every time i read tbosas, i have a new take. this time i think it is all in snow’s head. lucy gray knew she needed to get out of there and didn’t stick around. the scarf fell as she was running away. the snake wasn’t planted there. he’s panicked and hallucinating. he’s guessing all of her motives and what she’s doing. he thinks she’s going back for a gun because that’s what he would do.
but lucy gray doesn’t trust guns. she just said so. can she even shoot one? her style in the games was always to run and hide. why would she go for the gun? he imagines he hears her and makes his way back to the shed. he hears her singing the hanging tree to accuse him. but maybe it’s his own guilt bleeding out. it’s in his head again on the hovercraft to the capitol.
this scene is the start of snow being haunted by lucy gray