People don't usually ask Finnick for help. Here, he's been suspicious and he's used sarcasm and the veneer of lazy playboy that keep him fairly well isolated in Panem, and he hasn't minded that. Better that people he doesn't trust don't like him. It saves him having to choose who he can and can't trust. Not that it's true of everyone, but it's true of enough of them to have worked fairly well so far.
He'd been ... well, he hadn't really been too standoffish with Beverly, falling a little into her warmth to give some of his self back in reflection. It hadn't happened on purpose, she'd just seemed to invite a little more honesty from him. Not honesty as in openness, but a certain sort of genuine reaction that not many people here have seen.
It helps that he likes her well enough, and it helps too that she's significantly older than him and seems to have paid very little attention to his looks. So he doesn't brush her off. Instead, he walks a little closer so he can see what she's looking at better.
"I could help," he agrees, then he gives a faint smile. "We mostly just worked it out ourselves from a few things we've seen, but it's holding up okay."
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He'd been ... well, he hadn't really been too standoffish with Beverly, falling a little into her warmth to give some of his self back in reflection. It hadn't happened on purpose, she'd just seemed to invite a little more honesty from him. Not honesty as in openness, but a certain sort of genuine reaction that not many people here have seen.
It helps that he likes her well enough, and it helps too that she's significantly older than him and seems to have paid very little attention to his looks. So he doesn't brush her off. Instead, he walks a little closer so he can see what she's looking at better.
"I could help," he agrees, then he gives a faint smile. "We mostly just worked it out ourselves from a few things we've seen, but it's holding up okay."