That her nightmares are full of violence aren't anything new. Although having Derek there at night to hold her has helped curb the haunting dreams to a degree, all the recent upheaval in Alpha Complex has practically negated the calming effect of being held. It hasn't mattered how much she's reassured herself every day by spending time with Prim, or how tightly Derek holds her during the night. The nightmares come. Memories of some of her worse moments in life. The Computer would have done her a favor by completely removing her memories. The past few days, she almost wish that It had succeeded.

The nightmares that night are violent and while that isn't new, the degree of violence she witnesses is. Although at one point, the man tells another man not to kill, the way he beats up men in a staircase in another dream seems almost worse. At least Katniss' kills have always been clean - both animal and human. The nightmares don't get any better. Although it's not her, she sees everything from this man's point of view. The truck nearly hitting him as a child. The woman dying in his arms. The worse part about the nightmares is how real they feel. As real as any horrible memory of her own that haunts her at night.

When she finally wakes up, she feels as confused as she had been the day she woke up in the Complex. Her eyes closed, she whispers to herself: "My name is Katniss Everdeen. I'm eighteen years old and used to live in District 12..."

Eventually, she does manage to push aside the memory of the strange nightmares. They don't go away entirely and linger in the back of her mind as she tries to get through work. But actually trying to make an effort there has become important to her. Though she remains skeptical of Derek's plan to convince the Computer to give them actual food, she wants him to succeed. And not just because real food might actually encourage her to eat more (however wary she remains of HappiTime pills being slipped into her meals again). She wants him to succeed because she can almost imagine the proud smile that might momentarily slip on his face if he does.

Despite the strange dreams from the night before, the day continues on as normal. Katniss follows what has become a relatively normal routine: meals in the commissary, work, spending part of the evening at the range with her bow and quiver. She has to stop every now and then to remind herself who she is. And to remind herself that everything in the Alpha Complex is real. Seeing Prim helps.

Finding out that she's not alone with the strange dream experience helps even more.