"What else was there to do?" Neeshka shrugged, tail flicking to one side again and her ears pulled back just a little. "I mean, we're in this whole death-match thing, what if you wanted to kill me and I hadn't been paying attention?" It was sort of the truth-- it was certainly close enough to it. She did need to keep an eye on the other people here. Other tributes-- gods, what a word to use.

"Besides," she added, even more truthful and rather a bit covetous as she looked down at his hip, "you have a knife. I don't. You think I wouldn't keep an eye on you once I spotted that?" Nevermind that she had been plotting to steal it. Probably for the best that she not mention that bit.