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could be another trap at night. When they come, it will be on<br />

their own terms, not because I’ve let them know my whereabouts.<br />

Stay put and get some sleep, Katniss, I instruct myself, although<br />

I wish I could start tracking Peeta now. Tomorrow,<br />

you’ll find him.<br />

I do sleep, but in the morning I’m extra-cautious, thinking<br />

that while the Careers might hesitate to attack me in a tree,<br />

they’re completely capable of setting an ambush for me. I<br />

make sure to fully prepare myself for the day — eating a big<br />

breakfast, securing my pack, readying my weapons — before I<br />

descend. But all seems peaceful and undisturbed on the<br />

ground.<br />

Today I’ll have to be scrupulously careful. The Careers will<br />

know I’m trying to locate Peeta. They may well want to wait<br />

until I do before they move in. If he’s as badly wounded as Cato<br />

thinks, I’d be in the position of having to defend us both<br />

without any assistance. But if he’s that incapacitated, how has<br />

he managed to stay alive? And how on earth will I find him?<br />

I try to think of anything Peeta ever said that might give me<br />

an indication as to where he’s hiding out, but nothing rings a<br />

bell. So I go back to the last moment I saw him sparkling in the<br />

sunlight, yelling at me to run. Then Cato appeared, his sword<br />

drawn. And after I was gone, he wounded Peeta. But how did<br />

Peeta get away? Maybe he’d held out better against the tracker<br />

jacker poison than Cato.<br />

Maybe that was the variable that allowed him to escape.<br />

But he’d been stung, too. So how far could he have gotten,<br />

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