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At first Katniss is totally up for backing up Gale’s plan. Then, she thinks about it and compares it to the mine deaths in District Twelve. It’s a death that she wouldn’t necessarily want to impose on the innocent workers who are forced to reside inside of the Nut.
Boggs then suggests that they avalanche all exits, but leave the train tunnel up and running. That way, people can escape out of the Nut and right into the clutches of the rebels.
The group decides that the eventual decision on what they’ll do is up to President Coin of District Thirteen.
Eventually, the decision comes to avalanche the mountain and leave the train tunnel open. Katniss is perches on the Justice Building in the center of the town while District Thirteen’s hoverplanes shoot at the mountain. The hoverplanes cause avalanches all around the mountain.
Meanwhile, Katniss flashbacks to the mine catastrophe that took the life of her father. She describes the actions she took, and some of the feelings she felt on that fateful.
Katniss is brought back to reality by Haymitch’s voice which comes through her earpiece. He orders her to get off the roof of the Justice Building and into the safety inside. If the Nut strikes back, then he wants her to be safe.
Inside the building, Boggs lets Katniss know that the train tunnel that leads into the Nut has been left untouched. People can escape if they find the means to. The train station is in the rebel’s hands even though some Peacekeepers outside can be heard trying to fight back control of it. The Peacekeepers want to secure the train station so that they can help with the Nut’s evacuation.
While they wait inside the Justice Building, Boggs lets Katniss know of some progress made with Peeta. He heard the song that Katniss sung, “The Hanging Tree,” and recognized it as a song he once heard Katniss’ father sing.
The night wares on and nobody exits from the Nut. It seems that the people inside must have perished in the avalanches. Peacekeepers, however, continue to battle for control of the train station.
Katniss is asked to use a microphone to give a speech which declares the official victory on the Nut. That way, perhaps, people will cease battling for control of the train station. She could potentially save lives through a speech.
Katniss is about to speak at the Justice Building when trains finally make their way from the Nut. The injured are armed and ready to fight. They have little chance for survival since they’re both surrounded by rebels and probably too weak to have a chance to do much harm.
Katniss observes an armed man who is severely injured fall to the ground. In a moment of instinct and compassion, she darts to him to try to help him. He reminds her of those who would become injured in the District Twelve mines. Unexpectedly, he points his gun at her. He asks why he shouldn’t kill her and she says that he has every reason to kill her. She, in fact, isn’t going to kill any more of the Capitol’s slaves. He retorts that he isn’t a slave.
Katniss goes on in an eloquent speech that is mostly improvised, but includes an idea here or there that’s fed to her from Haymitch through her earpiece. She points out that they are all pointing guns at each other, when they should instead be pointing their guns at the Capitol.
Katniss asks the wounded to join their plight against the Capitol just before she is shot.
MOCKINGJAY -- CHAPTER 15
BROWSE CONTENTS
by Suzanne Collins
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