Trapped beneath a mountain of rubble and resigned to the fact she may not make it out alive, Clemency Mutze began saying her last prayers.
"I just thought this is it. It's over. I want to die in peace."
Just moments earlier she had been leafing through a magazine in a waiting room on the fifth floor of the CTV building in central Christchurch.
But as the building crumbled around her, breaking her back, shattering her tailbone, and pinning her body, Clemency - fearing the worst - was willing for it to be over.
"There was one point where I smelt smoke in the building that's when I knew it was really, really bad."