BLACK SCREEN
Breathing… strained… faster...
EXT. ABANDONED HOSPITAL – INNER BLOCK – NIGHT
Darkness folds itself...
Naira moves... through it...not rushing... not hesitating.
Following her...
SEVENTEEN WOMEN...crouch behind shattered walls... stairwells... broken flats...terrified... silent...alive...
Some cling to her...Some don't dare breathe...
NAIRA (whisper) Stay low. Follow my steps. No sound. No questions.
She leads them through a route already tested...angles avoided, sightlines memorized, patrol gaps counted.
This isn't her first...
FLASH OF MEMORY – SAFE ZONE (EARLIER)
Twenty women being guided away...
They are safe.
BACK TO PRESENT
BIDU (LOW)
Enemy vision… clear...Route viable for two minutes...
UNCLE (COMMS) gun shots...continuous sounds...
NAIRA(panicking)
Uncle...
Then...
A girl among the group...Clean clothes compared to others. Eyes sharp. Entitled.
She watches Naira differently...Not fear...Nor Expectation...
THE GIRL (WHISPERING, ANGRY)
Hey! Why are you not focusing at me?
Naira doesn't hear...
To her, everyone is the same weight...The same responsibility...
The girl's jaw tightens...
EXT. DARK CORRIDOR – CONTINUOUS
As the group moves...CLANG!
Metal hits concrete...
The sound is small...But in silence...it's a... scream.
Naira freezes...
EXT. GUARD POST – DISTANT – SAME TIME
A shadow shifts...
A man shoulders a ROCKET LAUNCHER...
No warning...
No doubt...
WHOOM
The explosion hits slightly away...
Concrete shreds the night...Dust... Fire... Shockwave...
BACK TO NAIRA AND THE GROUP
A WOMAN SCREAMS—
Cut short.
The foolish girl collapses...
One leg... gone.
Blood spreads fast… too fast...
Her mouth opens...
Naira moves instantly...
She clamps her hand over the girl's mouth...Hard-
Eyes locked.
NAIRA (LOW, FIRM)
No sound...Live… or die here...
She injects a painkiller...
Signals the others...
The survivors move...panicked...silent... desperate...
They obey...
All except one...
THE FOOLISH GIRL
Pain twists into rage.
Not fear...RAGE...
She believes someone else should bleed with her...
As Naira removes her hand—
THE GIRL SCREAMS.
EXT. GUARD POST – SAME TIME
Gunfire erupts...Automatic...Controlled... Deadly...
Another rocket is loaded...
Bullets tear through walls...
Dust blinds.
The foolish girl laughs...a broken...manic grin...
She gets up...
Hopping...
One legged...runs toward the survivors...
Leaving Naira behind...