Mira Pov
The line didn't break immediately after the men left.
For a few seconds, everyone just stood there.
Like nobody knew if they were allowed to move.
The side door had already closed behind the girls they'd taken, but I couldn't stop looking at it.
Five girls went just like that.
The room feels bigger now, not because it actually was.
Because there were fewer people inside it.
The silence stretched until one of the guards near the wall finally spoke.
"Sit."
People moved immediately.
I sat too.
The moment I reached the bench, my legs felt heavier than before. Across the room, one of the girls suddenly burst into tears. Not the quiet crying I'd been hearing all day.
Real crying, the kind that came from somewhere deep.
"No," she whispered. "No, no, no..."
Nobody told her
