That tactic was ghastly enough on its own, but as Katniss finally managed to make way to Snow's mansion gates, the weapon became especially gruesome to witness in action. Not even Snow's own backyard was exempt from using extraordinarily grisly devices to take down his enemies.īack at District 13, he'd aligned with Beetee and others to design bombing devices that would ensure maximum impact-one explosion, followed by another that might eliminate any of the unharmed who'd into assess the damage from the first. Because his sinister death traps were no longer contained to the Arenas, they couldn't be considered just entertaining avenues of punishing the districts for their historical uprising anymore they meant that Snow and his ilk were insatiably bloodthirsty and didn't mind how close to home their nefarious tactics hit. This development was buckling to behold because it meant that there was no escape from Snow's lecherous love of violence. Snow's grisly muttations also found them there and took out the newlywed father-to-be Finnick Odair. This meant going underground in an effort to avoid the litany of surveillance cameras and traps planted throughout the city, but they did not find safety and comfort below ground either. But once Commander Boggs was killed in action, she was left in charge of the squad and decided to proceed to President Snow's mansion with or without their help. Coin sent Katniss and her so-called Star Squad-including a brainwashed Peeta who wanted nothing more than to kill his former partner-slash-love interest-to a supposedly safe portion of the city to film more pump videos for the other rebels.

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