South made her way back to the room and quickly changed into the suit worn under the amour and then pulled that on over the top. However she decided to try and beat the masses to the mess hall and grab herself some breakfast. Not surprisingly there was barely anyone here. It was still fairly early, so some were still sleeping. She suspected that many others were still back at the briefing room or out training after receiving less than desired results. She wasn’t stressed about it and had no doubt some would view her as ‘taking it easy’ or being lazy, assuming she decided she didn’t need to work hard because she was already near the top.

That wasn’t the case in the least, but South knew that’s what people would think. In truth she’d be acting the same whether she’d come first or fiftieth. And right now she was hungry. So she was going to eat. As she did she pulled out her data pad, noticing the board ratings had also been sent to it, with her name very clearly outlined, her number displayed in large font on the left hand side. She recognised every name on that list, having hacked into the system before arriving and having a sneak peek at the files before arriving, briefly of course. Who had time to look over all of them in detail with the little free time they were given?

**

North nodded happily in greeting to the new to, happy to at least put amour colour to their names for now. “North Dakota, but you can just call me North.” And then turned back to Carolina. “Hungry.” He replied with a small chuckle. “Anyone care to join me for breakfast? I have no doubt South’s there since she isn’t back right now. I swear I’ve never seen a girl so small eat so much.” He shook his head slightly. She was probably lucky she’d never been sent out on long missions before. The rations would probably drive her crazy. She’d probably go AWOL and start hunting local fauna. If the higher-ups wanted to get an interesting response out of South, deprivation of food was the way to do it.