"In the last part with all the Tributes, it was the tributes themselves who were trying to kill each other. The Arena only goes so far, and then you see what the others can do."

Mindy's mouth closed in a line. "So that's how you look at what I did? You're just going to pretend I never gave either of you a fair fight, that I just swooped down and killed you and laughed cackling in the night.Did it ever occur to you that I want more than just running around and dying over and over, so I could be brought back here again? Or did you forget: you're the one that actually has someone worth coming back to?"

This was a smokescreen, of course. Mindy's true reason for winning, what drove here, was still something she couldn't say.