“When the gong sounds, get the hell out of there. You’re
neither of you up to the blood bath at the Cornucopia. Just
clear out, put as much distance as you can between yourselves and the others, and find a source of water,” he says. “Got it?”
“And after that?” I ask. “Stay alive,” says Haymitch. It’s the same advice he gave us on the train, but he’s not drunk and laughing this time. And we only nod. What else is there to say? (Chapter 10, p.138, 139)
This time he is giving Katniss not a statement that she will be cheered up as, but a realistic advice for the Arena