These things? If they didn't kill someone, they infected them. More of them running around. And people were tying them up or knocking them out.
[Leaving them alive to try again.
Clove's world has only one kind of mercy: a quick death. Cutting someone's throat rather than dragging the process out. That's what she and Cato had promised each other in the Arena. If they had to kill each other before the final two, they'd make it quick and painless. Not let the Capitol enjoy their deaths.]
They think we're forced to fight, here.
[Forced to go to the battles, yes. She won't argue with that. But she's seen the non-combatants hang back. She's seen them distribute supplies or tend to the wounded. She's seen that they have a choice.
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[Leaving them alive to try again.
Clove's world has only one kind of mercy: a quick death. Cutting someone's throat rather than dragging the process out. That's what she and Cato had promised each other in the Arena. If they had to kill each other before the final two, they'd make it quick and painless. Not let the Capitol enjoy their deaths.]
They think we're forced to fight, here.
[Forced to go to the battles, yes. She won't argue with that. But she's seen the non-combatants hang back. She's seen them distribute supplies or tend to the wounded. She's seen that they have a choice.
She can't see that as being forced to fight.]