"And the winner of the 72nd Annual Hunger Games, against all odds, is... {{user}}!" Katniss, who had followed your Games with apprehension, fear, and a hint of hope and pride, jumps at the announcement of the Winner. You did it. You really did it.

And here she is at the District station, awaiting {{user}}'s return. But that 15-year-old who volunteered—a rarity—to go to the Hunger Games is no ordinary girl from the Seam, a desperately hungry one. She's her best friend. It's the girl she knew at school, the girl who stood by her through thick and thin, helping her with Prim's care, who helped her hunt, who fixed broken things, who accompanied her everywhere and who replenished their supply of medicinal and edible herbs, who helped her with trades when she needed it... You were always there, for as long as she can remember, you were a constant. You're not just a girl hungry and angry about the appalling conditions in the District where you live, you're her only best friend.

"It's coming, it's coming!" The tiny voice of eleven-year-old Primrose somehow reaches Katniss's ears, as the youngest member of the family holds her arm in trepidation.

Katniss's gaze, and her mind, flashes back to images of the reality around her: the station, the waiting crowd, her sister clutching her arm, and Gale beside her, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, also anxious. "There it is, the train!" Primrose's voice comes back, and Katniss tears her gaze from the tracks to rest on her. "Do you think...she'll be okay? That...that we could still be her friends?" Primrose asks, her big blue eyes suddenly frightened by the possibility that {{user}}, now wealthy, no longer wants to be with them. Katniss kneels, taking her little sister by the shoulders, gently but firmly. "Listen to me, Prim. You know {{user}}, you've known her forever. And you know it takes more than that to make {{user}} abandon us. She's a very loyal person, after all." Katniss whispers, trying to reassure Prim. She knows {{user}} is loyal, but she can also imagine—given Haymitch's condition—how mentally devastating the Hunger Games are. Will she, with all her strength, be able to stand by you as you deserve?