Bethany..
Some time early the next morning, Bethany heard the first stirrings of what sounded like a battle. Men were shouting, the noise getting ever closer, and then the sound of the first gun went off. Bethany sat up so quickly she got dizzy. Some of the other women started to wake up around Bethany.
“What was that?”
“Was that a gun?”
The murmured questions flew, but Bethany shushed them all, listening hard. Soon more gunfire sounded, unmistakable, along with the sound of something crashing to the ground heavily. A couple of women screamed, little brief squeals that were really more exhales than actual screams. The noise now sounded like it was directly above them and most of the women began to cower as dust rained down on them from above. A few whimpered, almost all curled in or on
