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“And you, sweetheart?” says Haymitch.<br />

Somehow Haymitch calling me sweetheart ticks me off<br />

enough that I’m at least able to speak. “I shot an arrow at the<br />

Gamemakers.”<br />

Everyone stops eating. “You what?” The horror in Effie’s<br />

voice confirms my worse suspicions.<br />

“I shot an arrow at them. Not exactly at them. In their direction.<br />

It’s like Peeta said, I was shooting and they were ignoring<br />

me and I just . . . I just lost my head, so I shot an apple out of<br />

their stupid roast pig’s mouth!” I say defiantly.<br />

“And what did they say?” says Cinna carefully.<br />

“Nothing. Or I don’t know. I walked out after that,” I say.<br />

“Without being dismissed?” gasps Effie.<br />

“I dismissed myself,” I said. I remember how I promised<br />

Prim that I really would try to win and I feel like a ton of coal<br />

has dropped on me.<br />

“Well, that’s that,” says Haymitch. Then he butters a roll.<br />

“Do you think they’ll arrest me?” I ask. “Doubt it. Be a pain<br />

to replace you at this stage,” says Haymitch.<br />

“What about my family?” I say. “Will they punish them?”<br />

“Don’t think so. Wouldn’t make much sense. See they’d<br />

have to reveal what happened in the Training Center for it to<br />

have any worthwhile effect on the population. People would<br />

need to know what you did. But they can’t since it’s secret, so<br />

it’d be a waste of effort,” says Haymitch. “More likely they’ll<br />

make your life hell in the arena.”<br />

“Well, they’ve already promised to do that to us any way,”<br />

says Peeta.<br />

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