KAI POV
It had been two days.
Or at least I thought it had. Someone had brought me six meals, all through the little sliding window in the heavy door. Morning. Evening. Morning. Evening. Morning. Evening.
Six.
So… two days, right?
I was just waiting. I didn’t know what for. Or who. But I was waiting. Something deep inside me said I needed to. That I couldn’t panic or scream or fight. Not yet.
That if I waited, someone would come.
Someone had to come.
There was a strange feeling crawling through the back of my mind. A buzzing. Not a noise, not really. More like a hum, a thread of tension that wouldn’t quite go away. Like I had left the stove on. Or I had forgotten something important. Or something was happening somewhere else, and I should have known what it was, but I didn’t.
Some
