"New questions every day indeed," he agrees. This is going to bother him all day now. Maybe outfits like that virtual reality dream shop are fronts for more serious operations? If they can make frivolous things like that, they might be able to make other things in their downtime. It isn't too much of a stretch.

"That's a good point about the arenas. I've noticed they often show off technology they'll use in the next arena at crownings as something of a test-run; remember the holograms at Maximus's crowning? Remember how they appeared again in the jungle? Somewhere here in the Capitol they must have a place for arena-specific engineering."