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they head straight for the deadliest-looking weapons in the<br />

gym and handle them with ease.<br />

I’m thinking that it’s lucky I’m a fast runner when Peeta<br />

nudges my arm and I jump. He is still beside me, per Haymitch’s<br />

instructions. His expression is sober. “Where would<br />

you like to start?”<br />

I look around at the Career Tributes who are showing off,<br />

clearly trying to intimidate the field. Then at the others, the<br />

underfed, the incompetent, shakily having their first lessons<br />

with a knife or an ax.<br />

“Suppose we tie some knots,” I say.<br />

“Right you are,” says Peeta. We cross to an empty station<br />

where the trainer seems pleased to have students. You get the<br />

feeling that the knot-tying class is not the Hunger games hot<br />

spot. When he realizes I know something about snares, he<br />

shows us a simple, excellent trap that will leave a human<br />

competitor dangling by a leg from a tree. We concentrate on<br />

this one skill for an hour until both of us have mastered it.<br />

Then we move on to camouflage. Peeta genuinely seems to enjoy<br />

this station, swirling a combination of mud and clay and<br />

berry juices around on his pale skin, weaving disguises from<br />

vines and leaves. The trainer who runs the camouflage station<br />

is full of enthusiasm at his work.<br />

“I do the cakes,” he admits to me.<br />

“The cakes?” I ask. I’ve been preoccupied with watching the<br />

boy from District 2 send a spear through a dummy’s heart<br />

from fifteen yards. “What cakes?”<br />

“At home. The iced ones, for the bakery,” he says.<br />

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