Yes. Love. That is what this is. There have been plenty of good-looking Tributes in the Arena, of course, but this is-- unprecedented. Different. Impossible. Wonderful.

"...Right. Well. In that case. I'm Cecil." He puts out a hand to shake, and rolls his eyes a little as he says it-- a shared joke, Well, obviously I'm Cecil. He waits to reestablish eye contact, to have Carlos's hand in his, before he speaks again. "Welcome, Carlos, to the Capitol."

They're not strictly in the Capitol right now, but this must count as some small microcosm of it, right? And the effect is good enough that he can forgo precision-- he drops his voice as he says it, speaks it slowly and meaningfully and intently