[h3] Ranch House, Unknown Location [/h3]
Oren was ready to die. 

Well, 'ready' was the wrong word. 

She'd forsaken any other possibility. 

That was, when she caught the knife being put away she felt almost.. [i]cheated[/i]

Was all this, the girl showing up, the exchange, just some other trick to try and get something out of her?

Just then, Hat Guy pushed her head up, and Oren felt water splashing into her mouth. In previous days she might have spat said water directly into her tormenter's facr  in a bitter act of rebellion. Now, she was too weak and sick and resigned to her fate to both with such a futile gesture. As the water hit her throat her stomach reacted with objection to the now unfamiliar sensation, and Oren coughed and gagged, splashing some of the water onto the floor. 

She wish he'd finished it.