Ellis's view of Capitolites isn't at all incorrect. Many people took face value, assumed them all little more than shallow things. So few realised they were a people bred on glorified violence as anywhere else in Panem, under closer watch than any. They were all prowling things.

Ellis has simply failed to see yet that Kurloz is one of them. He chuckles in that way that shakes his shoulders but makes no sound. He goes back for his paper.

WHILST WE HAVE THIS TIME, THE MOST MOTHER FUCKIN IDEAL OF BEGINNINGS IS TO TELL WHAT YOU MAY OF YOURSELF, THAT I MAY REAP INSPIRATION FROM YOUR WORD.