Gale's P.O.V
Sitting in the meadow I can't help but think about Katniss; who could be dying as I sit here, as helpless as ever. I need to hunt and check the snare line to see what I have caught. As soon as I've reached the other side of the fence I feel grateful for the distraction from the games watching my best friend die from starvation lying in a cave with a boy who is also slowly dying from a wound in his leg. I wish it would just hurry up and kill him so that Katniss could get out alive. If Prim's name had never been drawn out of the barrel she would be here with me right now and we would be happy and as safe as you can be in the District where as Katniss has described it many a time 'District 12- where you can starve in safety'.
I wish that Katniss could hurry up and tell me that she loves me and I could wrap my arms around her and kiss her, but instead she is spending all her last living hours planting her lips on some other guy's. She didn't even know that guy two weeks ago, and now there she is kissing him every 5 minutes when she isn't she's risking her life for his going to get medicine to save him. I hate the Capitol. As I reach the first snare I see that it has caught a rabbit, I carefully untangle the now dead rabbit from the trap and reset it continuing along the snare line. Every single second of the day I can't stop thinking about that girl I met in the woods all those years ago and now seeing the same girl in the arena, but she is so different. The Capitol has changed her, distorted her, they turned her into someone she isn't.
By this stage I was halfway down the snare line and I had found three rabbits, 2 turkeys and had collected a bagful of berries and other eatable plants. It was getting late so I didn't have enough time to check the rest of the snares and go and trade at the Hob, so I reset the last snare which had been triggered but failed to catch anything, turned around and started walking home. Hoping that when I walked through the front door I wouldn't come home to my mother crying and telling me in between sobs that Katniss died getting the medicine for him. If she dies getting the medicine for him, and he survives, I will never forgive myself for being absolutely useless when she needed me most.