The hostage situation on the inside, for one, was real.
As Lila entered, she made a quick head count of the hostages and took note of the men standing guard over them. All in masks it appeared. With weapons and some no weapons, which she assumed meant they had abilities.
Twenty four people on the floor along the far wall. Settlement coordinators from the insignia on their jackets, their staff, two security personnel who no longer had their weapons. Most of them frightened and still. Some of them had been crying and had stopped. The kind of stillness that came after a long time of not knowing what was going to happen next.
Dara moved immediately toward the wounded coordinator without being told to. Lila watched her go and then looked at the room properly.
