Blog #3

As the story continues after the fire fight with the minors, the whole base wants to know why these children are fighting. Elinor and her team go through multiple villages who are hostile towards everyone who is outside of their village until the sound of distant gunfire catches their attention. As the get nearer Elinor once again sees the mysterious girl in her blue dress and Elinor swears she sees her get shot. But later as they follow a blood trail they see that the girl is alive and perfectly fine but the blood came from a boy she was with. As the boy, Farshad dies he tells Elinor that the children fighting are the Young Martyrs who "kill murderers" like the soldiers and Taliban. Before Fashad dies, the girl tells him "Salamun Alaykum" which Massey later tells the reader that it is from the Qur'an as a welcome from the angels to the dead when they enter paradise. The girl then disappears once again and Massey leaves us just as confused as Elinor. Is she really going crazy or is this girl an angle of death?