Chapter 17: When Katniss is able to crawl away from the explosion, she sees that it’s successfully blown the Careers’ food stash to bits. She tries to escape before they return, but she finds that she’s too dizzy to do anything but crawl. Katniss is unable to hear, and her left ear is bleeding. She drags herself into some bushes just as the Careers arrive and see the wreckage. Cato is furious and takes it out on the boy from District 3, killing him in a headlock. The Careers are furious because they know that they’ll have trouble surviving without their food stash. Their more privileged backgrounds meant that they never had to learn how to gather their own meals or how to go hungry when enough food wasn’t available. The Careers retreat to the lake to wait for the anthem that will announce the dead tributes.
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They light a torch and head into the woods to hunt for the bomber. Katniss, meanwhile, puts on her night vision glasses and snacks on some of the greens and nuts that she and Rue gathered. She wonders how Rue is doing, whether she’s worried but at least they each know that the other is alive because neither of their faces appeared after the anthem. Katniss also worries about Peeta, she overheard Cato mention that he’d stabbed Peeta earlier. Finally, Katniss settles into the bushes for a cold night. In the morning, Katniss awakens to hear laughter and realizes that she has hearing back in her right ear. The laugh belongs to Foxface, who’s standing among the wreckage. She seems too clever for Katniss to ask her to be an ally. Foxface suddenly stops laughing and runs away from the site frightened. Katniss decides to trust Foxface’s instincts and leaves the area when she does. Katniss follows the stream back to the site where she said she would meet Rue. Her left ear is still deaf, and she worries that it won’t
They light a torch and head into the woods to hunt for the bomber. Katniss, meanwhile, puts on her night vision glasses and snacks on some of the greens and nuts that she and Rue gathered. She wonders how Rue is doing, whether she’s worried but at least they each know that the other is alive because neither of their faces appeared after the anthem. Katniss also worries about Peeta, she overheard Cato mention that he’d stabbed Peeta earlier. Finally, Katniss settles into the bushes for a cold night. In the morning, Katniss awakens to hear laughter and realizes that she has hearing back in her right ear. The laugh belongs to Foxface, who’s standing among the wreckage. She seems too clever for Katniss to ask her to be an ally. Foxface suddenly stops laughing and runs away from the site frightened. Katniss decides to trust Foxface’s instincts and leaves the area when she does. Katniss follows the stream back to the site where she said she would meet Rue. Her left ear is still deaf, and she worries that it won’t