Callan seemed to frown internally at him saying it was her decision but he did make a good point - it had only been a few months that she had found her birth family and she speculated that it would be difficult on all of them if she just up and left. However, she was assuming Asteria understood how hard it would be to have a child without the father present and wouldn't want that for her daughter or grandchild. "Alright, I'll call you from the capital after I've thought about it." Callan agreed and she sighed, "I'll call you in a few days. I love you."

"Fair enough." Zale said kind of pushing his food around on the plate as he thought. "I know this isn't something you want to talk about right now, but they're going to announce the quarter quell in about a week... What do you think they're going to do this time? Especially now that Ten is gone. Think they would pull extra tributes from another district randomly to make up for it?"