They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.

They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!

Each time I wake,I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.

Peeta crouches down on the other side of her and strokes her hair. When he begins to speak in a soft voice, it seems almost nonsensical, but the words aren’t for me. “With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.

I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.