Her entire life has been nightmares, but only after she was a Victor did they follow her into her dreams: the burning places, the cannon shots, Rue breathing her last and the fox-faced one who would have killed her and Peeta both had he not taken the poisonous berries by mistake.

She watches Peeta struggle with the tracker jacker venom, losing contact with reality, coming back to it, unsure which part is the nightmare and which is the waking world. She understands now that it's not about optics and propaganda, but the cold reality that ever since the first trip up the elevator, she's never left the Games, only changed the arena.