Snow has already lost, the precautions as bad as the poisons they guard against, and Coin, she can tell, has spent too long fighting in the arena herself to know how to stop when the opportunity presents itself.

She's tried to keep the people closest to her alive, but the rules of the Games are unforgiving: If your opponent presents a weakness, you must exploit it, for there can be only one victor in the end.

She draws the bow, takes sight of where her target is, and, before anyone can suspect her conclusion, aims and fires.