District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.

No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.

I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me

The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing it out to me, insisting I acknowledge its progress and sometimes, for just a moment I feel a flicker of hope before the agony of the night engulfs me again.

The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt...and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.

I must have loved you a lot.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.