It's only entertainment for the Capitol. Their children don't go into the Games.
For the rest of Panem? It's a reminder. That the Capitol remembers their failed rebellion. And that, if they chose, they could kill everyone.
Instead, most years, they settle for twenty-three kids.
[Because in her two years in Luceti, that's what she's accepted. They are kids. They're just kids. All of them. Career eighteen-year-olds and outlier twelve-year-olds alike. They're all kids.]
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For the rest of Panem? It's a reminder. That the Capitol remembers their failed rebellion. And that, if they chose, they could kill everyone.
Instead, most years, they settle for twenty-three kids.
[Because in her two years in Luceti, that's what she's accepted. They are kids. They're just kids. All of them. Career eighteen-year-olds and outlier twelve-year-olds alike. They're all kids.]