Alex did find himself watching Finnick with a questioning lift of his eyebrows -- which was hidden by the mask anyway. It was a bizarre story, and it was funny in retrospect. At the time he'd been traumatized by all the gobbling. Turkeys were unsettling strange creatures as it turned out.

He offered a bemused grin and nodded. "Yeah, Zahra thought it was pretty funny too. I think I'm sort of the bane of her existence, so any chance she has to get one over on me, well, not like I can begrudge her for taking it." He did -- UNINTENTIONALLY -- make her life more difficult than it already was.

"So, do they throw fancy parties like this a lot here?"