The first list gets her a cautious nod, though Finnick's bright eyes are still intent on her, watching her like she watches him, and watch him she does, though it's not how he's used to being watched. He's always turned heads, even before he became a star all around Panem at the Hunger Games. Now, everywhere he goes, he's watched, stared at, admired, ogled, wanted.
He knows the looks. This isn't one of them. This is more like two tributes assessing each other in the arena.
Mexico -- a name that used to be given to part of what is now District 4, Finnick's own home, the source of the occasional vaguely Spanish lilt in his accent. Canada? That name is less familiar. But all of it is wrong. Panem hasn't had any of those names for a long time, and they're only passed on now in history lessons and half-remembered stories from the times before Panem, before the rest of the world flooded.
"No," he says, and his tone shows no indication of believing her, or of any easing of his suspicion. "Panem's the only habitable land left. And Panem hasn't been called any of those things for a long time."
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The first list gets her a cautious nod, though Finnick's bright eyes are still intent on her, watching her like she watches him, and watch him she does, though it's not how he's used to being watched. He's always turned heads, even before he became a star all around Panem at the Hunger Games. Now, everywhere he goes, he's watched, stared at, admired, ogled, wanted.
He knows the looks. This isn't one of them. This is more like two tributes assessing each other in the arena.
Mexico -- a name that used to be given to part of what is now District 4, Finnick's own home, the source of the occasional vaguely Spanish lilt in his accent. Canada? That name is less familiar. But all of it is wrong. Panem hasn't had any of those names for a long time, and they're only passed on now in history lessons and half-remembered stories from the times before Panem, before the rest of the world flooded.
"No," he says, and his tone shows no indication of believing her, or of any easing of his suspicion. "Panem's the only habitable land left. And Panem hasn't been called any of those things for a long time."