"Fine. I'm fine," is her automatic reaction, but Peeta had been right in the sense that Gale needed to know about the things in the future that affected him. While his family and most of the people from the Seam had been saved, unlike Peeta's, he still needed to know. Katniss had no doubt that the island would bring it up in some painful, inexcusable way if she didn't first.

She takes a deep breath and rallies whatever courage she has left, brows furrowing with the difficulty of it. When did this become her job, as the keeper of memories almost too painful to comprehend?

"But we have to talk."