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Johanna Mason lives in a small cabin in the heart of the District 7 forest. I am pretty sure that she has more axes in her living room than there are trees in this place. I find out that the Capitol is after her because she killed President Snow's granddaughter. She had to move away from everyone she knew and live in the forest. We sit around her kitchen table drinking hot chocolate and feeling uncomfortable because of the sheer number of axes. I count twenty just in this room. Johanna catches me counting them and grins.
"You can never have too many pointy things in your house, right?"
This crazy lady is my Godmother.
My Mother sighs and shakes her head at Johanna, but I can see her smiling slightly. She has not seen her friend in so long.
"So what brings you people to my humble abode?" She says sarcastically. The place is a mess. There are animal pelts and bones everywhere, her sink is filled with dirty dishes and her television has a crack through the middle. My guess is that she got mad at the sports channel and threw an axe.
"A tunnel, duh." Mitch says. Now that the adrenaline has faded he is annoyed that I woke him.
"Yeah I know that, smartass. But why are you?" She rolls her eyes. My Mother tells her everything, from why we came to what happened to Annie and Finlay.
"Plutarch has a man based in the President's mansion, right?" Katniss asks.
"Yeah, he does. Part of the reason I moved here was so I could keep contact with him about a third rebellion. Shooting that grandkid of Snow's just gave me another reason." She responds.
"I need to find out if it's true. I'm not rushing in to try and save them if it's not true. There won't be anyone there tosave."
"I can get Plutarch to find out. What about Annie and Finnick's son?"
"I was thinking you and me could bust them out of prison. We can leave Lillia-Primrose and Mitch here. Isn't Blight's brother your boyfriend? He can look after them."
"Hmm. Force isn't going to be very happy about that, he hates kids. If Lillia can hunt then he'll look after them." Johanna says. I almost laugh at his name. Blight died because he hit the force field, and his brother's name is Force? I thought I had an unlucky name.
"She can." My Mother says. "And we'll only be gone a day if we take your hovercraft."
"But I want to come with you! It's my fault they're in this mess, I want to get them out of it." I exclaim. Annie and Finlay could have been tortured because I made Finlay tell me what he knows.
"You can't be the hero all of the time, Lillia-Primrose. Your time will come next rebellion." My Mother snaps at me. Her words sting me.
"You were the hero when you were my age. Let me help you!"
"Lillia-Primrose Rue Everdeen, if you think I'm going to take you into a heavily guarded Capitol prison then you're highly mistaken!" I push my mug away and pick up my spear.
"I am capable you know." I say before getting up and heading out of the door.
I pull my spear in by the string and pull off the duck I have just killed. I am getting used to not having the range I would without the string, but it is hard. Standing a few meters away from a lake, there are a lot of birds I can kill for food and I already have three placed by my feet.
"Here. Use this instead." I turn to see my Mother holding out a rope made of vines. It is a lot longer than the string. I tie it to the end of my spear and around my hand. This time when I throw it, I find it much easy to get a good throw. A goose flies over our heads and, quick as lightening, Katniss has sent an arrow flying straight into its eye.
"Good shot." I say as the goose falls down in front of us and she catches it before placing it by my feet, next to the ducks.
"If it really means that much to you, you can come with us tomorrow." She says, shooting another goose that becomes curious of us.
"Really?" I ask, unsure if she will actually let me go or not.
"Really. I forget that you're not the seven year old girl that hugged me as we cried together over Peeta, Haymitch and your Grandmother's deaths anymore. Or the ten year old girl that couldn't throw a spear to save her life when she started training. You're a sixteen year old girl now, out for revenge just like I was at your age. You are highly dangerous with that spear, you can shoot and throw knives almost better than that girl Straw could. Almost." She smiles weakly. "You're old enough and big enough to handle yourself if something goes wrong. So yes, you can come."
"Thank you." I whisper and hug her tightly. If I could freeze the moment I would have. My Mother rarely hugged me when I was a kid, and now I have to cherish all of them.
Next chapter will be longer, me thinks. But you never know…So review?