We won’t go far. We’ll use our own bows. You can have the meat for the kitchen,” adds Gale.
No viewer could turn away from the show now. From the Gamemakers’ point of view, this is the final word in entertainment.
Start with that. Chaos. No control, no law, no government at all. Like being in the arena. Where do we go from there? What sort of agreement is necessary if we’re to live in peace? What sort of social contract is required for survival?
I volunteer!” I gasp. “I volunteer as tribute!” There’s.
She snags Gale, who’s in a conversation with Plutarch, and spins him toward us. “Isn’t he handsome?” Gale does look striking in the uniform, I guess. But the question just embarrasses us both, given our history. I’m trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
He’s fighting it, probably more for me than for him, and it’s hard because unconsciousness would be its own form of escape. But the adrenaline pumping through my body would never allow me to follow him, so I can’t let him go. I just can’t.
My prep team. My foolish, shallow, affectionate pets, with their obsessions with feathers and parties, nearly break my heart with their good-bye. It’s.
Laughter changes to screams, blood stains pastel stones, real smoke darkens the special effect stuff made for television.
I feel that thing again. The thing I only felt once before. In the cave last year, when I was trying to get Haymitch to send us food. I kissed Peeta about a thousand times during those Games and after. But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of making my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.
Prim... Rue... aren’t they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one had the right to treat them as they have been treated? Yes. This is the thing to remember when fear threatens to swallow me up.
Girl talk. That thing I’ve always been so bad at. Opinions on clothes, hair, makeup.
I want to start an uprising,” I say.
What about my family?” I say. “Will they punish them?
Tick, tock,” I hear behind me. I turn and see Wiress has crawled over. Her eyes are focused on the jungle.
I don’t try to move away. Why should I, anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. “I love you.
Like our home, this is a place that he has no right, but ultimately every right, to occupy. I.
How about my head?” teased Lucy Gray. Coriolanus leaned over and kissed her. “Okay, that’s a start.
Suddenly Gregor smiled. “Hey, Boots,” he said. “Hey. You can finally say my name.
If two people agree on a signal, they stay in range. Because if one of them doesn’t answer, they’re in trouble, all right?
What a welcome sight. You know, it’s funny how often people forget that presidents need to eat, too,” President.