Silence!!!
The only thing that echoes in the warehouse and the people in it stupefied as if strucked by lightening or stopped in time.
"Aliya!!" Mr. Ezekiel's ragged breathing return after holding it and he start to move his battered body trying to reach the two ladies who are still stucked in their positions.
"Aliya!, Aliya!" Panic start to rise in him as the silence continues to deafen without Aliya replying to him and he start to think of the worst.
His friend has died an unexpected brutal death and his only line followed him all because of these people's greediness and selfishness. He never thought the little girl he knew will also be subjected to the same fate as her father and all in the doings of her bestfriends whom she cared for and trusted with her life.
"A-Ali.."
"It's over...am f-fine!" Relief wash over mr. Ezekiel features hearing his friend's daughter voice instead of her ex friend's own.