Ilaya is crying in the corner and she struggles to stop her tears from flowing. She then slapped herself in the face to get herself in her senses, and to immediately regret it, as she felt her wounds on her face throbs painfully. The pain somewhat calmed her down as she thought of her next action
"Escape… I need to escape"
Ilaya gently wipes her eyes and looks around to see if there's any way for her to escape. She stand up to walk, then she tumbles down to the floor
"Aagghh!"
She felt extreme pain in her thigh as she gritted her teeth, she looked at her thigh and saw a handle of a knife sticking out of it. Then she attempted to get up again and froze. She looked again in her thigh and saw the knife that the killer stabbed into her. She rolled up her shirt as she bites it, it shows her side that was bruised terribly from the kick of the killer. Then, she grabbed the handle of the knife
"Kugghhh!"
She bit her clothes so tightly that her wounds in the face hurt terribly. She then removed the knife in one strong pull, as removing the knife slowly will just prolonged her suffering
"Kaagghhh!!"
Ilaya removed the knife in one pull as the wounds immediately gushed out with her blood. Tears flows from her face because of the pain, and she put the knife that was covered with her blood to the floor. She then covered her stab wound with her hand for now, as she's still dealing with the pain and waited for it to calm down
Ilaya felt the warm sticky blood coming out of her, as she fought with her dimming consciousness. After she managed to resist the pain, she grabbed the knife again as she tore her clothes and she bandaged her stab wound in her thigh clumsily
Ilaya then leaned again on the wall as she rested for a bit as she really used all of her will power to just remove and bandage her wounds. Time passes to minutes as she attempted to walk around again, she managed to stand up as she dragged her wounded leg, and looked around her for any hole she can escape to. But she didn't find any
The only thing that Ilaya managed to find is a disturbing revelation that her situation is so precarious, it made her anxiety and fear returned again. She saw many bloody hand prints in the walls, as though the other victims scratch the walls to escape, and the worst thing, she actually found a torn fingernail under the scratches. She became nauseous as she looked away. What she smelled is truly terrible, she feels that she's going to remember this experience as long as she lives, of course, if she managed to survive. She then panicked as she doubled her effort to search for anything that will help her to escape this place
After she circled the room, she didn't find anything that could be used to escape. All she sees is her outcome if she couldn't escape this place. The place is like a scene taken out of a nightmare. Ilaya felt the cruelty and evilness of a person for the first time. She struggled to breathe at the thought that the killer is own his way. And the fear of the pain of what she's about to go through as she being killed
She teared up again as she held her knife tighter as she thought
'I-I don't want to die'
Then she looked at her knife
'But… I don't want to kill'
She crouched down and hugged her knees while she's crying. Then, she thought about her power. She forgets her power because of what she's been through, but her power might be the one to save her in this predicament. She remembered that she didn't hear the whispers when she used her power, but the whispers returned when she's attacked by the serial killer
"No… to be precise, when killing intent is directed towards her"
A flashed passed through her mind as she remembered the sad whispers that so familiar to her
'What was that whisper… wanted to convey?'
She shakes her head as she thinks about her power that can help her right now. She thought about her power
'The moment I used my power to locate the killer, the whispers didn't appear, but the moment the killer directed he's killing intent at me, the whispers appeared and I became incapacitated'
Then, is it possible that the whispers only appears when a killing intent is directed at me and will not appear when I use my power? But the moment in my experiment when I used my power, the whispers appeared… but, is it possible that the pain of my heart back then changes things somehow?'
Then Ilaya resolved herself
"There's only one way to know isn't?"
Ilaya didn't hesitate as she activates her senses of touch, as she doesn't care about what happened to her. She's either going to die from her power or die at the killer's blade. She doesn't care anymore, she's much more willing to die in the whispers than to die from being stabbed to death
She then feels the environment temperature rise as she's a human being that's alive. Her body has tainted the environment with her heat and turned the whole room warm
She turned excited as she didn't hear any whispers
"The whispers are gone! I can use my power now!"
She felt excited for the first time ever since being in this situation. Ilaya then used her other senses. She enhanced her sight as she saw the spider across the wall, the spider turn into size of a dog in her vision. That sight gave her the horror comparable to the killer!
"Kyahhh!!"
She let an unintentional scream as she retracted her sense of sight. She activates her sense of taste next as she tasted her blood and bile that she vomited, that turned her excitement plummet. Then she used her enhanced hearing, she didn't even want to use her sense of smell, as that power is going to remind her of what would happen to her if she couldn't escape. Then, as her hearing is expanding, she hears someone walking and her hair stood on end and her wounds throbs again
Ilaya gasped for air and she trembled. She attempted to calm herself down but failed, her chest constricted as if she's under the water and she returned to her previous position. She curled herself in the corner as she hid her knife in her chest while holding it. Then, she used her power of hearing to locate where's the position of the killer, and her sense of touch to sense her muscles in her arms and legs to take a one chance to survival
She couldn't control her power properly, but she managed to achieve some basic control over it. As she hears to sounds of footsteps closing in the room, she feels and indescribable anxiety as her breathing shortened and her body trembled
Then, she hears of the locked clanking, and the door opened