"If you can just think them, it seems almost too easy. If you can just apologize for the bad things you do, privately and to yourself without the judgment of other humans... I guess I don't know what's stopping a bad person from doing bad things."

He thinks this over for a second, along with Bayard's offer. It's sweet; too sweet for the Capitol, and it still manages not to be cloying. He suspects it's because Bayard doesn't know, and perhaps lacks the life experience to guess, the extent to which Linden has sinned.

"Your father's in a war? What war?"