Although Peeta tended to be optimistic about many things, this was one situation he was growing more and more skeptical over. It couldn't be this easy to leave an underground district, especially one that had been kept secret for... how many years? And yet when he looked over to Katniss she seemed so hopeful, so relieved, he couldn't bring himself to speak...

He reached for her hand again and held it instead, smiling slightly. Even as the elevator began to move to who knew where, he held on.