4Wildcard » The unexpected resource — the wildcard — is Nikola Kaplan. Native to Three, he's an intelligent medic, deft-fingered, the smiling type — and Gloss Rosewood invites him into the Career alliance against the wishes of everyone else.

Watercolor Clouds » Snape recognized Lockhart less by his bright blue eyes and more by the disorder that always seemed to accompany him.

5Fantasy » Bought and sold as a Victor, Gloss' body is not his own. After years of coping through fantasies, Gloss thinks he's finally found something real in his icy tribute, Augustus Braun. It could be yet another illusion. After all, Gloss belongs to the Capitol.

1 Roadside Wildflower » It hits like ice-water on naked skin when Rick relives the moment he wrenched out Shane's soul. It's what Rick deserves to see before he dies, bleeding out into the grass while Shane struggles to keep him alive. But it isn't. Instead, it's a hundred thousand vivid memories, back-to-back. It's the fingerprint of everything he's ever felt. [Rick/Shane, pre-canon.]

In the Starlight » "Walkers don't think enough to see past all those pretty lights. They look at the stars and move in one place trying to get 'em. As long as they think they have a reason, they'll keep moving. Just like you and I." Wherein the world after the walkers is much more simple than it should be.