Yet another reason for her not to have kept walking.

"..." She was at a loss for what to say. Even her reassurances were empty. There was no comfort she could give when she knew what Katniss had planned; her every step in training for these Games hadn't been to increase her odds to get back home, but to survive long enough to have Peeta win.

Katniss wasn't coming back to Fandom and anything she said to Wesley that made it seem like she was would feel like a lie.

Eventually, she just admitted the obvious. "Okay, this is an incredibly stupid question, but how are you holding up?"