It's turning to day by the time I return to our floor, having spent the rest of the night talking with Quinn, she's apologetic for her tributes, and I know she's rooting for Katniss too.
I walk into the dining first, finding it empty. I make myself a coffee in the largest cup I can find then traipse into to the television room to find Sue sitting in front of the TV.
"She's still in the tree." She informs me without looking away from the screen. "The only problem is she's still sitting a few feet away from a tracker jacker nest." She gives me a pointed look, but I remember how deadly those mutant wasps are.
It's dawn now, and Katniss is sitting in her tree watching the careers below her, sleeping. She looks at her leg first and seems relived that the salve has worked it's magic and applies some more. She eats a little before quietly gathering most of her things and putting them into her backpack.
She starts to climb the tree before stopping in thought, then whispers to Rue. When Rue appears, she points at the nest, to which Katniss nods and makes a sawing motion with her knife. Rue then melts back into the trees.
She then continues to climb and positions her knife before noticing a tracker walking across the surface of the hive. She stops for a second before taking a deep breath and starts sawing through the tree again.
She's stung once before she's managed to get the nest free, pushing it down through the trees. It crashes to the ground and splits open before two more sting her.
"I wonder if she learnt that trick from her mentor?" One of the commentators exclaims, remembering when I used a nest as a weapon in my own games.
On the ground, Peeta springs up, along with a few other of the careers and they run out to the lake, obviously thinking that the water will deter the insects.
Glimmer, and the girl from district 4, who's name I don't remember, aren't so lucky, being stung so many times they haven't even had a chance to move before they're riddled with stings. The girl from district 4 stumbles out of sight also immediately, but Glimmer stays in the same place, trying to fend of the wasps and shrieking for help. No one comes.
She falls to the floor a minute later, twitching for another few minutes before coming to a stop. I know she hasn't died yet though, she's trapped in her own body, in terrible pain.
Once the wasps have dissipated, Katniss clambers down from the tree and stumbles through the forest, finding a small pool of water and plunging herself in it.
Katniss drags herself out of the pool a few minutes later and surveys her injuries. She sits for a while, obviously trying to think with the poison clouding her system before she staggers up and moves in the direction of the tree she's just knocked the tracker jackers out of.
She reaches the tree just as the cannon fires. The camera zooms in to get a close up of Glimmer, once beautiful, now horribly disfigured by the stings of the wasps, before Katniss begins trying to pry the bow from Glimmers had. She ends up smashing it with a rock to get the bow. Then she tries to move the body to get the sheath of arrows from under her, but falls back, horrified. Probably hallucinating.
Another cannon fire can be heard them, the girl from district 4 falling to her injuries. The hovercraft arrives then, and Katniss throws herself over the body of Glimmer, as if trying to protect it from the claw, but the craft scoops up the broken body of the other girl instead.
Stealing herself, Katniss tries once again to free the arrows from under the girl. This time she succeeds, just as the crashing of footsteps can be heard through the brush.
She pulls out an arrow and tries to position it on the bow but she can't, and slumps back just as Peeta runs into view.
"What are you still doing here?!" He yells at her, as myself and Sue lean even further forward from the couch, half excepting Peeta to drive the spear he's holding through Katniss.
"Get up!" he prods at her with the dull end of the spear, trying to get her to move. "Run!"
Katniss finally manages to get up and run as Cato comes crashing into view. She stumbles into trees, tripping over the dense undergrowth but manages to pull herself away from the clearing and away from Cato.