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Using coaxing and kisses, Katniss gets Peeta to eat some of the broth. She eats as well, and then Peeta drifts off to sleep. She uses a wet bandage to keep his fever down at night. Later in the morning, Katniss gathers berries for food and Peeta wakes up. When she gets back from gathering berries, they comment on who is left in the game and they comment on how much better off he is now than he was the previous day. When Katniss tries to touch Peeta’s cheek, he kisses her hand and she remembers how her father once did the same thing to her mother. She wonders if it’s a coincidence that Peeta uses the same move as her father.
Peeta convinces Katniss that she should get some rest while he stands guard. He brushes her hair as she dozes off.
Later after she has slept, Katniss takes a look at Peeta’s leg and she notices that he is now suffering from blood poisoning. Peeta also knows of the poisoning. The only cure for this ailment is an expensive medicine that they probably will never get parachuted to them. They will have to make do and Peeta will have to hang in there while the other tributes lose at the Games.
Katniss then steps away for a moment to create a stew. Using hot rocks she’s gathered she is able to heat up the stew. When she returns to Peeta he asks for her to tell her a happy story from her life. Katniss divulges how she got her goat, but she keeps the first part of the story which involves illegal poaching and selling of an illegally hunted deer a secret. Instead, she says that she got the money for the goat from a locket that belonged to her mother that she sold. With the money in hand, she went to the Goat Man and purchased an injured goat that the Goat Man had promised to the butcher. Luckily, the butcher refused to buy the goat when she saw how injured it was. In reality, the butcher probably just wanted to let Katniss have the goat after she saw how badly Katniss wanted it.
After telling Peeta the story, the trumpets sound with Claudius Templesmith giving a new announcement. They are going to have a feast for all of the tributes, and at the cornucopia each tribute can find a backpack filled with items that they require. Katniss says that she’s not going to go, however, Peeta can tell she’s lying. Peeta insists on going with Katniss, but Katniss knows that he wouldn’t make it. he says that she has to go alone. However, Peeta is very persistent and they finally agree that he can go if he does as Katniss says, including eating, drinking, and waking up when she tells him to.
Katniss steps out to the stream when a parachute comes down which holds a vial of sleep syrup. She knows that she has to drug Peeta so he falls asleep while she goes off to the feast alone. She mashes up some berries, mixes in the sleep syrup, and forces Peeta to eat some of it. Peeta quickly dozes off to sleep.
THE HUNGER GAMES -- CHAPTER 20
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