Haymitch is used to death, certainly, more than he should be. More than anyone should be. He's seen more of it up close than most people in Panem, but that doesn't make it any easier to handle what just happened. He'd been resigned to losing the tributes he mentored, because someone from District Twelve winning had only happened a couple of times in the history of the Games.
Until Katniss and Peeta. Mostly Katniss, because she had the skills and the spirit required to have any kind of chance at winning, but Peeta had surprised him plenty, too. It makes a macabre sort of sense that after Katniss had disappeared, that Peeta was lost, too, because since their first victory in the arena, it had hardly been one without the other. One to be the symbol and one to get everyone to like them.
"There's talk of having a funeral. Nothing big. Just some words." Which is all anyone from District Twelve usually gets anyway; what little they have is too precious to bury with a body.
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Until Katniss and Peeta. Mostly Katniss, because she had the skills and the spirit required to have any kind of chance at winning, but Peeta had surprised him plenty, too. It makes a macabre sort of sense that after Katniss had disappeared, that Peeta was lost, too, because since their first victory in the arena, it had hardly been one without the other. One to be the symbol and one to get everyone to like them.
"There's talk of having a funeral. Nothing big. Just some words." Which is all anyone from District Twelve usually gets anyway; what little they have is too precious to bury with a body.