(Book 2)Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Author:Suzanne Collins
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2013-06-07T18:30:00+00:00

cliff and waits. When it flies back out and right into

his hand, he starts laughing.

That’s when we hear Maysilee begin to scream. The

alliance is over and she broke it off, so no one could

blame him for ignoring her. But Haymitch runs for

her, anyway. He arrives only in time to watch the last

of a flock of candy pink birds, equipped with long,

thin beaks, skewer her through the neck. He holds

her hand while she dies, and all I can think of is Rue

and how I was too late to save her, too.

Later that day, another tribute is killed in combat and

a third gets eaten by a pack of those fluffy squirrels,

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leaving Haymitch and a girl from District 1 to vie for

the crown. She’s bigger than he is and just as fast,

and when the inevitable fight comes, it’s bloody and

awful and both have received what could well be fatal

wounds, when Haymitch is finally disarmed. He

staggers through the beautiful woods, holding his

intestines in, while she stumbles after him, carrying

the ax that should deliver his deathblow. Haymitch

makes a beeline for his cliff and has just reached the

edge when she throws the ax. He collapses on the

ground and it flies into the abyss. Now weaponless as

well, the girl just stands there, trying to staunch the

flow of blood pouring from her empty eye socket.

She’s thinking perhaps that she can outlast

Haymitch, who’s starting to convulse on the ground.

But what she doesn’t know, and what he does, is that

the ax will return. And when it flies back over the

ledge, it buries itself in her head. The cannon sounds,

her body is removed, and the trumpets blow to

announce Haymitch’s victory.

Peeta clicks off the tape and we sit there in silence for

a while.

Finally Peeta says, “That force field at the bottom of

the cliff, it was like the one on the roof of the Training

Center. The one that throws you back if you try to

jump off and commit suicide. Haymitch found a way

to turn it into a weapon.”

“Not just against the other tributes, but the Capitol,

too,” I say. “You know they didn’t expect that to

happen. It wasn’t meant to be part of the arena. They

never planned on anyone using it as a weapon. It

made them look stupid that he figured it out. I bet

they had a good time trying to spin that one. Bet

that’s why I don’t remember seeing it on television.

It’s almost as bad as us and the berries!”

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I can’t help laughing, really laughing, for the first time

in months. Peeta just shakes his head like I’ve lost my

mind—and maybe I have, a little.

“Almost, but not quite,” says Haymitch from behind

us. I whip around, afraid he’s going to be angry over

us watching his tape, but he just smirks and takes a

swig from a bottle of wine. So much for sobriety. I

guess I should be upset he’s drinking again, but I’m

preoccupied with another feeling.

I’ve spent all these weeks getting to know who my

competitors are, without even thinking about who my

teammates are.

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