"Why do you care? If they know, then they know, and no amount of being indignant about it changes that! Don't you think they like that? That they piss you off, that you give them a reaction?" Her brow is knit, like she doesn't understand why he can't see the difference between playing the game and playing into their hands.

"They don't force us to stay here once we win. The victors used to go back to their districts, they only had to come back to be Mentors. And we have more than enough of those around. You aren't even that popular, Joel, not with the Capitolites. I doubt they'd care if you fucked off to wherever and hid forever."