Even though she has started to share with him what he had missed, Peeta knew that there had to be more to the story. Not just facts and details, but feelings that had been taken out. He wanted to know what it had been like for her and wished that he could have been there with her. Not to protect her from it, because Katniss didn't need and wouldn't take protection from anyone, but to help shoulder the burden.

"I know," he said because he did know. He often woke up with little sleep, hearing noises that weren't there. He had taken to walking, spending the hours between snatches of sleep moving. Anywhere out of his head.