"A year and change?" Katniss has sort of lost track of it. She knows she's had two birthdays since she's been here and now she's nineteen - an age she never thought she'd reach back home. It's a little weird to think that if she'd been at home, she'd be ineligible for the reaping. She would have survived, provided the rules hadn't changed again.

"Long enough to know that if they wanted to find me, they would have tried already. I don't think they'd let me live here this long without trying something."