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telling me to do exactly what the stylists tell me to do. If it was<br />

anyone but Cinna, I might be tempted to ignore him. But after<br />

last night’s triumph, I don’t have a lot of room to criticize his<br />

choices.<br />

I’m nervous about the training. There will be three days in<br />

which all the tributes practice together. On the last afternoon,<br />

we’ll each get a chance to perform in private before the Gamemakers.<br />

The thought of meeting the other tributes face-toface<br />

makes me queasy. I turn the roll I have just taken from<br />

the basket over and over in my hands, but my appetite is gone.<br />

When Haymitch has finished several platters of stew, he<br />

pushes back his plate with a sigh. He takes a flask from his<br />

pocket and takes a long pull on it and leans his elbows on the<br />

table. “So, let’s get down to business. Training. First off, if you<br />

like, I’ll coach you separately. Decide now.”<br />

“Why would you coach us separately?” I ask.<br />

“Say if you had a secret skill you might not want the other<br />

to know about,” says Haymitch.<br />

I exchange a look with Peeta. “I don’t have any secret<br />

skills,” he says. “And I already know what yours is, right? I<br />

mean, I’ve eaten enough of your squirrels.”<br />

I never thought about Peeta eating the squirrels I shot.<br />

Somehow I always pictured the baker quietly going off and<br />

frying them up for himself. Not out of greed. But because town<br />

families usually eat expensive butcher meat. Beef and chicken<br />

and horse.<br />

“You can coach us together,” I tell Haymitch. Peeta nods.<br />

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