I haven't known Peeta for very long - or at least, not compared to Gale. In fact, I was hardly even aware of him until last year. But it feels like whole lifetimes. I know his face. I've seen him in situations that weren't pretty and events that brought him on the brink of lunacy because of what the Capitol did to him.

There's another thing I've neglected to share. He's enraged - I can see it in the tenseness of his body and the lines in his face. The least I can do is give him someone to be angry at. And in the worst-case scenario, someone to hate. If that could ever happen with this Peeta.

"I'm sorry." despite it being quiet, I'm sure he heard it.