Katniss climbs higher and higher, knowing that she's much lighter than any of the Careers and that they won't be able to reach her. The five Careers and Peeta trap her in the tree, and Katniss sees that Glimmer, the girl tribute from District 1, has the bow and arrows she saw at the Cornucopia. She falls asleep and wakes to the sound of the approaching Careers, then runs to a tree and climbs to get out of their reach. Pity does not get the tributes any support, so she examines her injury, packs her bag, drinks a bit of water, and eats some water plants' roots. Katniss understands that in order to maintain her sponsors, she must appear brave in the face of her injury. Prim is a born healer, as Katniss' mother says. She thinks of home, about Prim who, while she's afraid of most everything else, can treat the most sever of injuries.
The relief is too great in the cool water and the pain is too intense when she removes her calf. She soaks her burns in a spring-fed pool of water, but finds it hard to venture away from it. She puts the fire out with her hands, leaving them mildly burned and her right calf much more severely injured. She outruns the fire but ends up in a section of the arena in which the Gamemakers shoot fireballs at her, and one catches her calf as she runs. She can tell that these flames are manmade, that the Gamemakers are creating them in order to drive the tributes together so that the Games don't get too boring.
She tries to keep up with the animals ahead of her, but has to take time to rest and vomit from the smoke, allowing herself a minute to recover. Katniss scrambles to get out of her tree and outrun the flames and smoke.
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