[Guy doesn't tell him to leave. He looks up with the expression of someone not used to unprovoked kindness. Back home, when he was young, there was Phil and Hope and Dawn, back before he'd lost his parents. But he'd been young then. And afterward, it'd just been him and Belt.]
[And Eep. At least with Eep, he'd sat with her by the fire and watched the delight on her face. But later with her family, there'd been the log for a while and Grug disliking him in the beginning. He'd had to win them all over.]
[And in the Capitol and the arenas, he'd often done something for people to be kind. Spared someone from a trap after questioning them in the beginning, mercy killed Mindy, earned his way into people's good graces with kindness or shared resources.]
[It was rare that someone came to him first and said, "Here have some food" or "How are you holding up?"]
[And he's never had reason to hide anything in his voice. He doesn't really know how to keep his emotions off his (nonexistent) sleeve.]
[And Dan can hear that in his soft, surprised:] Thank you.
[He takes the box into his hand to root through it.]
Does any of this have dairy? Because it tastes good but I can't digest it.
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[And Eep. At least with Eep, he'd sat with her by the fire and watched the delight on her face. But later with her family, there'd been the log for a while and Grug disliking him in the beginning. He'd had to win them all over.]
[And in the Capitol and the arenas, he'd often done something for people to be kind. Spared someone from a trap after questioning them in the beginning, mercy killed Mindy, earned his way into people's good graces with kindness or shared resources.]
[It was rare that someone came to him first and said, "Here have some food" or "How are you holding up?"]
[And he's never had reason to hide anything in his voice. He doesn't really know how to keep his emotions off his (nonexistent) sleeve.]
[And Dan can hear that in his soft, surprised:] Thank you.
[He takes the box into his hand to root through it.]
Does any of this have dairy? Because it tastes good but I can't digest it.