He was still frowning, unsure if he could agree with her just yet. Firo didn't try to be stubborn when it came to people he liked, but it was one of those things he just couldn't stop.
He shrugged. "Even if you've got one, people can still turn that stuff off."
"At the least, they don't seem to realize that we feel all that stuff."
The apparent contradiction between his two statements--that a person could simply shut off the ability to care and that the Tributes were treated as if their cares were unimportant--was lost on him. In his mind, both ideas could coexist just fine.
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He shrugged. "Even if you've got one, people can still turn that stuff off."
"At the least, they don't seem to realize that we feel all that stuff."
The apparent contradiction between his two statements--that a person could simply shut off the ability to care and that the Tributes were treated as if their cares were unimportant--was lost on him. In his mind, both ideas could coexist just fine.