She paused for a long moment. She knew exactly who he was talking about, of course. She considered not telling him about the zombie, letting him continue to believe R was suffering and he put him out of his misery. But he would find out soon enough once he got to the Capitol, and it was in the interest of his safety that he knew that in the wrong conditions, R might be a threat to him.

"Actually, that was R. I don't know if you even have people like him where you came from. He's a zombie, which basically means he's...sort of already dead. I don't know if he can actually feel pain. Not the way we do, at least. He's a good person. But being a zombie means that there are times he gets hungry to eat people. It's a hard impulse to control."