If you force me to leave, I’ll go directly to surgery and tell my mother everything that’s happened. Plutarch ushers the doctors out and tries to order Prim to go as well, but she says, “No. Prim comforts Katniss while she is busy attempting to heal and it leads to one fantastic set of lines of hers when Plutarch tries to make her leave so he can talk to Katniss about what happened. He’s been “hijacked.†By whom? By what? What does that mean? If I’d had a private reunion with Peeta, he would have killed me. But we have been so consumed with saving Peeta, so tortured by having him in the Capitol’s hands, that the elation at having him back blinded us. To catch both Haymitch and myself off guard is a rare thing. I know Haymitch would have come to my defense if he hadn’t been utterly unprepared. It was Boggs who knocked out Peeta with one blow before any permanent damage could be done. Even now, when I’ve been assured there will be no permanent damage, I hunger for air. At least I am no longer in the claustrophobic tube, while the machines click and whir around me, listening to a disembodied voice telling me to hold still while I try to convince myself I can still breathe. The cold collar chafes my neck and makes the shivering even harder to control. ![]() Intrigued? Then it’s time for Mark to read Mockingjay. In the thirteenth chapter of Mockingjay, it becomes apparent that the Capitol is more interested in psychological warfare than violence.
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