Whatever the Hunger takes is never coming back, or if it does, it will be unrecognizable, so maybe it’s better to hope everything is gone for good. When even winning means previously unimaginable destruction it can be hard to keep going – and some years one of them *will* just give in to the hopelessness and try again next time – but they keep coming back to try again, and not just because they don’t have a choice.

Whatever it takes, their answer is to give.