"Well, there can only be one winner," she says diplomatically, but her hands are wringing in her lap. He's so smarmy and yet she can't say anything because, well, she's the visitor to this Suite, and that means she needs to be polite.

Surely Jason will be back soon.

"Nobody wins their first Arena anyway. It's never happened, not since the first Arena of the Never-ending Quell, and that was only because everyone was a first time Tribute in that one."