''It was a friend,'' Rachael Laurie said haltingly. ''And I was asleep.''
She is talking about the man she says raped her in March of this year.
''At the time, to begin with, I didn't understand what had happened.''
Ms Laurie is a sociology student from Hamilton. She's 23 years old. She moved to Dunedin to study.
By March, Ms Laurie had made a life for herself here. She had a part-time job on the weekends. She was living with people she liked. She'd made friends in Dunedin.
But when she was raped that month, Ms Laurie reached out to find a support system that - for the most part - utterly failed her.
''I tried talking to some friends ... Some were supportive, but too far away to help. And others were really unhelpful.
''I got people telling me that I was being overly dramatic - that worse things had happened to other people.''
Other friends told her she should keep the rape to herself.
''That really hurt,'' she said.
''When it came down to it, they weren't able to support me.''
She was shocked by the lack of support, Ms Laurie said.
''I thought that society had gotten past that.
''I don't know; obviously we're still in the dark ages a bit.''
After months of trying to deal with the rape on her own, she became depressed and felt helpless, Ms Laurie said.
She went to Waikato Hospital, where the mental health team referred her to Rape Crisis Dunedin.
''[The Rape Crisis counsellor] first helped me by affirming what had happened. And she helped me going through the process of going to the police and reporting it to the police. And then I was able to find an ACC-funded counsellor.''
Although she reported the rape to police, Ms Laurie eventually decided not to press charges. Because of her circumstances, the whole process would be ''too complicated'', she said.
Now, almost six months after the rape, Ms Laurie is preparing to run the Dunedin Half-marathon. She was running to raise funds for Rape Crisis, she said, and also as part of her healing process.
''Running the marathon for me is about getting my power back. You need a lot of strength to be able to get through a marathon.''
It will be her second half-marathon.
After the rape, Ms Laurie said, ''I was thinking, 'OK, what can I do to make myself happy again?' And I saw the signs for the marathon, and I thought, 'OK, let's train for the marathon'.''
She hoped her running would inspire people to give to Rape Crisis through its Give A Little page. She also hoped it would raise awareness about societal attitudes around rape - attitudes that she was unaware of herself until she had to face them head on.
''When I went to work the weekend afterwards and I was wanting to tell people at work what had happened to me, and then like, but I can't, because it's too embarrassing somehow - it's a dirty thing that we don't talk about. And I think that stops a lot of women from seeking help,'' she said.
''I would say that the ideas around rape are internalised long before anything ever happens to a survivor.
''And that can have an incredible impact, immediately, of feeling absolute shame and feeling too embarrassed to tell anyone.
''So I think what society needs to be doing is to change the way we see survivors. To change what it means to be a rape survivor.''
