Effie finished brushing his shoulders, paused to straighten his collar, not that it needed it. He wasn't wearing shoes and she was inwardly balking at it, but that was just one of the many strange things Peeta and Katniss did. Walk on the ground. Horrifying. Effie herself was in a pair of shoes that she nonetheless managed to balance on even with the spiky heels sinking into the grass. She felt that if she couldn't walk in any civilized terrain in heels, she didn't deserve to wear them.

"Oh, yes, but I'm having a dreadful time trying to occupy myself," she exclaimed. "I'm not used to such idleness, Peeta." How disturbing, to consider the fact that without the Games - well, she wasn't sure what else she could be doing, or could have done. The Games had always been her dream, and now they had soured, and she had nothing.