Item from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A small white pearl pressed into Katniss's hand during the Quarter Quell — the last pure thing Peeta gave her before the Capitol broke his mind and turned him into a weapon against her.
On the beach in the Quarter Quell arena, Peeta found a pearl in an oyster and gave it to Katniss. No strategy, no cameras, no performance — just a boy who knew he was going to die giving the girl he loved something beautiful from the killing ground. Katniss kept it. When Peeta was captured by the Capitol and hijacked with tracker jacker venom, his memories of her rewritten into fear and hatred, the pearl became Katniss's anchor to the real Peeta — the one who existed before Snow's torture. She held it during his worst episodes, when hijacked-Peeta screamed that she was a mutt, a monster, a threat. The pearl is proof that some things can't be unmade, even when everything else has been.
A small, perfectly round white pearl. Smooth and luminous. Small enough to close a fist around. Katniss carries it everywhere after the Quarter Quell — in her pocket, in her hand when she can't sleep.
Also known as: Peeta's pearl, the pearl