You know what one of the advantages of having a habitually unsettled gaze? You can look for cameras and bugs without it being out of character. Annie rocks back a little on her heels and glances around the room, much as she has been doing on and off through-out the conversation.

"Depends if that's their purposes," she comments, although her voice is softer. "They don't quite know what to do with us, so. They could be making up things as they go along, too."

The Capitol would hate her thinking like that, but she grew up on an ocean that regularly made clear it was more powerful than any human government or machine, and she survived an arena where the gamemakers made some very, very big mistakes.