She was correct in her predictions. The injuries aren't too complicated and are easy to fix, particularly because they're too fresh for any infections to have set in. Few even have broken bones, doubtless because so many birds struck the barrier head-on and died on impact. That's bad enough, but it does mean the birds still alive to be treated aren't too badly off to begin with.

There are a lot of injured jays, though, and by the time the last one flies off with a chirrup of gratitude, the better part of an hour has gone by. Daine blinks her eyes open, then stretches. She's been hunched over her charges for long enough that her back's a bit sore.

When she realizes Peeta's watching her - and might have been for some time, given how he's sitting - she smiles faintly. She's not quite sure if she should be flattered by the interest or baffled by it. "I did say it'd be boring," she says.