

Katniss doubts District 13 has been allowed to exist, but she is still intrigued by the possibility. However, Bonnie and Twill don't believe that because every time the Capitol shows footage of District 13 on the news, the same mockingjay wing flutters in and out of the shot. The Capitol has told Panem that District 13 was completely obliterated during the last rebellion. They tell Katniss they are on their way to District 13, which they claim still exists. When things were starting to return to normal, the factory where Bonnie and Twill worked exploded, and they ran away.

However, the Capitol sent in additional Peacekeepers, and the uprising was eventually stopped.
#Catching fire commander cracker#
There, she encounters Bonnie and Twill, who are from District 8 and have a cracker that has a mockingjay carved on it.ĭistrict 8 officially began an uprising the night Peeta and Katniss got engaged. Unable to stand it any longer, she risks death and goes into the woods. A few weeks after Gale's whipping, a crate of wedding dresses for Katniss arrives from the Capitol. The state of things in District 12 deteriorates rapidly. She knows that she has been a coward, and in a rush of emotions, she kisses Gale as he sleeps. She immediately hates him but realizes the kind of pain he's felt.

Katniss tries to imagine herself in Gale's position, that he had been sent to the Games and had come home with some girl he had supposedly fallen in love with. Gale is taken back to the Everdeens so Katniss' mother can heal him. On the way home from the woods, Katniss sees that Gale is being whipped by the new Head Peacekeeper, Romulus Thread, for killing a wild turkey. The two disagree on what to do, and he storms away before they can resolve anything. When Gale discovers that some districts are rebelling, he says he wants to stay and fight. He tells her he loves her, but Katniss fumbles with the right words to respond, which puts even more distance between her and Gale. She asks him if he'll run away with her, and he agrees. Katniss cannot keep this information to herself, so the first chance she gets, she arranges a meeting with Gale in the woods at an abandoned lake house. Katniss, while looking for Madge, who is the mayor's daughter and her friend, accidentally sees a broadcast from the Capitol that reports the uprising in District 8 has gotten more violent and dire. After Snow's party, Katniss and Peeta return home to District 12 to prepare for the Harvest Festival.
