Her mind hadn't yet wrapped around the endgame of that thought process. So bent on survival, the idea of working against it was a hard one for Katniss to process in anything but a theoretical sense.

But eventually your knot frayed, and you couldn't tie it anymore. And then what?

"I'm so tired of all of this. I just wanted-" She laughed, suddenly, a small, tight laugh. "I just wanted to protect people."