Numbers. Always numbers. We perform mathematical research. That is all we will ever be good for.
We know the odds that our children will survive. Technically they are 1 in 24. But they are really much worse than that.
If all tributes were equal, we would have those odds. But life is not that way. Some children are trained, some are naturally brave or cowards. No matter what the Capitol says, they are not numbers.
Can numbers cry when they and their friends are sent to their deaths?
Trust us, we know numbers, and numbers they most certainly are not.