"Sometimes she goes out in the morning, she likes to hunt..." He didn't get it, but he'd also never hunted before, not even after being Reaped for the Games. Peeta just didn't understand the rhythms of hunting and the patterns of wild animals, while Katniss always seemed more at ease with animals than people. But that was something they both knew and understood, and this... wasn't. "She'll come back for lunch if she didn't take something with her in a pocket, and she didn't take anything with her." It there was anything Peeta was certain about, it was that Katniss would not stint herself on food if she could get it. He was pretty sure she loved food more than anything but her sister.

And he hesitated when she asked the question, looking down. "I want to, but..." The crutches. The crutches made everything so much harder.