"For some people," he says, flashing her another bright grin. A lot of people here have treated surviving without easy comforts or food supplies as though it were some sort of nightmare. Finnick and Annie are victors, both of them victors who'd been able to survive without relying on stockpiled supplies in the way that Careers often did. But before they were Careers, they'd been poor kids in families that ran small fishing operations, pressing to make big quotas for not enough money, and sometimes they'd had to poach to have enough food.

"They have walls. Run down, a few holes and leaks and a lot of dust, but pretty solid."

Their house has mostly reliable power here, and that's more than anyone in the districts could say.

"That's about the situation," he says. "Occasional earthquakes and crazy weather just for some added fun."

He shrugs, because there's not much they can do about those except be ready for them and smart when they happen. He's downplaying a lot of his own suspicions and fears, but the way she's talking makes it sound like she's got enough experience to know not to trust this place without any extra warnings from him.

"And a couple of people have worked out how to make liquor so find the right friends and you might get lucky."