Shion should have known that it had been a bad idea to tell the stylist how he had gotten his scar. He had hoped that by knowing the story behind it, and what it had come to mean she would stop her attempts to change him.

Instead it had got him dressed like this, and they had injected him with something and now he felt sick. Sicker than he had felt before.

He barely had time to take in the arena, the other people, what was about to happen before the pain started. Added to the costume it was like Rat extracting the parasite from him all over again and he had not gone very far when he stumbled, barely able to continue. He was probably one of the first of the poisoned tributes to fall.