"Wah? Why just us? That doesn't seem fair? How bad is he?"
"Well, Sasha said something about being the type to push a person off the side of a cliff if he thought it would help them."
The color drained from Kyrina's face, and I started to laugh, and I moved to give her a kiss. Kyrina was surprised at first but pressed into my lips and kissed me back. After pulling apart, we finished eating and cleaned up our mess, returning the cups and tossing the leaf in the fire pit. There were a couple more ponds in the area, so we decided to go for a walk.
"Where does the race start?" I asked as we walked along the edge of a pond, watching birds and bugs fly around.
"From inside the capital. That is when most of the deaths occur, from what I know. The King puts traps up all over the city and hires bands of mercenaries to kill the contestants. The last King was like that; I cant see why this one would be different, Maybe worse.
