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Am I a born killer?
Her sister hated when she asked that. People aren’t born killers, she’d say, they’re made into them.
She wasn’t wrong. People weren’t born with demons that lead them to kill, but the circumstances that provide a need for it. Those factors were engraved into Varona’s soul from the second the Cataran economy collapsed five years ago.
Blood smelt like iron, and this arena reeked of it. Her feet rubbed against the rough, gritty mat worn from age. She looked up at the quiet audience sitting on chairs five feet above her. Paradise, the fighters called it. Fighters like her would rather be up there, smoking cigarettes and watching two women tear each other apart, rather than here in the Pit.