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On the way, she is of course tortured by the image of poor Peeta, all crazy and tied to his bed, but sees someone come and sit next to her: Gale. Her official boyfriend. He makes his own tortured handsome face, while explaining that he knows she loves Peeta, and that well, he has to stop being jealous, that one day, she will make her choice, that she will live happily, that her happiness will make those who love her happy, that there is therefore no problemeven if Gale has a bit of a log in his pants from waiting.

If we don't really care, what's more interesting is when Gale goes to meet Electro (engineer and former Hunger Games candidate, now in a wheelchair) in a corner of the hovercraft to discuss battle plans. One of these consists of dropping bombs on an area, then waiting for the doctors & co. to arrive to detonate a second bomb at that moment and maximize civilian casualties. "  A nice pupute technique ". Katniss, you who revolt every two minutes, any opinion?

Nope. Instead, Katniss just frowns a little and mutters that it's not cool (wow, big rebellion, kids), then goes to get her bow ready, because we're about to land in District 2.

And indeed: the craft lands in a square in the middle of the devastated city, and buy phone number list Katniss is greeted at the bottom of the plane by the rebels in the middle of a fight in the district, who take her to their HQ where their leader, whom we'll call Brienne in homage to all those Game of Thrones actors who are trying to break into the cinema at the moment, is waiting for them. Brienne promptly explains the situation.

“Hey, kids. Well, you see, it’s a bit of a mess here. The enemy has a great underground base we call “The Nut,” probably some kind of homage to Chip and Dale, and just yesterday, we attempted an assault on it and got crushed. Now, as long as that stronghold remains, there’s no way we can get to the Capitol. Our losses are heavy, and there are still plenty of weapons inside. If anyone has any ideas… Katniss?
” “No, ideas aren’t really my thing.
” “Micheline, the leader of the storm troopers?
” “Neither. We had a blast yesterday, I’m a little tired.
” “President, who’s joining the Skype meeting?
” “No, but I sent Katniss, our Mockingjay, over to you. And I’m sure it’s safe to discuss our plans on Skype.
” “Well…
” “I have an idea!
” “Gale?” 
– What if, instead of storming the base… we laid siege to it? It's in the mountains, right? So what if we blocked the exits with avalanches?
– All but one so the civilians inside could get out… hmmm, that's clever! I say yes!

And so the plan is finalized: the hovercrafts will bomb the mountain at strategic points to trigger avalanches and presto (it's stupid that they didn't think of it before; luckily a teenager was passing by). That same evening, the affair begins, and from the ruined city at the foot of the mountain, Katniss hardly dares to watch the bombings because my god, this technique of attacking the fortress without killing anyone while leaving a way out for those who want to surrender, it's so monstrous!