The look on Gray's eyes hardened, because he knows the answer will not be easy to talk to with the amount of scrutiny he's under. He has to uphold his District's reputation and his own Mentor Linden's legacy above his own feelings on the matter and the guilt he carried with him at all times.
He left his training gear and allowed Foxy to run alongside him, and crossed his arms, "The simple answer is that there is no other choice. It's the Games or all-out war." This was a lie, Phil already knows that war will eventually break out. He's all too aware that there is a rebellion and it will not be silenced. But he promised Linden that he would not turn a blind eye to the clear injustices in this world.
"Before, the Districts would send in two children, reaped to participate in the survival that is the Hunger Games, one winner out of 24. The winning District would get extra rations for that year, and the Capitol would take care of the Victor, in exchange for their services as Mentor for the next reaping. The difference now is that they've managed to reap people from other worlds in place of their children."
He gestured with his head, to tell Sayaka to walk with him to the elevator. There is a measure of privacy in the Mentor suites.
"Before, the Capitol would allow credit lines to the offworlder tributes...right up until Jason Compson exposed this to be paid by the Districts themselves. Needless to say, they were ticked and the Capitol cut the lines but added that Tributes who killed in the Arena would get paid."
Yeah. This place is fucked up.
"But most don't kill for that or for the joy of it," he clarified, "Some do it in self-defense while others," and this is where that sense of shame comes along, "L-Like myself, did it out of...a moment of rage." His Victory came about with an accidental one, two revenge kills in which he lost sight of the person who took a loved one. His brain simply replaced them with the serial killer back home.
"Offworlders come back from the Arena, but every death is remembered."
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He left his training gear and allowed Foxy to run alongside him, and crossed his arms, "The simple answer is that there is no other choice. It's the Games or all-out war." This was a lie, Phil already knows that war will eventually break out. He's all too aware that there is a rebellion and it will not be silenced. But he promised Linden that he would not turn a blind eye to the clear injustices in this world.
"Before, the Districts would send in two children, reaped to participate in the survival that is the Hunger Games, one winner out of 24. The winning District would get extra rations for that year, and the Capitol would take care of the Victor, in exchange for their services as Mentor for the next reaping. The difference now is that they've managed to reap people from other worlds in place of their children."
He gestured with his head, to tell Sayaka to walk with him to the elevator. There is a measure of privacy in the Mentor suites.
"Before, the Capitol would allow credit lines to the offworlder tributes...right up until Jason Compson exposed this to be paid by the Districts themselves. Needless to say, they were ticked and the Capitol cut the lines but added that Tributes who killed in the Arena would get paid."
Yeah. This place is fucked up.
"But most don't kill for that or for the joy of it," he clarified, "Some do it in self-defense while others," and this is where that sense of shame comes along, "L-Like myself, did it out of...a moment of rage." His Victory came about with an accidental one, two revenge kills in which he lost sight of the person who took a loved one. His brain simply replaced them with the serial killer back home.
"Offworlders come back from the Arena, but every death is remembered."