Goosebumps spread across her thin arms while fresh mucus mixed with blood dripped from her nose. She felt like she was freezing to death. And since she hadn’t had anything to drink since the previous night, she was parched, too. She started licking the cold water off her arms and chest. It wasn’t enough to quench her thirst, so she lapped at the puddle of dirty bath water underneath her. Some of the bloody mucus from her nose landed in the puddle as well.
