She draws her legs up to her chest, resting her cheek against her left knee and breathing hard. "Because you asked me to," Katniss still remembers the moment vividly; Gale being dragged off and the fact that she couldn't make out what he was screaming at her. Two words: shoot me. But she hadn't realized in time, and it had felt like a betrayal and made her sick to her stomach. She needs her bracelet, needs to feel the metal cutting into the skin of her wrist to bring her back to reality. Sometimes it's harder; sometimes Katniss wonders if she doesn't have more in common to Annie Cresta than she originally thought.

"Because I needed you to."