I have been called in to make an appearance to a televised meeting about the damage done in the districts. I really don't want to go. I'd much rather sit in my cell and think about how I failed to protect Katniss in the arena. It's been four weeks and I still haven't heard anything about her. It's really cold in my cell but it doesn't bother me. I start to shiver but I don't care.
Just that second two peacekeepers come into my cell to take me into the meeting. They take me through the underground prison into the large door leading to the staircase. We walk past Johanna's cell. She's just sitting on her bed clinging to the wall in pain. I would feel sorry for her but I can't feel anything right now.
We make it in to the hall where I am seated next to Snow. There is about a thousand people in the audience. I don't know why this meeting is so important anyway. Just a bunch of people talking about the damage in the districts and the Capitol.
The camera is set up right in front of me. "Twenty seconds until air" I hear someone in the crowd scream. My legs are chained to my chair as are my arms. I don't understand the point in this. I'm not going anywhere. I don't want to go anywhere, except home but that's way out of the question seeing as the Capitol blew it to bits after the games.
The light on the camera turns red and the president starts talking about a broken dam in 7, and some train but I'm not really paying attention.
I'm staring at the ground when I hear people start to sigh; I look up to find Katniss on the screen. The second I see it I'm kinder glad then I realise that this may cause danger to her. I'm watching the screen and notice that she's standing in front of my bakery. It's burnt to ashes but it's still my bakery.
When the clip is over I notice the look on Snow's face. And he's not happy. But then he asks me what my parting thoughts are about Katniss Everdeen and tonight's demonstration. Now I'm nervous.
I can hear Snow whispering into one of the peacekeepers ears. "That's it tonight we are going to Thirteen and that will be the end."
I hesitate and reply to Snow's question "Katniss...how do you think this will end? What will be left? No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the districts. And you...in Thirteen..." I inhale sharply fighting for air. I know I will be regretting this later but I still finish my sentence. "Dead by morning!"
I hear Snow scream "End it" furiously. I try to continue the warning about the bombing but as I am about to open my mouth, a peacekeeper knocks down the camera and punches me across the mouth. I give a small yelp, my blood splatters everywhere, I'm still chained when I turn back around and I get another one right across the face except this one leaves me unconscious.
