Katniss's eyes widened, because not only was it a mutt that talked -- it was a mutt that had it's own species? But ... wait ... she pressed her lips together, keeping her arrow level on the great, yellow beast.
"Lions are extinct. They died out, ages ago. They aren't even in the private zoos of the Capital anymore." Killed, in the ages before her age. Well before the Capital.
A pause, and an almost accusatory, "And they didn't talk."
Another pause, with a wary addition, "...This isn't Panem, though. Talking lions ... probably aren't that strange, here."
Re: HAHA. going to assume this is a little later so I don't have to do the intro again, ok?
"Lions are extinct. They died out, ages ago. They aren't even in the private zoos of the Capital anymore." Killed, in the ages before her age. Well before the Capital.
A pause, and an almost accusatory, "And they didn't talk."
Another pause, with a wary addition, "...This isn't Panem, though. Talking lions ... probably aren't that strange, here."