"Thanks, I guess," the guard chuckled with a sincere appreciation for the gesture and the cheer on her part. He wouldn't know what it'd be like to be in the original Games, when deaths were permanent. "I mean it, I thought I got lucky but all I did was run away and help others. Probably didn't make for good tv."

The remark about Nick being all right was bittersweet, more the former than the latter when he said, "Nick would've done better if he would've used his bullets more efficiently." In other words, the man would have it coming if he died before achieving victory.