Chapter 17
Pages 222-232
Absolutely, positively, I am live on every screen in Panem. “No blood trails,” I tell myself, and manage to pull my hood up over my head…
Summary:
Poor Katniss gets the wind knocked out of her from the impact of the explosion. Crap, not good. Every time I think she’s back at full strength she gets knocked down. But she gets up again. You aint never gonna keep her down!
Except apparently you can, because Katniss’ equilibrium is totally shot after that explosion. She tries to get up but the world is a spinnin’ and she comes crashing back to earth. She takes stock of her situation and realizes she’s bleeding from her left ear – double not good. Plus the Careers obviously heard that massive explosion and are running back to their camp. Triple not good. Kat’s all but ready to throw in the towel and let Cato kill her; but wait! Imagining poor Madge back in District 12 having to watch her lover brutally murdered spurs Katniss on with great passion! Or, it could have been Prim. I don’t know. Either way. It takes all of Katniss’ great and mighty lesbian strength, but she manages to pull herself into her hiding spot just as the Careers fling themselves through the trees. Close call!
Cato is so full of RAGE that he’s ripping out his hair and beating the ground, and Katniss pretty much just laughs in his face. Or she would be if she wasn’t metaphorically pissing her pants with fear. Y’know, since Cato just snapped the District 3 boy’s neck with his bare hands. Now gimpy is the last man standing with no name.
The Careers assume that whoever blew up the supplies has also been blown up themselves, and any remains have been taken away by a hovercraft by now, so they elect not to start searching the woods around their camp. Silly Careers, this gives Katniss the perfect opportunity to grab a hold of her **** and settle in for the night. Unfortunately, the explosion earlier has caused our heroine to go – hopefully temporarily – deaf. Uh oh, Katniss’ beast master senses are on the fritz, I don’t like the look of this.
But Kat isn’t backing down, and challenges Cato in her head. Going so far as to say that the 74th Hunger Games have really now just begun. Ooooh, burn!
Kat is now freezing as she gave Rue her sleeping bag (ever the older sister), but luckily the next morning someone comes along to warm her up. It’s Foxface and she’s dancing again, happy the Careers got what was coming to them. Kat considers revealing herself to Foxy, but ultimately decides that the end result would be a knife in the back. Obviously that's a metaphor and there's a deeper meaning behind it. I'll let your mind wander with that one. Foxface takes off and Katniss is left to slink away, back to the spot she and Rue decided to meet at after the fireworks. Unfortunately, Rue is nowhere to be found, so Katniss busies herself with eating and washing the blood out of her clothes while she waits. Being the courageous young half deaf hunter that she is, Katniss decides to go find out just what the heck is taking Rue so long.
As if on cue, Katniss hears the mockingjays signing Rue’s four note tune. Letting her know she’s alright. Katniss thinks she’s close, so she sings back. Knowing Rue must be somewhere in the area.
And then!
…and then…
There’s a lot of screaming out of names, and not in a good way. Rue is trapped; caught in a mesh net. Katniss runs into the clearing, reaches out to Rue, it’s fine – she’s gonna save her.
Right? She’s gonna save her isn’t she?
And then Rue is stabbed hard by a spear.
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