"Or I could just kill it myself," she mutters, pricklier than usual because Katniss has had quite enough of adrenalin in the past two years. Gwaine might like it - she suspects that he's the type to seek it out but she doesn't, and now he's dragged her into this too. Nevermind that she came into the forest on her own accord; she wants to blame him, so she will.

But for once she does what she's told, which is a miracle on any account. Katniss fires once more, into the gaping wound that was the creature's right eye, driving the arrow deeper into the bleeding flesh.