It was only natural that the district Katniss wanted to visit the very least was their first stop. The day before had been spent in prep on the train, since only her hands and face had been made over before ( Read more... )

( 'You’re better,' Katniss said when she woke later to Peeta tending the wound on her forehead )

The woods always looked different at night. Even with the special night-vision glasses Katniss had managed to secure at the beginning of the Games, everything had an unfamiliar slant to it. As if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

( Katniss didn't try anything tricky, like taking a new route )