She had worried that she would feel trapped in a room after so long underground, and had planned to drag a mattress to the balcony to sleep in open air, but Gale is a familiar comfort. Rest is easy to find with his heartbeat under her ear and she burrows closer as his arm curls against her back.

"Didn't mean to stay gone so long," she whispers in the dark, the words stretching around another yawn. "Where is Tara?"