The situation in the refugee settlement had improved considerably under the new instructor.
Food was being distributed regularly, clean drinking water was available, and the injured were receiving proper treatment. The refugees were no longer fighting over every small portion of food. Even the children had begun playing around the carts instead of sitting quietly beside their exhausted parents.
For the first time in many days, people were beginning to believe that they might survive the journey north.
Yet something unusual had started happening.
People were disappearing.
At first, nobody paid much attention.
A few refugees had gone missing during the night, and their families assumed they had wandered away in search of food or a place to relieve themselves. But after two days, those same people returned.
And they were no longer the same.
Their behaviour had changed dramatically.
