His concern was growing. She seemed calmer than she had been a moment before, but Peeta knew better than to assume that she wasn't going to get ramped up again. Much like their shared nightmares, the darkness of the games could come back at any moment. He wasn't going to give into them. One of them had to be steady, had to keep it together and he was going to make certain it was him.
The Capitol wanted her to fall apart and things might be different here, but there was no guarantee that this wasn't another game. "Slow down, who is dead? What happened?" Gently he ran a hand along the line where new skin met old along the back of her neck. He was missing something fairly big.
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His concern was growing. She seemed calmer than she had been a moment before, but Peeta knew better than to assume that she wasn't going to get ramped up again. Much like their shared nightmares, the darkness of the games could come back at any moment. He wasn't going to give into them. One of them had to be steady, had to keep it together and he was going to make certain it was him.
The Capitol wanted her to fall apart and things might be different here, but there was no guarantee that this wasn't another game. "Slow down, who is dead? What happened?" Gently he ran a hand along the line where new skin met old along the back of her neck. He was missing something fairly big.