For a moment, when the small portal opened in the room, Katie's heart jumped. He came back! But within half a moment she realized that the door hadn't opened, only this little cubby for passing small objects back and forth.<br/><br/>She was still damp and warm from her extended shower. The bathing and the almost non-stop tears left her feeling exhausted  but hollow and somehow cleaner than before. She tiptoed over from where she'd sat on the edge of the bed and took the plastic plate from the portal.<br/><br/>At least he was going to make sure she didn't starve. This brought her some hope that he hadn't entirely thrown her aside yet; regardless, Katie was careful with how much of the sandwich she ate. In her previous home, it wasn't uncommon for girls to bully each other to the point of starving the younger of weaker ones just out of spite. Being conservative was a survival technique. She drank every drop of water but saved half of her food for later, just in case he couldn't or wouldn't provide any more soon.<br/><br/>Sated and tired and just a little sore from the new types of excercise she'd been recieving in the last day, Katie made her way back to bed. She curled up in a small ball beneath the comforter and just knew that her overload of anxiety and fear would keep her gripped for the rest of the time before he returned.<br/><br/>She was wrong. As soon as the covers were pulled up over her head, she was deeply asleep.