"They don't make you go back in again after you've won, not unless it's a special circumstance. But it's not the usual custom." Max says, sipping her champagne. "They make everybody watch. But when you win, you become a celebrity. Of sorts. You become a mentor to those who go into the arena after you. Sometimes...other things. I wouldn't dwell on it too much."

She lets her gaze go sidelong and she says so quietly that Anna may miss it, "As long as you're alive, there's a chance." A chance for what? She doesn't say. And she's not going to.