"If people were to treat her well..." the look on the man's face said all they would keep her out of the Arenas.. It was something that bothered Phil to no end: that the Capitol would spoil and make celebrities out of children then send them off to be slaughtered. The adults were older, they could make for better Tributes, more drama. But it wasn't his place to question the Hunger Games.

"You two, you've been through the ringer, isn't there any way you can ask to be excluded? I think the word was petition?"

There had to be options to spare as many Tributes as possible.