Day 2,106

Smoke fills the room, stinging her eyes and making her cough til her lungs ache. Somewhere further inside the house, a baby cries but she won't go to it. Not after spending the last few hours barricading the nursery door and starting the fires.

It must have escaped from there somehow, possibly through the vent she couldn't reach beneath the cot. It seemed safer to go for the major exits and hope it was too big to fit anywhere else. Yet again she'd made an assumption and been proven wrong as she heard tiny fists beating against the door behind her