“What are you talking about?” The girl was frightened, her distorted due to fear.
“Nothing important, I was just asking you if you’ve seen two people that I happen to be looking for.” The hooknose woman fished out two photos from her uniform pocket. “Here they are, an eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy, and a twelve-year-old girl.”
“No… I didn’t see them at all.” Seeing the familiar faces on the photos, the girl lied with a stutter.
Her incompetent lying skills sold her out to the professionally trained soldiers. The woman squinted at the girl, then grabbed the collar of her shirt, lifting the girl up so that she could see into her eyes. She scanned the girl’s face, then threw her to one of the soldiers.
