Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.

We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemakers to amaze them with our skills, but I don't know what any of us might have to show them. There's a lot of kidding about it at lunch. What we might do. Sing, dance, strip, tell jokes. Mags, who i can understand a little better now, decides she's just going to take a nap.

I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.

Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.

So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.