It took less than five minutes for back-up to finally come. At that point, most of Baral's men had run, but some were still seized. The five large guys in the same room as us were all arrested alongside their fallen leader. The ambulance took Mr. Farden away, while a few medical officers went on-site to check up on the rest of us. When we were all cleared for transport, a Council van took us away into an undisclosed location. The seven of us high school students sat in the vehicle, all quiet and barely moving until a different set of agents led us into a building and into a room that looked like the one I had first met General Pally in.
“Tough night for you kids, huh?” one of the agents said before leaving us there to sit and wait. Our prom clothes were all tattered and blood-stained, our
