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WHO | Diana and Open!
WHAT | Diana's alone and also will likely be dying.
WHERE | Adventureland
WHEN | Evening, sometime after the projection of the dead.
WARNINGS | Death, if all goes as planned.

Diana had made a promise, to keep Blaine safe, to keep those he loved safe, keep them from suffering. She has failed on all counts. Being separated from Blaine while he's still clearly having difficulty with Kurt's death was bad enough, but to see his face in the sky before she can find him again--it's just another blow.

She knew precious few of those who were still in the Arena, since so many of the other faces she'd seen projected were those she would call friends or allies. Tim she knew was somewhere, and Barbara, but for now she was alone and feeling lost and, quite literally, powerless. Not knowing what else to do, since she couldn't sleep and it was too dark to continue moving, she did the only thing she could think of while sitting next to her fire. She prayed.

The gods may not have even been able to hear her, wherever she was, but it was a comfort if nothing else.

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"And they'll make sure this ends with a winner, I'm betting," Diana said dryly. "Our place here is part of their reaction to the last time someone tried to end the game without a Victor."

"I see." Although he wished he didn't. He supposed it was a bit like the Roman Gladiators, only with more powerful people in charge. "I suppose it's better us in here than children." There were children, but at least there weren't only children.

"It's better than it was," she allowed. "There are still some children, but rather than being killed they are simply...tortured by the cycle of death and rebirth, like the rest of us. It's not ideal, but it leaves more options." Where there's life, there's hope, a trite saying with a sentiment Diana believed in heartily.

He frowned. "What do you mean, the cycle of death and rebirth?" It could mean a few things, but none of them seemed to apply here, as far as he could tell.