I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me. So don't count me out.

It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either.

El Distrito 12, donde puedes morirte de hambre sin poner en peligro tu seguridad.

Rue,, la niña que, cuando le preguntas por lo que mas ama en el mundo, contesta que la musica, nada mas y nada menos.

-Volaste la comida en pedazos?-susurra.
-Hasta el ultimo trocito.
-Vas a ganar.
-Lo hare. Ahora voy a ganar por las dos

I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands in front of me. A gift form a sponsor. But why now? I’ve been in fairly good shape with supplies. Maybe Haymitch’s noticed my despondency and is trying to cheer me up a bit. Or could it be something to help my ear?

I open the parachute and find a small loaf of bread. It’s not the fine white of the Capitol stuff. It’s made of dark ration grain and shaped in a crescent. Sprinkled with seeds. I flashback to Peeta’s lesson on the various district breads in the Training Center. This bread came from District 11. I cautiously lift the still warm loaf. What must it have cost the people of District 11 who can’t even feed themselves? How many would’ve had to do without to scrape up a coin to put in the collection for this one loaf? It had been meant for Rue, surely. But instead of pulling the gift when she died, they’d authorized Haymitch to give it to me. As a thank-you? Or because, like me, they don’t like to let debts go unpaid? For whatever reason, this is a first. A district gift to a tribute who’s not your own.

I lift my face and step into the last falling rays of sunlight. “My thanks to the people of District Eleven,” I say. I want them to know I know where it came from. That the full value of the gift has been recognized.