Catching Fire #22

Catching Fire

Pg.311-326

5/9/11

Summary: Katniss jumps out to save Peeta from the mutant monkey morphling. Katniss is successful and bats the morphling away leaving Peeta to come over and stab the creature multiple times. Katniss loads her bow and arrow, turns around and is ready to kill more of these strange monkeys, but finds all of the morphlings to be fleeing away. Then the strangest thing happens; the half dead morphling starts to talk as if the Capital didn’t fully erase the human side to this creature. Katniss tries to save this poor human/ creature that only moments ago was trying to kill, but unfortunately, the morphing doesn’t make it out alive. However, Katniss has other things to worry about like the spots where the “fog” hit her skin for they have stopped hurting, but now itch beyond belief. Katniss tells her teammates not to scratch but has a hard time lessening to her own command. Katniss prays to Haymitch for something to help ease the pain, and in seconds she has some cream for the whole gang that stops the itching and causes the wounds to scab. Katniss wants to get out of the jungle, for she now thinks it is just a death trap, so she, Peeta and Finnick head down to the Cornucopia which is located by the ocean in the middle of the arena. However, Katniss finds that she isn’t the only one who wants to get out of the jungle for Johanna Mason, a District 5 tribute, Wiress and Beetee, “nuts” and “volts”, are at the Cornucopia as well. Both alliances don’t end up trying to kill each other, but rather end up joining forces because apparently Finnick and Joanna are good friends. Although Finnick is happy, Katniss and Peeta on the other hand would have preferred the two alliances didn’t join forces, mostly because Wiress and Beetee are “messed up” at the moment. Out of nowhere the two of them, Wiress and Beetee, would start repeating “Tick tock, tick tock” as if they were brainwashed. However, when Katniss is on guard later that night, it clicks to her why Wiress and Beetee are saying “Tick tock”. The arena is a circle, and Katniss realizes that the “fog”, morphlings, and thunder storms only happen in certain parts of the arena at certain times, always the same order, meaning that the whole arena could be a giant clock showing you the time of day!