[He lifts a shoulder and for the first time in a long while, avoids the gaze of who was asking. Wynne had asked. Alistair had asked. And he'd played it off as a joke, their lives were terribly bleak after all. Humor was needed and they never had to think much of him...but Katniss. He could not bring himself to be less than mostly honest with her.]
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[He lifts a shoulder and for the first time in a long while, avoids the gaze of who was asking. Wynne had asked. Alistair had asked. And he'd played it off as a joke, their lives were terribly bleak after all. Humor was needed and they never had to think much of him...but Katniss. He could not bring himself to be less than mostly honest with her.]
I lost track by the time I was fourteen.