"Yeah. Because being friends sometimes mean you have to learn from them. You can learn those lessons the easy way, or the hard way. The Arena sure as shit doesn't let you learn it the easy way, and sometimes the lesson has to literally come the fuck out of nowhere. You saw me when I found you guys. Did you really think I had already planned to kill you both? hadn't crossed my mind, not until I saw you and realized that maybe, just maybe, the Capitol liked seeing you slowly broken down. That you defied them, and maybe they were waiting for you to become less important to kill you quietly. Or maybe they wanted to see what Pruna would do when you didn't come back. Either way, I'd seen that happen before, so I wanted them to see what you could do. If it managed to rope you more sponsors, all the better."

And all it would cost Mindy were injuries and a little of her self respect.