Kara awoke suddenly, breathing heavily. For a split second she was staring at a dimly lit ceiling, multiple lamps overhead, only one was on, and the next second, she was standing in a long hallway, the lights here were blinking. She looked around and at herself; the hallway was painted white and had linoleum flooring. There was a man about 10 meters away from her.
“Hey! Excuse me sir!?” she said to the man, her voice was a bit raspy to begin with, but became much smoother near the end of her statement.
The man slowly turned around, he was wearing tattered clothes with dirt and blood on them, when his face became visible, it was distorted, the eyes were pure white and his mouth was gaping open.
“Umm… sir?” Kara said, backing away a bit, “Are you okay?”
The man burst into an all out sprint and lunged at Kara, the second he bit into her shoulder, Kara was back on the ground starring up at the dimly lit ceiling.
She screamed and quickly checked her shoulder; it was perfectly fine, so marks, no blood, nothing.
“What in god’s name was that…?” she asked herself slowly getting up. She wiped a few tears from her cheeks and began scanning the room, the one lamp overhead was lighting the room just enough that she could make out all the details. She saw a crossbow and a machete on the ground a couple meters from her and a note next to them.
She crawled over to them, and then read the note, it said, To my favorite, Dr. Simon Belshire.
She looked behind her and there was a dead body, it was missing its head. Kara screamed for a good 20 seconds before she calmed herself down. She got up and walked over to the body, then crouched down and began to examine it, trying to ignore the fact that it’s head was missing. The body had a white coat on, as well as an ID card that read Assistant Director of Genetics Division Dr. Simon Belshire. The body belonged to the man who left the weapons. He had nothing else of interest on him, she stood up again.
She then noticed that the button on her pants was undone, and one of the straps of her tank top was down, she fixed these then found a mirror on the wall. She gazed into it at herself, panicking initially, ready to scream, but she calmed herself down before that. Her face had many streaks of blood on it; she wiped it off with her hands immediately. Then as she looked in the mirror she noticed something in the corner, unable to see what it was from the mirror she turned around and walked closer to it.
Once she was about a meter away from it, she collapsed and screamed again, it was the disembodied head of the doctor, not only did it include his head, but also his spine was connected to it, there was a good deal of blood around it. She stopped screaming, but continued crying while starring at the head. She crawled away from it, and wiped the tears from her face.
She tried getting her bearings, who was she? Where was she? Why did that man attack her? Why was she in a small dim room with a dead body? She had no answers. One thing she did know, was her name Kara, she didn’t know how, or why, but she knew her name. She had no memories of any childhood, or anything, but she knew her name, and she knew that she had to get out, because staying in the room wasn’t getting her anywhere. She took the doctor’s belt and put it on, she then slipped the machete there and held the crossbow, it had one arrow loaded, and three more attached to it.
She went to the only door and opened it slowly, she stepped out, and into an electronics store, further away from the door, was a large glass wall, with an archway leading out into a long hallway with even more stores in it.
“A mall?” she heard herself blurt out.