Here's some advice. Stay alive.

Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

My words hang in the air. I look to the screen, hoping to see them recording some wave of reconciliation going through the crowd. Instead I watch myself get shot on television.

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.

Only.. I want to do die as myself

My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.