"One of us won the last arena," he answered, deliberately keeping his tone casual, "so he's out, but otherwise yes. All of us." But even casual, he didn't sound pleased about it.

It didn't escape him that technically Phil would be future competition in the arenas to come, but he held no zest or zeal for the situation they were in. He didn't want to kill people, and he didn't want to die, and he held that most people here didn't deserve this sentence.