Fire gone wrong[LULU blitz]

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well it took a lot of work to be the ass i am
but i'm really damn sure that anyone can
equally easily fuck you over
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I had taken to lurking around the firemaking station, watching some of the losers who thought they were so good at everything else try and master fire. There were a couple who could manage to start a decent blaze with matches, but most couldn't manage to keep anything going with anything else. I knew how important it would be in the arena to be able to start fires with anything we could find; luckily, I was pretty damn professional when it came to that sort of thing. Flint, wood, metal—you name it, I could start a fire with it. Kind of a given when you've spent years makin' fires out in the yard and your ma and dad always hide the matches from you. Of course, then there's the fact that fire speaks to me; it doesn't speak to anyone else. Except maybe Pyrian—it's the one thing he can hear.

Anyway, I was cookin' up a pretty fantastic blaze when one of those incompetent idiots sat down beside me and tried to start his own. It was pretty amusing, actually, and I could hardly keep myself from crackin' up as I watched him struggle with his kindling. My subconscious automatically spat out corrections—don't arrange the wood like that, dumbass—but I kept them to myself and instead continued to watch. Suddenly he turned to me, and I was taken by surprise by the string of smalltalk babble that came out of his mouth. "My name's Axel, sorry for being awkward." Understatement of the year. I cocked an eyebrow as he finished. "Learn each other?" I repeated, trying to get a sense for what the hell he was sayin'. "I don't usually try and learn about the people I'm gonna have to kill." My voice was kind of a sneer, but accompanied by a small, good-natured smirk. Finally I decided that it was alright to introduce myself; this guy was a bit of a dunce, but I had to at least be polite. With my fingertips lightly caressing the blaze I had going in front of me, I said, "Name's Gypsy. Gypsy Keeni. District Six."