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CATCHING FIRE -- CHAPTER 23
Katniss wakes everybody up and lets them know that they must continue moving in front of the hands of the clock. Wiress seems relieved when she learns that Katniss has figured it out. Wiress says a new word, “midnight,” but Katniss already knows that midnight is when the dangers begin.
It then clicks in Katniss’ head. When the new Head Gamemaker showed her his mockingjay watch and he said that the meeting he had to rush off to started at midnight, he was giving her a major hint. He told her ahead of time how the arena would work.
With her knowledge now understood, Wiress is able to return to her normal self. Beetee, on the other hand, is still rather quite dazed and he keeps asking for wire that was on his belt. Johanna doesn’t seem to understand why this wire is so precious to him, yet Katniss knows he used an electrical wire to win his Hunger Games. From her visible lack of knowledge, Katniss grows suspicious of Johanna.
The group decides to head to the safety of the Cornucopia where they can watch the Gamemaker’s traps go off like clockwork. The Cornucopia is certain to still hold some of the weapons too.
They follow one of the long strips of land to the Cornucopia. Once there, Wiress cleans the wire that they retrieved for Beetee, Johanna practices throwing some axes in the Cornucopia, and Peeta sketches out a map of the arena on a leaf.
Suddenly, Katniss realizes that they’re being attacked. Wiress has had her throat slit by Gloss who has appeared in the water, but Gloss is quick to die with an arrow from Katniss’ bow. Cashmere has also attacked them, but Johanna has thrown an axe directly at his chest. Brutus and Enobaria are unsuccessful in their attacks too and they start running away.
Katniss and her allies take chase, until the land they’re on starts to turn like a top. Katniss hangs on for her life, as do her allies. It stops and they’re all there except for Wiress who has been killed. Wiress’ body is out in the water, still holding Beetee’s wire. Just before a hovercraft takes away Wiress’ lifeless body, Katniss goes out and retrieves the wire from her dead grip.
The group now does not know what direction is which.
For all they know, as Beetee points out, the Gamemakers could have turned the whole outer region of the arena around too. The group chooses to go randomly into one direction, not knowing if they’re headed towards the next trap that the Gamemakers have synchronized to go off at a certain time.
They reach the jungle and Finnick goes off to make a hole in a tree for water. Peeta wanted to make the hole, but Finnick insisted on going instead so that Peeta could etch another map in a new leaf (he lost the original mapped leaf when the land spun around).
Katniss is trying to figure out why so many of the tributes seem to be trying to save Peeta. Finnick already saved him several times, Mags sacrificed herself for him, and Johanna has his back too. Katniss can only reason herself to believe that they are motivated by Peeta’s ability to orate and potentially lead a new revolution.
Katniss’ thoughts are interrupted by a scream in the forest that sounds like Prim. She runs off to save her sister.
by Suzanne Collins
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