“"We didn't bomb the train tunnel, you know. Some of them will probably get out."
"And then we'll shoot them when they show their faces?" I ask.
"Only if we have to," he answers.”

Boggs and Katniss (pp. 209-210)
The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

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