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JOHANNA’S AX SLICED INTO the floor beneath her and she breathed in heavily, smirking menacingly at a slightly shocked Katniss and Peeta, who had just entered the training room. Reeve sat on the steps that led up to the platform that Johanna practiced on.
“I think it’s your turn,” Johanna snapped and Reeve looked at her, bewildered.
“You know that I’m not as proficient as you are,” she responded with the shake of her head. “Leave the knives to me.”
Her main weapons in her first Games had been knives, even though the heat of the desert arena had taken out most of the tributes naturally. Reeve was also fairly good at hand to hand combat, and Finnick had taught her how to make fish hooks and tie knots years ago.
Johanna didn’t respond and …show more content…

Mediocre would make the cut, at the very least.
Florian was practicing hand to hand combat on the platform beside Enobaria, which is what distracted her momentarily from her trap making and attempting to improve her animal hunting skills.
Utterly lethal is something she would use as a descriptor to explain how he looked in that moment. All of that time away from everyone else hadn’t exactly made him rusty. That made her even more worried.
“He’s a strange one, I’ll admit,” Finnick’s voice emitted from next to her. He had crouched down next to her and the trap and she scowled.
“You’ve got to quit sneaking up on me like that,” she scolded with the roll of her eyes. When her eyes hit Florian again, the real problem hitting her. “And yeah, he is. Still hasn’t spoken to me one time.”
“Really?” he questioned, intrigued as he watched the man who had won the games even younger than he had. “I think he’s definitely out as our ally.”
“Ah, so it’s decided that we’re allies?” Reeve inquired as she finished up the trap and set it to the side. It would do. Grinning, he nodded.
“Of course,” he dismissed. Before she was able to continue, both of their attention was drawn to every other tribute gravitating toward the archery station and watching in awe.
Finnick and Reeve exchanged a look before joining them. Katniss was on the other side of the glass, shooting arrows rapidly at the fake attackers that broke into blocks when she hit them.
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