Katniss
I slowly blink open my eyes. Glimmer is sitting next to me, staring down at me.
"Good morning, sleepyhead," she smirks. Which I can tell is painful since she winces afterwards.
I give her a small smile. My eyes then drift down to the vile in her hand. "What's that?"
Glimmer attempts a painful shrug. "I dunno. It just flew in here while you were out. Probably from your sponsors."
I nod and grab the vile. "Looks like medicine." I take some out and put it on my tracker jacker stings, and sigh in relief. I then try to give it to Glimmer.
Glimmer tries to take it, but grimaces when she tries to move. I decide to put it on for her.
After I apply the medicine, both Glimmer and I are feeling better, and we are hungry. I reach into my bag and pull out some of the plants I had collected earlier and offer some to Glimmer.
"What's this for?" She asks when she takes it.
"You are hungry, right?" I ask.
"Yes, but-"
"So I gave you food!"
"Katniss, this is a plant."
"I know."
"Are you crazy? Who eats plants?"
"People who know how to survive. I'm from District 12, remember?"
"What's that gotta do with-"
"Trust me. I know what to do."
Glimmer gives me a disgusted look, but eats the plant anyway.
"See, it's not so bad," I say, as I chew on my own.
"It tastes like leaves!"
"It is leaves, Glimmer."
She shudders. "Yuck!"
"You want to stay alive, don't you?"
"Well, yeah, but-"
"Then you'll have to get used to eating leaves."
"Even those leaves?" Glimmer points to the leaves in the trees.
"No, only certain kinds of leaves. My father had a book where he added edible plants to. That's how I know where to find them."
"Well, if it's kept you alive this far."
"You know what will keep us alive longer?"
"What?"
"Me getting to use that bow. You got any arrows left?"
"A few."
"Good. When you can defend yourself again I'm going to hunt."
"Animals or tributes?"
I hesitate for a second. "Animals. We need food."
Glimmer gives me a pondering look. "We'd get better food if we won the Games."
"Yeah, well we're not winning the Games if we can't even keep our strength up and defend ourselves."
Glimmer nods, thoughtfully. Then, she asks me something that in a million years I would never know how to answer. Not with the cameras around us taping our every move, anyway.
"Katniss, do you really love Peeta?"
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