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Dr. Kay is an assistant scientist in Dr. Gaul’s lab. She’s older and wears bright pink reading glasses. Coriolanus runs into her in the lab during the Hunger Games, but he doesn’t meet her until a month later, in District 12. Dr. Kay reveals that years ago, she ran the Capitol’s jabberjay program. She clearly loves her birds and wants what’s best for them, even if the jabberjays were a failure as surveillance devices.
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Dr. Kay Character Timeline in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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Chapter 25
...the scientists except for the woman with the pink glasses, whom another scientist introduces as Dr. Kay . In a friendly manner, she lays out their plan to divide into groups to...
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Chapter 26
...the recruits at the hanging tree, Coriolanus finds himself in a group with Bug and Dr. Kay . Dr. Kay knows exactly who Coriolanus is and asks how he’s liking the districts....
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...jabberjay down from a tree and runs back up another tree with an empty trap, Dr. Kay shows Coriolanus how the birds work. Pulling out a small device with buttons, she says...
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Dr. Kay explains that they can’t use the birds’ homing device to call them back because the...
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...says they should kill all the mockingjays. To try to cover up this misstep ( Dr. Kay is shocked), Coriolanus suggests they’ll push out native species. But Dr. Kay says if they...
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Chapter 27
...are busy, so Sejanus is constantly supervised. When Coriolanus joins the group catching mockingjays again, Dr. Kay says it’s time to pull out the mist nets. They erect the nearly invisible nets...
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By Wednesday, Dr. Kay has enough birds to be happy. Coriolanus and Bug prepare the birds for their trip...
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