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But the Games are a brutal farce. The mentors are desperate, the arena is a ruined amphitheater, and the tributes are treated like animals. Coriolanus cheats. He smuggles a compact of rat poison into Lucy Gray’s food, intending for her to use it strategically. Instead, she uses it to kill the vicious tribute from District 2, but not before Coriolanus is caught by his ruthless classmate, Sejanus Plinth. Sejanus, a wealthy District 2 transplant who despises the Games, tries to free the tributes. He is caught. Coriolanus, to save himself, betrays Sejanus to Dr. Volumnia Gaul, the deranged Gamemaker who sees humanity as chaos needing control. As a reward, Coriolanus is not expelled. Instead, he is given a "prize": two weeks of Peacekeeper duty in District 12—a death sentence for a Capitol boy.

In a frantic chase through the forest, Coriolanus fires into the mockingjays, whose songbirds echo Lucy Gray’s ballad back at him. He shoots blindly. When the silence falls, he finds only a bloody scarf by the lake. Lucy Gray is gone—dead, or vanished into legend. But the Games are a brutal farce

He returns to the cabin, burns his evidence, and is airlifted back to the Capitol by Dr. Gaul’s orders. “You passed the test, boy,” she says. “You understand that humanity is a snake pit, and the only good snake is the one that strikes first.” Coriolanus graduates, marries into wealth, and watches as the Games are transformed into the televised spectacle they become. He takes Dr. Gaul’s philosophy as his own: control through fear, order through chaos. Years later, when a mockingjay pin appears on a girl from District 12—Katniss Everdeen—he will not sing. He will not negotiate. He will burn it all down. He smuggles a compact of rat poison into