I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.
How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?
Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.
Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I've never had a whole leg to myself before.” The disbelief of the chronically hungry.