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He is thought to be dead. Most likely he is dead. It is probably best if he is dead. . . .
He understands I don’t want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.
killed you, I think as I pass a pile. And you. And you.
It was my arrow, aimed at the chink in the force field surrounding the arena, that brought on this firestorm of retribution.
“Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem.”
He was, perhaps, genuinely attempting to enlist my help. But I had already set something in motion that I had no ability to control.
Burning. Still ...
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They only had the misfortune to have
Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.
can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.
Yes, other people had plans, I think. Has Peeta guessed, then, how the rebels used us as pawns? How my rescue was arranged from the beginning? And finally, how our mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, betrayed us both for a cause he pretended to have no interest in?
“All the people and things you loved or cared about almost cease to exist. The pink sky and the monsters in the jungle and the tributes who want your blood become your final reality, the only one that ever mattered. As
“It costs everything you are.”
no one has ever talked about what it’s really like in the arena before.
time, I give the people of 13 something I have withheld from them: credit. For staying alive against all odds.
“Katniss . . . he’s still trying to keep you alive.”
“I’m going to be the Mockingjay.”
She’s really gone, then.
Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.
“Because you want to or because you feel forced into it?” she asks. I
“It’s just . . . Peeta. I’m afraid if we do win, the rebels will execute him as a traitor.”
My prep team.
About who’s really in control and what happens if she’s not obeyed. If you had any delusions about having power, I’d let them go now. Apparently, a Capitol pedigree is no protection here. Maybe it’s even a liability.”
“Katniss, why do you care so much about your prep team?”
“Why shouldn’t I?”
“Hm. Let’s see. Because they’ve spent the last year prettying you up for slaughter?”
Hurting them, it’s like hurting children.
“They’ll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”
“They were Katniss’s,” says Gale quietly. “No one told her what to do or say.”
“Unscripted, yes!” says Beetee. He reaches over and pats my hand. “So we should just leave you alone, right?”
“Put her out in the field and just keep the cameras rolling.”
can’t believe you didn’t rescue Peeta.”
There’s a sense of incompleteness. And not because he hasn’t apologized. But because we were a team. We had a deal to keep Peeta safe. A drunken, unrealistic deal made in the dark of night, but a deal just the same. And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed.
“I can’t believe you let him out of your sight that nigh...
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“We’re still in the game.”
“Still in. And I’m still your mentor.”
“When you’re on the ground, remember I’m airborne. I’ll have the better view,...
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“We named them nightlock in your honor, Katniss. The rebels can’t afford for any of us to be captured now. But I promise, it will be completely painless.”
Cinna, it seems, has thought of everything.
want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I’m right here in District Eight, where the Capitol has just bombed a hospital full of unarmed men, women, and children. There will be no survivors.”
“I want to tell people that if you think for one second the Capitol will treat us fairly if there’s a cease-fire, you’re deluding yourself. Because you know who they are and what they do.”
“This is what they do! And we must...
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“President Snow says he’s sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts ...
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“Fire is catching!”
“And if we burn, you burn with us!”
we wouldn’t want to lose our little Mockingjay when she’s finally begun to sing.”
We Remember.
“A tribute to your tributes, as it were,”
“Don’t be a fool, Katniss. Think for yourself. They’ve turned you into a weapon that could be instrumental in the destruction of humanity. If you’ve got any real influence, use it to put the brakes on this thing. Use it to stop the war before it’s too late. Ask yourself, do you really trust the people you’re working with? Do you really know what’s going on? And if you don’t . . . find out.”
