"Everyone, please get down. Protect your heads." The male teacher was making the students lower their heads and be in a defensive yet submissive position. He needed to make the armed men see that they were just harmless children. Soon, he saw how Darcy led the Grade 7 students to the big mass and asked them to do the same. "Just stay low. You'll be all right."
"…what did they want, Renard?" Even Darcy decided to get down to hug a trembling student. She could also shield the students if she could put her body on the same level as theirs.
"They haven't said anything yet." Renard wanted to ask, but the armed men looked like they wouldn't tell him anything at all. Soon enough, the armed men started to loosely surround them. He then looked up at the one who came to their bus. "Sir, please don't execute us…"