The air was crisp and dry as it churned around the crouching members of group E. The compound lay beneath them, nestled into the side of the sand dune like the swirling sands would be able to hide the horrors that lay inside. It was a sprawling complex, several building dotted around its outskirts whilst the main building lay at its centre. Arabella’s group had been assigned to enter near the back of the compound, where fewer guards were stationed. The reconnaissance teams had scoped out this area beforehand, establishing that this was where most of the offices and workshops were.
They had predicted that the children, if the compound was where they were kept, were likely to be near the Eastern side of the complex – where several smaller buildings stood behind a tall, spiked fence. Group
