The first reflex that shoots through Kitty's brain is distrust, questioning anything nice that is said to her. She's experienced kindness in her life, more perhaps than most children in the worse parts of the sprawl, but she's also lived where she grew up for long enough to get plenty of reason to identify overly trusting behaviour with betrayal and death, or worse.
On the other hand, the woman could be honest. And if she is, her help would be welcome. Getting away from here and to a safer place would be good.
While her instincts are battling each other, she continues to pretend to be unconscious which will give Stella a limp body that can be moved and checked without resistance.
There are minor injuries on her fingers, little scratches and cuts. On the fingers of her left hand, that is, because the right one is gone along with a part of her right forearm. It has been bandaged and isn't acutely bleeding anymore, but there is blood on it.
There is blood all over her clothes, though only a bit every here and there, as if bloody hands touched everywhere to pull at them.
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The first reflex that shoots through Kitty's brain is distrust, questioning anything nice that is said to her. She's experienced kindness in her life, more perhaps than most children in the worse parts of the sprawl, but she's also lived where she grew up for long enough to get plenty of reason to identify overly trusting behaviour with betrayal and death, or worse.
On the other hand, the woman could be honest. And if she is, her help would be welcome. Getting away from here and to a safer place would be good.
While her instincts are battling each other, she continues to pretend to be unconscious which will give Stella a limp body that can be moved and checked without resistance.
There are minor injuries on her fingers, little scratches and cuts. On the fingers of her left hand, that is, because the right one is gone along with a part of her right forearm. It has been bandaged and isn't acutely bleeding anymore, but there is blood on it.
There is blood all over her clothes, though only a bit every here and there, as if bloody hands touched everywhere to pull at them.