Her eyes lulled into the camera as Coral's knife slices and slices at her throat; she's dead. Lucy Gray is dead.

You watched her rainbow dress soak into one shade of red until a shimmering outline circles her waist and then leaps at Coral's neck.

snakes. the arena is filling with snakes.

Before you can process the death of the songbird, the floor is no longer visible as the chrome reptiles slither about. Canons going off one after another until the TV turns black.

Everyone...is dead. there is no winner. You think back to Dr. Gaul's threat and wonder if this was her doing...or worse...Coryos...

You almost laugh at your immediate defense of Coryo. That's illegal he wouldn't risk it for her, blah blah blah. but you just shook your head as you stood.

because truthfully, you don't even know him.

It's as if your body and mind are on autopilot as you walk to your bedroom. Thinking back to your last memory of him, his words sinking deeper with each replay your mind forces you to endure. It's funny though, how he was entering Dr. Gaul's office before all this. Whatever the Snows want they get.

You almost chuckle as your wrist moves faster than your thoughts, scribbling so hard the parchment almost tears at some points.

You spit and twist it into a shape before forcing it into an envelope. You're not even sure if you closed the door as you're half way down the street.

"I can't deal with your whining right now"

You can feel his eyes bore into you the same way as you step up the schools steps. It may have passed your mind that it was weird how no one was swarming the halls or even the streets after the rigged game, but, you didn't have room for logic right now as you slapped the envelope on a familiar desk and left the university.

who knew it would just take paper & pen to ruin the Snow name?