He shows her his watch, and when he rubs the face, a mockingjay like the one on the pin she wears appears and quickly vanishes. Later, at a feast at President Snow’s mansion, Katniss meets Plutarch Heavensbee, the new Head Gamemaker. They do it, but President Snow indicates to Katniss that it’s not enough.

At the end of the tour, Peeta and Katniss plan for Peeta to propose during a televised interview to try to appease the Capitol. In other districts, Katniss can sense an undercurrent of repressed rage that suggests people are ready to rebel. Before she is rushed away, Katniss sees a group of Peacekeepers execute the old man. An old man in the crowd whistles out a signal that Katniss and Rue used, and everyone in the crowd puts up a gesture of respect used in Katniss’s home district, District 12. It was the home district of Rue, the girl Katniss befriended who was ultimately killed during the Games. They agree to be friends, however, as they embark on their Victory Tour of the districts. Peeta and Katniss, meanwhile, have had a tense relationship since Peeta found out that Katniss was only pretending to be in love with him during the Games. Katniss tells Haymitch everything that happened, and she realizes that she’ll never be able to stop pretending: She’ll have to marry Peeta. She has to continue pretending that she’s in love with Peeta, or they’ll hurt Gale, Katniss’s oldest friend.

He’s concerned that any more public defiance of the Capitol by Katniss, like her and Peeta’s threat of suicide at the end of the Hunger Games, could spark an uprising in the districts. Katniss returns home from the woods one day to find President Snow waiting for her. The Hunger Games have passed, and Katniss’s and Peeta’s lives have changed substantially as they are now rich.

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