The location of that specific counter was different from the others, it was near the shopping mall's emergency exit, and the fitting room exit led directly to the emergency exit door.
Victoria watched Charlotte enter the fitting room; she was also tired from shopping, so she sat on the counter's couch to rest and played with her phone for a while.
Initially, Charlotte came out with a different outfit but claimed she didn't like it much, so she went back to try another one.
Victoria didn't pay much attention at first. By the time she realized something was wrong, Charlotte must have already been missing for at least seven or eight minutes.
She went to the fitting room to check how Charlotte was getting on.
After calling out several times, there was no response from inside.
It was at this point that Victoria started to panic and hurriedly pulled open the curtain.
All that could be seen in the fitting room was a pile of clothes; there was no sign of Charlotte anywhere.