He turned back to her, and saw her expression. He could even see her pale under the makeup she was wearing. Through out their years together working in the hunger games, he'd always been the more calloused one towards death. And here he was again, forgetting exactly how sensitive she was to this.

"Eff," he started, standing up to go over to her. But then he realized he didn't know what to say. People died in fires. Those fires made their ashes and the winds carried their ashes where ever. And he knew Effie wasn't so naive not to realize that, so lying to her was out, "We can't change it now."