[ it's left her so weak and damaged, but already, just upon waking up, she can feel her body fixing itself — or the nanites in her body fixing it, anyway. the extraction process had been horrific and painful, but at least it had been fast: she expects further healing may be slower, take longer, as frustrating as that bullet she took. ]
[ peeta isn't looking at her properly, but katniss is looking at him. he doesn't seem to have been as affected as her, but even as isolated as he was, he had to have had some experience with the illness. everyone who went through the jumps did. maybe it's that which is helping him understand this isn't some mutt mutation. ]
[ katniss shifts what's in her arms. ]
Why are you talking to me?
[ she's wary, but she thinks in this case she has a right to be. but she wants so, so badly to have him forgive her, to have the old peeta back, that the question isn't as sharp as it could be. ]
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[ it's left her so weak and damaged, but already, just upon waking up, she can feel her body fixing itself — or the nanites in her body fixing it, anyway. the extraction process had been horrific and painful, but at least it had been fast: she expects further healing may be slower, take longer, as frustrating as that bullet she took. ]
[ peeta isn't looking at her properly, but katniss is looking at him. he doesn't seem to have been as affected as her, but even as isolated as he was, he had to have had some experience with the illness. everyone who went through the jumps did. maybe it's that which is helping him understand this isn't some mutt mutation. ]
[ katniss shifts what's in her arms. ]
Why are you talking to me?
[ she's wary, but she thinks in this case she has a right to be. but she wants so, so badly to have him forgive her, to have the old peeta back, that the question isn't as sharp as it could be. ]