Katniss wakes up to a burning forest and quickly manages to unbuckle herself from the tree. Following the woodland creatures she starts booking it out of the forest when she decides that this fire must have been made by the Gamemakers. The Gamemakers tend to be the cause of crazy things in the games to add a little flare. I guess that'd kind of be like girls and gossip. Not that I'm supporting it, but if you think about it, if we didn't gossip what would we really talk about? It all just makes life a bit more interesting. Anyway, while she's running through the woods her, the bottom half of her jacket catches on fire, which she manages to distinguish, and then she starts throwing up everywhere. When she's resting these big fireballs are being shot at her, most likely by a Gamemaker that's hidden somewhere. Once again she starts running and her calf gets hit by a fireball leaving her calf scorched.
She made it back to her little pond where she relieves herself by putting her burnt body into the water. Finally able to rest for a few moments Katniss falls asleep. It's not long before she hers the Career tributes running near her, which sends her painfully climbing up a nearby tree. The Careers spot Katniss in the tree, and one boy tries to climb up the tree while a girl tries to shoot Katniss with an arrow, however they both fail. Katniss hopes she'll be able to get her hands on the girl's bow soon.
With the Careers camped out at the base of the tree, Katniss spends the night in the tree and spots a mysterious pair of eyes. At first thinking it was an animal, she learns that the eyes belong to the little girl who followed her and Peeta around in the training center named Rue. She's pointing to something in the tree above Katniss's head. That something is a tracker jacker nest (another awkward hybrid made by the Capital). She starts freaking out because just a few stings from these killer wasps can make you hallucinate and even kill you! If you somehow survive the stings these wasps can track you down (hence the name tracker jacker).
Katniss creates a brilliant plant to cut down the branch that is holding the nest, with hopes that it will land on the Careers below her. In her bed she finds a little silver pot from Haymitch (he finally came through for her!). It's a small container filled with this special ointment that provides instant relief for her burn. Rue and Katniss's eyes meet again and Katniss now discovers Rue's talent; Rue can leap from tree to tree.
The next morning she saws off the branch, the nest falls, and a storm of tracker jackers fills the air. Unfortunately, she manages to get stung three times; however, she's smart enough to pull the stingers out. One of the girl Careers gets stung and beings to seize. As a result of the stings, Katniss's body is swollen and in pain. Luckily she still has enough common sense left after the stings to grab the dead Career's bow and quiver. Accomplishing this was not so easy surprisingly. She struggled to lift the dead body from the quiver while she slowly began to hallucinate. Out of the woods, not sure if it's real or just a mirage, she sees Peeta telling her to run. She takes off running and continues to battle with the hallucinations. Still in a daze, Katniss thinks that Peeta just saved her life from the Careers. Suddenly, everything goes black (by the way she's out for two days). Why did he do it? Was it because he truely loves Katniss and wants to spare her from the Careers? Or is it because he's playing up the 'loverboy' thing trying to win himself more sponosors? Well...I don't know quite yet.
Katniss wakes up alive and in a hole filled with leaves. She can't help but wonder how long she's been out or who else was effected by the tracker jackers. Keeping her mind focused on the game, Katniss remembers that she has a bow and arrow now! Without hesitation, she starts hunting and instantly succeeds; she manages to not only kill a rabbit, but also find a stream as well. Still keeping her guard up Katniss washes herself and her clothes in the river. The mental picture I got was similar to what you would see in the commercials about families in Africa or some other poor country in the world.
Katniss kills a bird and starts to cook her findings for dinner. She spots Rue in the woods and invites her to join her for dinner. To repay Katniss, Rue heals Katniss's wounds from the tracker jackers by chewing some leaves into a gummy paste then putting it on the welt. The two girls form an alliance and begin to learn more about each other. Being from the agricultural district, Rue knows exactly which kinds of nuts, berries, etc. are fine to eat.
Rue spots the sunglasses that Katniss found in the backpack from the Cornucopia. Katniss tells her how they're useless and only make her vision worse. Rue explains that they aren't sunglasses, but that they're some type of night vision glasses. Katniss tells Rue how she thinks that Peeta saved her life from the other Careers. Rue says that she has been spying on the Careers and that Peeta has left their group. By spying, Rue finds out that the Careers also have two pairs of night vision glasses also.
Rue talks about how she and Katniss are a lot weaker than the Careers because they're not as strong. Katniss disagrees explaining that they are strong because they know how to deal with being hungry all the time, unlike the Careers. Thinking this is pointless, Rue tells her that the Careers aren't hungry because they have all of the supplies to survive. This point turns on Katniss's light bulb and she starts to create a plan against the Careers.
More to come I promise! What will Katniss's plan be against the Careers? Will she and Rue make it til the end together? What happens with Peeta? Find out soon! Thanks for reading.
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