Chapter 3: Cookies and Soup for Katniss! :D

So Kat is taken into custody in some fancy building to say goodbye. She tells her mother and Prim to take care of themselves. She forbids Prim from taking tessarae. It seems like if she loses, she won't be able to hold Prim to that promise. She promises that she'll win. Again with the easily breakable promises. Her family leaves.
Peeta's dad comes in. He gives her cookies and promises to make sure Prim eats. Then they sit in awkward silence, because Kat will be trying to kill his son.
Next, Madge he mayor's daughter comes in. She gives Kat a gold pin. Then Gale comes in, and they discuss if killing a person is like killing an animal.
Kat leaves the building, desperately trying not to cry. Peeta cries. They get on a really fast train.
On the train, Kat takes a shower for the first time in her life. I sincerely hope this just means that she usually takes baths, not that she never washes. She looks at her pin, and says it is a mockingjay. Whaaat?
Kat explains that mockingjays are a Capitol failure. They make muttations, or mutts, which are animals that they have genetically modified into weapons. This view of genetic modification makes me suspicious that the author may own an organic grocery. Anyways, the Capitol created jabberjays to listen to rebels and report back. But the rebels were too clever, so they got rid of the jabberjays, who mated with mockingbirds, creating mockingjays.
Hooray for ignoring chromosome numbers! Next there'll be an oceloctopus, an ocelot-octopus baby. Because it's so biologically sound.
Kat goes to dinner. Effie mentions that Kat and Peeta have much nicer table manners than last year's tributes. So Kat makes a point of wiping her fingers on the tablecloth. After eating lots of rich food, Kat feels sick. She mentions that in the past, she has eaten a soup made of mouse meat, pig entrails, and tree bark. Of course she has! Isn't that everyone's favourite?
They watch a video of other reapings. Kat and Peeta laugh at Haymitch's stage dive. Effie flips out. Then Haymitch comes in. Of course, he is drunk. He pukes on the floor, and Effie...I'm not sure what Effie does... It seems like she dances through the vomit puddle, but that seems unlikely given her stance on table manners.
Whatever. The chapter ends with a vomit puddle.