In front of the squad there is an abandoned house. It’s dark, and the place stinks of rotting corpses. The ground is littered with garbage, clothes and dead corpses. There is no sound anywhere, save the wind whistling through the ruins. Paz is the first to take out her gun.

— Should we enter, sir? she asks the colonel, who’s now standing, looking intently at the broken windows of the empty building, ready to open fire at any moment.

Miles nods slowly and quietly signals the squad to go.