"Oh, we do not have to. Not so early on in the Arena. They have not yet told us that we cannot make alliances, after all."

Besides, as much as she would certainly have been willing to fight with Ruffnut, the Arena only had started. And that alone would have been more than enough to get Iskierka to give people a little bit of a headstart before fighting. To say nothing of the fact that it would rather have ruined the conversation they'd been having besides.