"She was just as surprised as we were," he replies, seemingly unconcerned with the swinging bag in his fist and the bubble around Finnick alike. Having experience with it, he has written it off as not needing too much thinking about.

For a moment, it looks as though he's debating putting the bagged snake down on the ground, but in the end decides against it. Who knows whether or not it'd manage to wriggle out of the bag, and then they'd be forced to go find another one, and that might take hours of searching.

"It also vanished without conscious direction; one moment I could not touch her, the next, I could."