[The reply takes a few moments to come. Clove actually has to think about it. Or how to word it.]

It's a game. Entertainment for the Capitol. [Not the Districts. It's supposed to be, according to the Capitol, but it's not. She knows that.] The sponsors like pain and blood and a spectacle.

I was going to deliver.

I was going to make it a kill they'd talk about for a decade. Or more.