“Headaches can be just as painful,” Katniss says. She might not be as empathetic as some but she does worry about Haymitch and she doesn’t want him suffering. For one, she needs his help. He knows more about arenas than anyone else here and she needs his experiences to be able to survive this one.

“My mother used to use willow bark for them - when she couldn’t get morphling, anyway.” She rarely had access to it other than from Mayor Undersee’s wife.