It's strange to hear their plan laid out without real understanding. Vaguely, he thinks that there's no point in pretending that he wasn't a part of the rebellion anymore; it's all exposed now. If this really was a test to weed out which of the victors were in on the scheme, well, it's abundantly clear that Johanna Mason and Finnick Odair were on it.
The cynical part of his brain thinks that this would be the perfect way to do it -- to send something that looks and talks like Katniss Everdeen to trick him, because he's been told to save her at all costs. Or to pair her with something that looks looks and talks like Johanna Mason, because the person he had trusted most in the arena, after Mags, was certainly Jo -- weak as it might make him to admit it.
He falters, wars with himself for a minute, and then just gives in. He can theorize, after all, just what Johanna was doing just based off the mark Katniss has.
"Johanna wasn't trying to kill you," Finnick says. "We were working together to get you out of the arena, Katniss. That's what the alliance was for. She was probably trying to remove your tracker."
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The cynical part of his brain thinks that this would be the perfect way to do it -- to send something that looks and talks like Katniss Everdeen to trick him, because he's been told to save her at all costs. Or to pair her with something that looks looks and talks like Johanna Mason, because the person he had trusted most in the arena, after Mags, was certainly Jo -- weak as it might make him to admit it.
He falters, wars with himself for a minute, and then just gives in. He can theorize, after all, just what Johanna was doing just based off the mark Katniss has.
"Johanna wasn't trying to kill you," Finnick says. "We were working together to get you out of the arena, Katniss. That's what the alliance was for. She was probably trying to remove your tracker."