Finnick almost laughs, at the comment about them playing it up for the cameras, since he had thought the same thing before he got to know them. But then Shepard implies that Katniss died or disappeared for good, and his brow furrows again.
"Yes. She became the face of the rebellion after she won. Our Quarter Quell was different- rather than your Endless Quell, we had one where all the tributes were chosen from the pool of existing Victors. She and I ended up in that Arena together, and I was tasked with keeping her and Peeta alive as part of a rebel plot to break us all out of there. A handful of us did get out alive, but Peeta and some others were captured and tortured in the Capitol for a while before we were able to rescue them." He frowns, then.
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"Yes. She became the face of the rebellion after she won. Our Quarter Quell was different- rather than your Endless Quell, we had one where all the tributes were chosen from the pool of existing Victors. She and I ended up in that Arena together, and I was tasked with keeping her and Peeta alive as part of a rebel plot to break us all out of there. A handful of us did get out alive, but Peeta and some others were captured and tortured in the Capitol for a while before we were able to rescue them." He frowns, then.