( Katniss and Peeta had just reached the edge of the area containing the Cornucopia, when Cato smashed through the trees and bore down on them )

( '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 )

Katniss was losing all track of time.

( The only passage of time was marked by the sound of cannons that signified the deaths of the other tributes, here in her cave with Peeta )