The "Peace Seekers" hideout hummed with a newfound resolve. Shihab’s announcement of the Al Noor Island evacuation project had ignited a flame. A large, hand-drawn map of the city was now pinned to the main wall, with safe routes sketched in red and danger zones marked in ominous black. A list of potential evacuees was being compiled, a growing scroll of names that represented a hundred futures they had sworn to protect.
It was Karam and Karima, a formidable duo whose quiet understanding needed few words, who took the first high-risk mission. The plea had come through a fragile, encrypted online channel they used to reach scattered survivors. The message was from a woman named Battol. She lived with her three children on the distant outskirts, in a house that had once enjoyed a view of th
