Chapter 16

“Talk to me about something else, kyle, anything. Tell me about your young woman back home.”

“Katniss,” Kyle said automatically.

“Oh, so there is a young woman. Good. Tell me about her.”

“We’re just friends. Have been almost all our lives”

“Friends, huh? Well that’s how things usually start. Go on.”

“She is very clever, and she loves to read. She can keep more facts in her head than anyone I know. Her father says she is too smart for her own good. She is kind, but she does have a temper. You do not want to get on her bad sad,” smiled kyle. “She can make you feel like you are the only person that matters when she talks to you, and she is very pretty.

“She has really nice blonde hair and light blue eyes. She has the best smile. Her father is the blacksmith, so she was always at the stables with him. We are the same age, so we’ve always been just thrown together.”

“She sounds like an interesting young lady, and I like her already. I hope I get to meet her someday.”

Clarawas smiling now,