<strong>Kate's death</strong><br/><br/>Kate was busy packing the bloody clothes into her wounds again, pale and trembling. She suddenly noticed that a shadow was on her. She lifted her head and looked up. Here was the other woman and... her eyes grew wide in panic as the Major pointed her gun almost against her forehead. Kate's eyes crossed over the barrel and the silencer. Her mouth formed an O, she began to utter a plead but it never left her throat. At close range, she saw the deadly mechanism of the weapon operating, as in slow motion. Her last sight was the flash of light as the bullet left the barrel.<br/><br/>A moment later she was lying back on the floor, a neat red hole between the eyes, and a whole part of her occipital bone reduced to pulp.