"You're Panem, just like me, for better or worse. My loyalties lie with the nation, not a man who can't fathom the fact that he'll rot just like the rest of us," the former coach piped up, "It's not an uncommon sentiment but you didn't hear it from me."

Was Leonidas selfish and arrogant to a fault? Yes. But was he afraid of death? Not in a million years when he becomes the proverbial dust. He respected the cessation as much as he did the fight to survive and Snow's revival mechanism spat in the face of all that. Offworlders had no choice in their immortality, but the President did.

"Now you'd best lay down."