"Yeah, but we raised them well. They'll do great."

He knows what she means. But he also knows that they've been working very hard on monitoring conditions in the lake, ensuring they'll have enough food, and making sure the fish have had the best possible start with the best possible nutrition and conditions under the circumstance. A circumstance which includes Cho no longer being here and neither Finnick nor Annie having actually been fish farmers in more than education before they came here. But they've been studying as best they can from the available books, and Annie remembered a lot more from school than Finnick did.

So far, it's working. And these fish will add to the ecosystem they're trying to support in the lake.

"How's your bucket going?" The fingerlings in the two buckets Finnick had carried look as lively as they can in their limited space. That's good.