Phil may have snickered to that, but when it's Firo, he had to be careful not to get the man's riles up. The beacon on his head was proof the young mobster was carrying some sort of power, but what that was, he still couldn't figure out.

"The thing is...I think I saw an avox or something in the castle. Why would they do that? They're not part of the Games, are they?" Wasn't it already humiliating enough to have their sense of self be destroyed, and now this?

"I say we pick the middle road: the Catacombs."

Okay not his brightest ideas but there had to be a reason the Tributes were avoiding it, maybe ghosts?