She wishes she'd known that to begin with. That changes everything. She comes to a slow stop and starts to weigh everything in her head, wondering if this is the last straw and she's completely snapped and gone mad. How dreadfully cliche. She'd always moved past her games with a sleek fury that helped propel her through every year as a mentor, but furious people don't start to hallucinate when they ought to be in the arena. "Did the plan change? Maybe we were unnecessary," she says, but she's hesitant to say that both for her pride and her honest belief that without her, Finnick, and the other victors, there would be no plan.

"If we weren't needed, then where's Katniss?"