In the bedroom Kat slept curled up on the bed, her back to the wall, the once clean white sheets were now smeared with blood and grime. As the piece of paper slid under the door an ear flicked up from her unconscious figure and one unnaturally bright blue eye fixed on the doorway as John's footsteps receded away down the hall. With clenched teeth she slid off the bed, lurching across the room to grab the paper as pain flared dully in her arm the morphine muffled everything to a soft buzz. For several seconds she stared at the paper, then slowly opened the door, eyes flicking down the hallway, ears up and twitching.
The kitchen was alien, strange and nothing like the military-style feeding at the NC base. Wincing with every pain-flaring step Kat made her way around the room, opening cupboards and drawers. Everything was stocked with canned food, non-perishables, bottled water. She tore into a packet of dried meat, tearing at it with her teeth until the plastic gave way and she wolfed down the food within. Quickly she tore open another, gulping it down like an animal worried its prey would be stolen. Despite this she picked the food carefully, high in protein to help replace blood lost, large water intake, salt and sugars. Between every bite her eyes flicked again to the kitchen door, one hand resting on the second blade she still had hidden in the thigh of her flightsuit.