"Excellent. That's already a costume anyway." Venus' real name - not the stage name, the one her mother gave her - isn't a total secret, but she still likes to keep her real self to her chest. She'll wear the public persona, the muscles and curves, the fashion and smiles, the flirting and murder, like a sheath, and she'll stay inside, safe and unknown and practically non-existent.

They all find ways to survive in Panem.

"Do you want me to do anything dramatic to get a headline, or are we already putting my wild days in the past?"