"I try not to let that get to me." Jack calmed himself after she left go. "After all, I'm King of Victors. If I don't go up to bat for my Tributes..."

Those people he shouldn't care about. Those men and women and children who were just constant nuisances. Completely obstinate.

And, in this sea of people, were just as alone as he had been as they were forced to go back into the Arena again.

"...No one else will."