Ah. So that's the problem. He isn't sure if he's supposed to share what he's about to, especially since the Capitol's watchful eye is closer on them in these arenas than ever. But Wyatt, so far as Roland knows, never suffered from sharing it with him. He glances over at the boy, hiding, suffering next to him, and decides to pass on what Wyatt had shared all that time ago. If the Capitol doesn't want its citizens to know, it doesn't have to show it. "Some time ago, the Capitol pulled in... visitors." Visitors, prisoners. Same thing, here.

"From some of our worlds. One of the tributes who was here then - hmm, what was his name? Maximus, I think - met a man who came from the his world's future, and was told no one there had even realized he was gone. Because to them, he wasn't. That world had its Maximus. I know, too, that some have left and come back with memories of being in their own worlds for some while, before being taken back here. I don't know how both can be true, Aang, but they are. You may well end up back there one day but even if you don't, your world will have its avatar."