Once he's sure Jeremy's more or less on board, he maintains that distance for a while as he navigates his way toward one of the familiar trails of snares he'd set up. As they approach the first one, he intentionally shortens his stride until they're closer to walking in tandem, not wanting their conversation to carry any further than it has to.
"So where're you from?" he asks in an undertone, slanting a sidelong look at Jeremy. "What's your world like, what did you do?" While he'd barely seemed concerned with Jeremy's appearance before, he very deliberately takes it in now, without attempting to hide his scrutiny. His look is accessing in a passive, non-judgmental way.
Knowing more about him may or may not shed a little light on who the sponsor message was from, but that's only partially the reason Daryl's curious. Asking the Three Questions — standard procedure when bringing in anyone new to his group — out of context won't provide any useful information, since Jeremy's probably too recent an arrival to have killed any other Tributes at this point. Not to mention he hardly seems capable of it, though appearances can be deceiving...
So he'll have to try and figure the guy out the old fashioned way.
As luck would have it, there's a smallish rodent-like creature caught in the first snare, still alive, futilely struggling in the wire. Won't make much of a meal, but it's better than none. He kneels down and carefully frees it, carries it a short distance away and efficiently slits its throat with the ease of long practise, ensuring the animal won't suffer unnecessarily. After the initial spill of blood it quickly slows, and the struggling ceases with a final few twitches of a back leg. He ties the critter onto the length of rope hanging at his waist and returns to reset the snare.
cw: brief description of animal death
"So where're you from?" he asks in an undertone, slanting a sidelong look at Jeremy. "What's your world like, what did you do?" While he'd barely seemed concerned with Jeremy's appearance before, he very deliberately takes it in now, without attempting to hide his scrutiny. His look is accessing in a passive, non-judgmental way.
Knowing more about him may or may not shed a little light on who the sponsor message was from, but that's only partially the reason Daryl's curious. Asking the Three Questions — standard procedure when bringing in anyone new to his group — out of context won't provide any useful information, since Jeremy's probably too recent an arrival to have killed any other Tributes at this point. Not to mention he hardly seems capable of it, though appearances can be deceiving...
So he'll have to try and figure the guy out the old fashioned way.
As luck would have it, there's a smallish rodent-like creature caught in the first snare, still alive, futilely struggling in the wire. Won't make much of a meal, but it's better than none. He kneels down and carefully frees it, carries it a short distance away and efficiently slits its throat with the ease of long practise, ensuring the animal won't suffer unnecessarily. After the initial spill of blood it quickly slows, and the struggling ceases with a final few twitches of a back leg. He ties the critter onto the length of rope hanging at his waist and returns to reset the snare.