Moving right along.
Chapter 14
Pages 185-194
The swelling. The pain. The ooze. Watching Glimmer twitching to death on the ground. It’s a lot to handle before the sun has even cleared the horizon.
Summary:
We join Kat back in her tree, trying to figure out what the hell to do about the wasp nest perched precariously above her. Normally this wouldn’t be too big of a deal, but it happens to be a tracker jacker nest – another of the Capitol’s genetically engineered animals. She decides her best chance is to sick the ravenous, poisonous, deadly little beasts on the Career Alliance down below. But how to do it without the wasps noticing? Smartly, Kat waits for the anthem to blare in the arena before she sets to work on sawing off the branch of the tree holding the nest.
Uncharacteristically of Katniss, she’s not fast enough to finish, so she’ll have to do it first thing in the morning.
Kat’s luck does begin to change for the better though, because as she makes her way back to her sleeping back from the nest, she finds a small pot of miracle medicine from her sponsors. She concludes she’s got to have multiple, because something as expensive as this would have to have several people going in. The salve all but neutralizes her burns, and Kat’s got full mobility again. HP boost +200!
Next morning Kat warns her little stalker from District 11 about what she’s planning, and Rue takes off. Kat finishes the job, but not before getting stung a good 3 times. Her scheme works though, and the Career Alliance lights out toward the lake to get away from the swarm. Glimmer and Girl 4 aren’t lucky or fast enough to get away, and succumb to the hive mind.
Apparently the affects of the wasp venom aren’t totally in effect yet, because Kat makes it back to her pool, albeit a little wobbly. Then suddenly, wait! Crap! That dumb ***** Glimmer had the bow and arrows. Kat knows if her body is taken out of the game, the bow and arrows will be lost forever. She bolts back to the clearing, only to be greeted with the two canon shots signifying both Glimmer and Girl 4’s deaths. Although Glimmer’s body is bloated, puss filled, and stinking, Kat perseveres and pries the bow from her cold, dead fingers – just in time to be greeted by the returning Careers Alliance. Lucky for her, the first one through the trees is Peeta-
who gets her on her feet and shoves her away. Effectively saving her life. Again. Wtf.
She runs and some trippy **** happens and our little heroine is fed up with this world and blacks out.
Thoughts:
Wow, I have no problem saying that this chapter was seriously disgusting. I think if anything from the book is cut for the movie it’s going to be this – unless it has some bigger effect later on down the line.
So Peeta saves Katniss’ life, but why? I seriously can’t figure this kid out. Every time I think I understand what he’s up to, he does something else. I don’t know what to think about him. I’m sure it’ll become clear at some point what his big idea is, but as of right now. Who knows. Maybe he does really love her. But I don’t think that’s the case. Maybe he’s still playing the love angle up to the sponsors, thinking he’ll get more stuff the longer Kat stays alive. This seems more plausible. Or maybe Kat hallucinated it, who knows.
I was so glad when Katniss got the medicine to take care of her burns. I would honestly rather see her at full strength, kicking ass, than struggling and weak. But just as she gets up, she gets knocked back down again by the wasp bites. Hopefully she gets through the effects and they wear off on their own relatively soon. And she’s got her bow and arrows now right? I really wanna see her nail someone.
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