Catching Fire #9

Catching Fire

Pg.120-135

3/10/11

Summary: Katniss finds herself dead asleep on the table next to Gale. Peeta eventually wakes her up, and sends her off to bed. While in bed, Katniss has a horrid dream of The Hunger Games, and wakes up with sweat pouring down her face. She realizes that it is already dawn, and there is a blizzard occurring outside, so she walks downstairs to check on Gale. She could tell that the medication was wearing off. Her mother gives Gale a “snow coat”, and Katniss can immediately see the decrees in swelling. Katniss asks her mother where Peeta is because she wants to talk to him and Haymitch more about the plan, and finds out that he has gone home because of the weather. Once the storm passed a few days later, Katniss goes out to the Square with Peeta. She is expecting it to be deserted because of the recent storm so they can talk, but is totally wrong. They find all new construction made by the Peacekeepers, including an official whipping post. They decide to go back split up, and go back home. On Katniss’s way back home, she realizes just how empty the streets were. However, the storm caused the mines to shut down, and the prices of food to rise, which is starving many families. Anyways, Katniss cannot fall to sleep later that night, and decides to go out into the woods. She uses high-tech snow gear because of all of the snow they have gotten, and wonders out into the woods using the mining trails. She wants to go back to the pond and remember all of the good memories she and her dad had there, for this may be Katniss’s last time she goes into the woods with all of the new construction. However, she is stopped short by the unmistakable sound of a gun. She turns around, armed with her bow and arrow, to find a Peacekeeper. However, the woman drops her gun and holds something in her hand. Katniss’s mockingjay!