It was pouring down rain in the busy city of Ravnica, Azula Norden was taking notes on the vast amount of laws in the city from one of her professors at the Azorius Academy. Her best friend and fiance, Michael Roque, was running extremely late, as usual. She thought it was a miracle he didn't get expelled or worse...arrested for truancy, because in Ravnica, the punishment for truancy is automatic participation in the annual Guild Games. She brushed her blue-streaked silver hair to the side to keep it out of her eyes, the blue was an unnatural contrast against her pale, almost ghost-like, skin. Azula had always been interested in botany, ever since she was a little girl, growing up near Selesnya territory, she had always had a keen interest in nature. Michael on the other hand was the adventurer out of the two, he used to explore the forest while she looked at plants, seeing the occasional rarity that he knew Azula loved. The two were as different as night and day; she was shy and nervous, while he was loud and obnoxious, but thats what they loved about each other. She was spacing off, dreaming about Michael, when the Guild Games Administrator, Tyranius, came into the room. She wouldn't have realized it had Michael not nudged her out of her daze. She was about to ask him where he was, when Tyranius announced that he would choose 2 participants, a girl and a boy from each guild, to participate in this year's Guild Games. Everyone was hoping not to get chosen because that meant they would have to fight to the death. Azula gripped Michael's hand tightly as Tyranius put his hand in a jar full of the boys' names, finally picking one up and opening it.
"Our first participant is Michael Roque," Azula looked to her husband-to-be, his silver-streaked blue hair covering the shock in his eyes, who was now the center of attention. He got up slowly and was escorted to the grinning Tyranius, who was now reaching into the jar with the girls' names, before pulling one out and looking up, "The last participant from the Azorius is...Azula Norden!" She couldn't move, her body seemed frozen; one of the escorts came and roughly pulled her to her feet, the other escort joining him soon after, dragging the limp girl to the front.
