A Brutal Rejection and Escape

Kira slowly dragged her eyelids open. The first thing that registered was the all-too-familiar, dingy, water-stained ceiling of the pack hospital. A jagged brown ring of water damage stared back at her, a shape she had memorized over countless visits. The sharp, sterile stench of bleach burned her nostrils, failing miserably to cover up the metallic tang of old blood and despair that clung to the