All right, guys, this one is mean to go off Suzanne Collin's epilogue for Mockingjay, but in 3rd person. You don't have to see them as connected, but you can if you want ;)
Lastly, for the song in this passage : Rue's Lullaby. Anyone who hasn't needs to go to Youtube and listen to it. Just type in Rue's Lullaby and listen to it. It's beautiful and it makes me cry :'(
Katniss Everdeen watches her precious children running around the meadow, laughing and playing, dancing, as the toddler tries to keep up with his sister. She glances sideways at Peeta, who is smiling at them gently. He catches her eye and smiles more, taking her hand. She sighes happily. Peeta and her were simply meant to be – their immediate connection, like they had already known each other in a past life, was what had first attracted her to him.
Their children remind her of him – not of herself, though.
She is happy now, and she just wants a peaceful life with them.
Tears sting her eyes as they begin to sing:
Deep in the meadow, under the willow
A bed of grass, a soft green pillow
Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes
And when the open, the sun will rise.
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here you dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.
The children will never know starvation or fear, as long as Katniss and Peeta have something to say about it. Fate whispers that they will have a long and happy time together.
But then something happens that fate had not planned.
Katniss sees her daughter trip over something, and hop up again, looking at something on the ground. "Mommy!" she calls.
Katniss and Peeta stand, and walk over to where their children are peering at something in the ground. It looks a bit like . . . the corner of a chest.
"What is it?"