I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. And I remember when you... you sang in the music assembly and the teacher said... "Who knows The Valley Song?" and your hand shot straight up. After that, I... I watched you going home every day...

Katniss, there is no District Twelve.

You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.

Want a sugar cube?- Finnick Odair,

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.