It was mid-afternoon when Hana finally blinked her eyes open, her vision automatically filling with the crisp, cool neon text of her Day 09 interface she had ignored when it woke her up early.
> [Daily Login: Day 9]
> Maternal Status: 100% Core Energy Restored.
> Fetal Development: Day 09 / Structural Mass Increasing Rapidly.
> Current Balance: -842,880 Points.
She had been so exhausted that she slept way past her wake up time. Even the system chiming could not do a thing about it.
She sat up slowly, her dark eyes instantly cold and functional once more.
The jagged gray scar on her right side was perfectly crusted over, completely painless now.
She slid off the mattress, unceremoniously strapping her fresh black tactical uniform over her torso, her fingers tightening the leather buckles of her harness with a practiced, unfeeling precision.
She walked out to the mouth of the den, stepping into the blazing mid-afternoon sun.
