"No. I was out when she sun went down, back towards the houses."

She doesn't know if staying in would have made things better or worse, but while she's engineered to run on less sleep, three nights of no sleep had left her edgy and worse for wear, desperate to find the source of the noise so she could put an end to it. Helicopters and heartbeats start to echo in her mind and she rubs at her eyes again, shaking her head to clear them.

"I thought I could find it. Catch it, kill it, whatever. I was wrong."