"It is a shame, isn’t it? I like most of the Career tributes here. Too bad I had to make friends here, of all places." Alberto laughed with a kind of superficial cordiality. "But I know we both have our own plans, in terms of alliances. All I’m saying is that if we run into each other, I’ll lend you a hand, if you need one."
"That is," Alberto’s smile slightly faded and his tone lowered, "if it’s not towards the end of the games. You know how it is." He wasn’t gonna sugar coat anything, not in front of this guy. Yeah, they could help each other, but the point of this game was to stay alive, and to do that, everybody else had to die. The quickest way to make sure people died was to kill them. It was simple. If anybody knew that, it was the Careers.
Enough on that topic, though. Alberto was delighted that he was given the opportunity to talk about himself.
"Oh, well, I guess. We’re the closest to the Capitol geographically, and they seem to like us a lot. After all, we provide them with all their luxury items. In return," Alberto smiled, "we’re quite well off. Best training, best quality of life, you know, those kinds of things. But I’m guessing it’s even better where you’re from, isn’t it?” If there was one thing that might get him killed immediately, it was probably his not-so-guilty pleasure: boasting.
"Understandable. If I see you and there's only a few tributes left, things probably won't go well. But that's inevitable." Hopefully someone would get rid of Alberto first for him. It'd save him the trouble.
Giovanni decided that he might enjoy personally stabbing Alberto for how conceited he sounded. Which made Giovanni a huge hypocrite, considering he loved to boast just as much. "We hold all their weapons, so we get a lot of love to make sure we don't dislike the Capitol, I guess. Just because we became so weapon oriented, our training tends to go well. Honestly, I haven't seen a tribute from us that isn't ridiculously strong."
After a few moments, he grimaced, though. "Most of us live very well, but a lot of the more unfortunate types are destined to just die carving stone. Not really my problem. They're the ones who never participate in the games, anyways." He shrugged. The fact that his family was well off wasn't something he took with much humbleness. It was just the result of luck, and luck that he was damn happy to have. Many other rich families were so because they had victors in their lineage, which made them both popular and made it very easy for them to find suitors that were equally wealthy.
Giovanni certainly appreciated the Capitol, even if he personally hated the idea of being like them.
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