Katniss is on a metal circle in the arena. She wonders if she should stay at the Cornucopia (the central area in the arena) to fight for supplies or head for water, as Haymitch adviced her to do. Katniss sees a bow and arrow. She then sees Peeta and he shakes his head no to tell her not to go toward the Cornucopia. Once the gong sounds Katniss grabs a nearby sheet of plastic and loaf of bread, and an orange backpack. She sees another tribute get a knife in the back and then runs for it. Katniss heads for the forested area. By late afternoon, Katniss hears the cannons, which are shot every time a tribute is killed. The fighting at the Cornucopia must have stopped. The cannon fires eleven times; that means eleven are dead. Thirteen candidates are left. Katniss thinks of Peeta and wonders if he is dead. Exhausted, Katniss breaks to examine her backpack inside she finds a sleeping bag, crackers, beef strips, iodine, matches, wire, sunglasses, and a dissappointing empty water bottle.Water then becomes Katniss's top priority. She saw a lake back at the Cornucopia, but headed in the opposite direction. Katniss chews pine to quell her hunger and then looks for a place to camp. She sets two snares and then climbs up into a willow tree where she settles in with her sleeping bag and loops herself in with a belt. When night falls they project a death recap. The faces of the dead are projected into the sky. Katniss was relieved that Peeta was not shown. He is still alive. In the morning, Katniss hears a snap and realizes that someone only a few hundred yards to her right is building a fire. She knows it was a stupid move as the career tributes will find them. Katniss watches concealed in the tree as a pack of tributes come along and kill the girl who lit the fire. The stronger tributes have formed an aliance and are now fighting the games together. She eavesdrops on their conversation when all of a sudden she realizes that one of the voices belongs to Peeta. Katniss catches a glimpse of him and he's bloody and bruised and bandaged. Peeta leaves the group to make sure the girl they just killed is actually dead. That's when Katniss overhears the others say that they're basically using Peeta to find her. They also can't seem to figure out how she got that eleven in training. Katniss wonders why Peeta hasn't told them about her skills. Peeta returns, the cannon fires, and the Career Tributes take off. Katniss makes herself move too. Knowing she'll get a close-up from the camera when she hits the ground, she hops to the ground and puts a knowing smile on her face. She has to look like she's one step ahead of the game. Before she goes, she checks her snares and finds a rabbit. She roasts it on the dying embers of the dead tribute's fire hoping to gain sponsor's with her thinking. Katniss has had no water the last couple days and is becoming dehydrated. She's hoping to find water in the valley where she is heading. Katniss sees some berries, but just as she's about to suck the juice out she notices they're not blueberries. She puts them back. The plant instructor at the Training Center advised candidates not to eat berries unless they were completely sure they weren't poisonous. Night falls and Katniss finds a tree to sleep in. The dead girls picture is projected across the sky. The next day Katniss still has not found water. She wonders why Haymitch has not sent her some (they use silver parachutes from sponsors to get supplies to their tributes). She is hoping she is close and that is why she has received no aid. Katniss then finds mudd, and mudd means water. Crawling through the mud, Katniss finds a pond filled with water lilies. She exercises massive restraint as she takes out her flask, fills it, drops in the iodine to purify it, and then waits half an hour. Fully refreshed, Katniss hears the anthem, but sees no faces projected into the sky. She uses her sleeping bag for the night. A few hours later Katniss has a rude awakening by a wall of fire coming her way.
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