I tell him everything. About the president’s visit, about Gale, about how we’re all going to die if I fail. His face sobers, grows older in the glow of the red taillights. “Then you can’t fail.” “If you could just help me get through this trip —” I begin. “No, Katniss, it’s not just this trip,” he says. “What do you mean?” I say. “Even if you pull it off, they’ll be back in another few months to take us all to the Games. You and Peeta, you’ll be mentors now, every year from here on out. And every year they’ll revisit the romance and broadcast the details of your private life, and you’ll never,
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