Kat shuddered, but before she could try and take stock of the situation, there was pain. Everything was pain. Her body screamed at her, she couldn't properly feel what was going on. She tried to order her eyes to open, but that only caused even more pain to slam through her body and mind… until suddenly, it all stopped.
There was still a dull ache that attached itself to her mind, but she could start forming coherent thoughts. Before it was only pain, and now only around half of her mind was filled with pain, and she could push that to the back of her mind and ignore it to some extent to help with that.
Her thoughts were coming together slowly though. She could think again, but only at a drastically reduced speed. She didn't have time to fully form any thoughts before a gentle voice seeped into her ears, or she thought it did. She'd later be proved wrong.
