🥀 ARWAN'S POV 🥀 I stood in stunned silence, my mind reeling from what I had just seen. The empty, destroyed surroundings seemed to fade away, leaving only the stark, harsh reality of the calamity that had befallen us. They are all dead, hundreds and thousands of people are dead and burnt, some had no heart, Melonie had dug them out, some faces had been burnt, and I could barely recognise them. Adults and children were murdered in cold blood. My breath was knocked out of me. My thoughts were a jumbled mess, unable to process the enormity of the scene that had just played out. “That was my Melonie – right?" I whispered; my voice barely audible. The words echoed in my mind, refusing to sink in. It was as if I was trapped in a nightmare, unable to wake up from the horror that was unfoldi

