri looks around. "I wasn't expecting this. This is much more barren than the older arenas. One of the old gamemakers once said 'The more chaos the better", but this seems the reverse of that mentality." "There must be something more to this arena, right? Surely they wouldn't just leave us in here for a boring- sorry, not necessarily boring but short fight without much buildup." Eventuri stumbles over his words as he tries not to offend the quite-very-frightening Ceru.

Eventuri sighs slightly. "isn't that still a weapon under the blanket category of knife?" Is this what existence has come to? "Whatever." Eventuri walks towards him slowly, though any movement of Ceru's knife hand would leave him running away.

"I hope you will forgive me of the fact that I don't exactly don't to walk towards the person who waved a knife at me about three seconds ago." Eventuri says.

"If you take two seconds to think you'll realize that killing me is worth absolutely nothing. I have nothing- I have no skills at fighting or a way to win- I am no threat." Eventuri responds. "Also, if you fight me, I won't die instantly- and I'll probably land a few hits on you before I die. Do you think that getting injured for no reason is the right way to win? Really? Is it worth murder to simply get more wounded, have less chances of winning, and possibly die yourself?" "Think of it this way- If you kill me, you lose pretty much all opportunity to kill in the future. It would be more strategic to kill someone who actually has a value to you to kill. The joy of bloodshed is not worth the consequences it brings." Eventuri takes a step back unintentionally.

"I don't want a fight! Please! I just want to talk to somebody. I hate this silence." Eventuri shouted back.

Eventuri, hiding in the hills, peeks over the crest of one hill to see if he can spot anybody. He's lying down. He's pretty bad at hiding behind a hill.

His walk slows down, but he does keep going. Once he gets to hilly area he searches for an overhang or cave for shade.

Along the way, he tries to spot anything interesting, but if not he just continues on his way. He stops actually running after he's a bit away from the circle. he glances over his shoulder frequently as he continues his walk.