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CATCHING FIRE -- CHAPTER 20
Katniss tries her best to wake up Peeta, but it doesn’t work. Finnick takes charge and begins CPR on him. At first Katniss believes Finnick is kissing him, but she soon realizes otherwise. She’s seen her mother do the same back at home. She knows it must be a common maneuver in the fishing district where he comes from.
Peeta begins to wake up and he warns them of the force-field in front of them. By now Katniss is sobbing and Finnick compares her to a baby. He also blames hormones on her emotions since she still is pregnant in his mind. Katniss is angry at the baby remark; however, she knows she owes Finnick for saving Peeta’s life.
Katniss then notices a necklace with a mockingjay charm that Peeta wears. She makes a comment on it and Peeta says that he wanted to have something like the pin that Katniss wears. Katniss knows that such a symbol will not make President Snow happy.
Finnick asks Katniss how she knew of the force-field. She learned of the force-field’s weakness, a ripple, when Beetee and Wiress pointed it out, but she doesn’t want to give the Gamemakers any clues that she knows of the chick in force-field’s armor. The Gamemakers might improve the force-field if she were to let her secret knowledge out. So, Katniss lies and says that she can hear a slight sound the force-field gives off through her left ear (her left ear was fixed and reconstructed better than ever after she injured it in the last Hunger Games).
Katniss insists on leading the group forward as they continue looking for water. Occasionally, she throws a nut that she’s gathered from trees out in front of her so that she can make sure she’s not leading them into the force-field. At one point, she notice Mags eating the nuts but is too late to stop her. They still don’t know if the nuts are poisonous.
They stop for a moment to briefly rest and so that Katniss can climb a tree to get a grasp of their surroundings. She climbs upwards and from the top she can see the entire arena: a dome that is created by the force-field with the Cornucopia lying right in the middle. She comes back down to let them know what she saw and she mentions that she didn’t see any water, other than the saltwater surrounding the Cornucopia.
Eventually, they make camp and with the know-how of Finnick and Mags, huts are created. They eat the nuts that Katniss has been using on the force-field, yet they are still without water. Katniss decides to venture out a bit in search of water. When she ventures away, the cannon booms and announces the death of eight tributes today.
Katniss takes a moment to check out the wildlife in the forest. She shoots a possum-like creature in a tree and she begins to prepare it for eating, taking note that its mouth is wet from drinking something. She looks around for the area where it must have been drinking, but she finds nothing.
Katniss then returns to the campground with her game. Peeta cooks the meat in the force-field for the group.
Later, the tributes who died that day are announced with their pictures shown high above in the sky. The dead tributes are the male from District Five, the male from District Six, the male and female from District Eight, the male and female from District Nine, the female from District Ten, and the female from District Eleven.
Just as the group is reflecting upon today’s deaths, a parachute floats down and inside it they find an object that nobody can quite figure out. Katniss stares at it while Peeta gives her a massage to ease her tension. She flashbacks to home, the woods, and her family. Then, suddenly she remembers what the object is.
The object is a spile. At home, her father would use them to bury into trees and serve as a faucet for sap. Here, they can probably use it as a faucet for water that’s within the trees. Using the awl that Mags keeps on her (an awl is kind of like a screwdriver with a pointed end), they are able to drill a hole into a tree. They put the spile inside the hole and enough water for all of them pours out.
With their thirst quenched, they doze off to sleep with Finnick awake and on the lookout. Katniss is awakened by a bell that rings twelve times. Finnick and Katniss are puzzled, but soon it begins to rain. The bell must have signified rain. Finnick tells Katniss to go back to sleep and she does.
The rain never reaches the group, however, the fog that comes after it does.
by Suzanne Collins
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