The appearance of the first monster in Itinere should have been expected. She shouldn't have been so surprised when she had been in the forest, tracking down a wild hog, when she saw it. A strange looking muttation unlike any she's ever seen before. Despite its small size, the second the creature noticed her, it charged. The arrow meant for the hog landed in the eye of the monster instead. Her hunt had been forgotten at that point. It had seemed more pertinent to get home to Prim, and to warn Matt, than anything else.

That had been days ago. In the time since, she and Prim have set up refuge in the Houndstooth. It's not an agreement that had come easy to Katniss; trusting others is still hard. But when Itinere had threatened to fall apart, they had been safer in a group. She hasn't forgotten that. Or how people had helped her protect Prim. Keeping her sister alive is her top priority right now. Even hating herself for growing comfortable in Itinere can wait. She let her guard down. That's always a mistake. But she can hate herself for that later. She needs to get Prim through this alive. Get Prim through it, help Matt, and maybe do her best to keep Itinere's other citizens alive, too. Face it. Matt's altruistic behavior has started to rub off on her - or at the very least, she's developed some determination to please him.

Either way, she starts every day in the Houndstooth with a brief message on the network:

Does anyone need any food or water?

Then, after promising Prim she'll be careful, she packs up her hunting gear, slings the bag over her shoulder alongside her quiver and bow, and heads out. Katniss isn't a hero. She tends to get people killed more than she actually succeeds in saving them. There are actual heroes here in Itinere. People who can make that difference. Her boyfriend (is he her boyfriend? is that a word he'd be okay with her using?) is one of them. But she still wants to help. She wants to help in part to make it up to all those who have helped her and Prim in the past. She wants to help because it's kind of nice to have a purpose. Have something to do that'll make a difference to someone else.

She can raid grocery stores. And, for places like the Houndstooth, she can also head to the outskirt of the woods to hunt and harvest. If any of the muttation-like creatures cross her path, she'll do her best to hide. Katniss has no delusions of grandeur. There's only so much she can do with a bow and arrow. But she can hunt. She can feed people. That's necessary, important. And definitely worth the risk of her life.

Matt's suit showed up a few days after the monsters did. Maybe the city had decided it needed him, or maybe Matt was just ready to pick up the mantle of Daredevil again. Whichever it was, he's dived back into being a vigilante whole heartedly. He's spent every possible hour out in Itinere trying to save people. At first, he'd been hesitant about killing the monsters. He'd been very clear back home about taking lives, but the more often he fights these things the more clear it becomes they're not human and that relieves the guilt he would normally feel about taking lives. He's not a vegetarian and he's never picked up on the buddhist idea of not taking any life, human or otherwise. He may have studied many different kinds of combat, but spiritually he's remained very Catholic.

He hasn't been sleeping much since he picked up the suit, but he's used to that. In fact, in many ways he's more comfortable with this life style than he is with the one of relaxation and leisure he's been living since arriving in Itinere. He checks in every day with those that he's befriended: Derek, Claire, Katniss, Prim and Bo. He sleeps when he can, usually in his own apartment where he's got a sound machine that mimics the city back home.

For anyone that needs help, Matt is out there. He's listening from the tops of buildings for screams, for people in danger. He wants to help.