"..."
The passionate new soldier immediately calmed down.
He looked somewhat taken aback.
The others also fell silent, puzzled.
Did that mean… they had already been up there and then came back down?
But what were the two of them doing on the first floor?
*
On the other side.
Flossie Wright and Belinda Nichols entered.
The lights in the first-floor corridor were all on, but the sporadic sound of gunfire hinted at the fierce firefight inside.
Perhaps after the initial exchange, the veteran soldiers assumed that the new soldiers had taken action, leaving the entrance unguarded.
Soon after entering, the two exchanged a glance and swiftly spread out, silently sliding along the walls towards the inside.
Their movements were so light that the only trace they left was a faint current of air; their presence barely perceptible until they were close to others.
