Katniss: Why Does It Have To Be Different?

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But why Katniss thought as she looked at Gale? Why does it have to be different? She did not want it to be different between them. But them just as Katniss is about to ask Gale. Why are you looking at me differently? She hears an old woman in the crowd say “long live district thirteen!” That’s strange Katniss thinks District 13 had been gone for 74 years. Peeta turns to Katniss and says “Katniss gather up your family we have to get out of here.” At first she looked at Peeta with a look of disbelief, but then saw the fear in his eyes. The peacekeepers were moving in to take the old woman away. She calls out to her mother and Prim and says “We have to get out of here!” Then in her head she silently debates should I trust the Capital? She had

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