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The blowgun seems loaded with a single dart. I dropped the ball not taking the pouch and poison vial, but at least I’ve got one shot. It makes me feel nervous keeping a poisonous dart so close to my face, so I attach it to my belt with a bit of vine. Good-bye, Maysilee Donner,…

Ladybug, ladybug fly away home. Your house is on fire, your children are gone. All except one, who answers to Nan. She’s hiding under the frying pan. I join in as I continue to burn a door in the bushes, sweeping the flame from side to side. The stench of fried insects, chemicals, and burnt…

Not a bad poster, all in all. Snatches of sleep breed nightmares, and the dawn finds me weak and weary, like the guy in Lenore Dove’s poem. The arena leaves no time to properly grieve anyone and I’m left feeling cheated, shallow, and coldhearted. Louella, Ampert, Maysilee, everybody deserves far better. I just can’t generate…

I can barely hear her whisper. “One of us has to win this thing.” My eyes travel up the long stems to the arrow-shaped leaves, the white petals, concealing us from Capitol cameras. “Why’s that?” I whisper back. “One of us has to be the worst victor in history. Tear up their scripts, tear down…

We take inventory of our stuff, which seems fruitless until I spy the wineglass. I remember how the juice filled the entire stem. “How attached are you to this?” “Less attached than I am to water,” says Maysilee. Placing the glass carefully on the log, I chop off the base and the bowl, leaving a…

“No idea. Never had one.” She holds one out to me. “Suck on it for a bit, get the salt out. There’s a pit inside.” I place one on my tongue, assessing the smooth skin, the strange rich taste, tangy and metallic. “Not bad.” She deposits two more in my palm. I savor each one,…

Maysilee drains some of the liquid into a heart-shaped glass vial that hangs from one of her necklaces. “It’s designed for perfume, so it’s got a good tight lid to prevent evaporation. Just wish it held more.” She twists the tiny lid back on the heart. “How’d she die anyway? Lou Lou?” “Inhaling bee balm,”…

“But he does. All the male Careers are dead, Haymitch.” Maysilee loads her blowgun. “That’s either Hull or Buck.” I pull my knife and my ax. “Let’s go.” I ditch my pack in a patch of katniss and we take off toward the disturbance. I can’t shake the image of those baby mutts from my…

“You did great. I don’t know how you remembered them all.” “I focus on their colors. No more purple, no more electric blue, no more orange, or peach, or yellow. And just a smattering of the rest of us.” “Only two Careers left, though,” I say. “Wyatt would like those odds.” At the mention of…

What would Beetee do? For starters, he’d get me to the generator. He said it was at the top of the arena, and I must be close. The first thing will be to make it all the way north and find some way to break through the arena wall. I don’t even know if that’s…