Atlas Gym [Monday evening]

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Katniss was doing everything in her power to forget that she only had until Friday to prepare. Of course, she'd still train with Peeta and Haymitch when she reached Twelve, but the reaping was only a few days after that. And Fandom's resources were about to become a lost cause to her. She kept thinking of loose ends to tie up -- people she wanted to say goodbye to, strategies she needed to consider. It was more the latter that she found herself dwelling on, as the former was too painful.

And so Monday night, she went to the gym to wait for Jaina. While Katniss was stronger and faster than she'd been before the Quell had been announced, her actual one-on-one training opposite other people had been limited. She knew she couldn't rely too heavily on being able to hide this time, since not only would she be with Peeta the whole time (and she knew how good he was at hiding, sure, but it was likely that all the other victors had perfectly functional hearing), but they all would have seen her strategy the first time around. Hopefully this would help with that complacency, and give her an idea of how she might fare.

Even if she didn't think she'd probably get much opportunity to do so in the arena, when she arrived at the gym, Katniss started stretching out. It would hardly do to pull something now and have to nurse it for the weeks leading up to the Games.

[she's here for Jaina but open gym is open!]