Emily attempts a smile, one that she hopes is both reassuring and apologetic, but she knows that it won't go very far to assuage the concerns he has about being brought here, and moreover what he's expected to do here. She wishes that she could feel more sympathy for the Tributes, but apart from the very youngest of them she's mostly just grateful that they've been brought here to fight so that her own people don't have to. She rises from the sofa in the common area of the suite, abandoning the pile of magazines she'd been trawling through for mention of her Tributes, gesturing for him to sit with her.

"I know it's strange, but it will be okay."