The thing about being a victor is that everybody knows your story, or at least the bits of your story that you reveal or that the media dig out when you make it to the final eight. He knows about Katniss' father, that he'd died in a mining accident like so many people in District Four do in sailing or fishing accidents.

"We never needed to know that," he says, quietly. He leaves the rest of it to her imagination, and to what everyone thinks they know about District Four. They're not all rich, even though they're a Career district, but they do have access to food without needing to go out into the woods. "In Four, we only ever needed to know ww how to survive at sea."

Except for the Careers, of course, but they don't talk about the Careers.