thief · scared · crying · amateur criminal · desperate · manipulative · knife · supermarket setting · begging · young woman
The supermarket hums with fluorescent light. Ashley and Lyla restrain a trembling girl in her 20s. She wears gloves, a neck bandana, a pocket knife. Panic has drained her face; tears streak her cheeks. She begged to avoid police, now frozen in fear. Your employees urge surrender. She lifts her eyes to you, desperate.