"A pretty cage is still a cage. All I ever wanted was to be free."

Maybe it wasn't all she wanted, but freedom certainly ranked pretty high on her list. And being here, unable to make her own choices whether she stayed or left, lived or died. She'd told Finnick as such, that she didn't intend to set roots, or surrender to the illusion of complacency while she knew her world was dying.

Including the people left in it that she cared about, or at least felt that they didn't deserve to disappear just because Jade herself wanted so badly to. What a contradiction she is.

"No, I don't regret it, either." Jade pauses, turning her head slightly to look at Imoen with her good eye, before looking away again. "Or meeting you."