[ In a way, Katniss is lucky - unlike Peeta's experience with forcefields in the Quarter Quell, the wood of the boat takes the brunt of the hit, and only her shoulder makes contact. It's still enough to send her flying backwards into the water, propelled by the shrapnel of the boat showering her face. she takes a particularly large chunk in the solar plexus, and for a moment she feels her heart stop, remembers that in this place there's nowhere for Finnick to make it start again.
She can't find up from down, and takes her a long time to surface. When her head finally breaks above the waves she's coughing and spitting, trying her hardest to expel whatever water has entered her lungs. Once she can breathe again she treads water, takes long, calm strokes and tries to get her bearings, ignores the way the salt water makes her eyes burn. She's fairly separate from the rest of the group, but she can see them, sees Johanna. ]
Finnick! Someone get her, she's going to sink.
[ She grabs a sturdy-looking piece of wood for flotation - Peeta's got the right idea - and starts taking large strokes over toward the rest of the group. There's a weird ringing in her ears, and her temple stings - she's pretty sure she's bleeding. She supposes she's getting off light, for having hit the --
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She can't find up from down, and takes her a long time to surface. When her head finally breaks above the waves she's coughing and spitting, trying her hardest to expel whatever water has entered her lungs. Once she can breathe again she treads water, takes long, calm strokes and tries to get her bearings, ignores the way the salt water makes her eyes burn. She's fairly separate from the rest of the group, but she can see them, sees Johanna. ]
Finnick! Someone get her, she's going to sink.
[ She grabs a sturdy-looking piece of wood for flotation - Peeta's got the right idea - and starts taking large strokes over toward the rest of the group. There's a weird ringing in her ears, and her temple stings - she's pretty sure she's bleeding. She supposes she's getting off light, for having hit the --
She stops so utterly that she almost sinks. ]
The forcefield! Where is it!!