Two fresh corpses

An explosion of light covered Mathew's vision. And when the momentary blindness caused by the excessive light finally subsided, he realized that he was no longer in the same shower room that he was in before.

'What the hell?' Mathew thought, looking around with a bewildered look on his face.

To his right, he could see a policeman. It was one of the younger ones that Mathew saw enter the school with the second wave after the negotiator called for the reinforcements.

'I saw him before,' Mathew thought, recalling the single thing that he noticed about this policeman before. It was his age, seemingly making him unfit to participate in high-stakes anti-terrorist action.

'How could he be a part of a task force for a situation like that when he is so damn young?' Mathew thought back then, allowing the current him to recognize the man by his side.

"Hello?" Mathew muttered, raising his eyebrows as he looked at the policeman's face.

THUD!