Karla had known that her good mood from Kaeleer couldn't last forever, but she'd been hoping it would last longer than three days. Triela last week. And now she had to watch Katniss get chosen to die, even if the even itself was several weeks away. For a minute, she wondered why she was doing this. Why couldn't she just keep walking and pretend like nothing awful was happening?

The answer came down to what it always did. Pretending to be ignorant of it all didn't make the horrors go away. And Katniss had been--still was--her friend and had asked her to be here. So she could stand witness for those that fell and remember who they were and why they'd died.

For remembrance. As a reminder.

Karla knocked on the door.