The complication was resolved; a squad would consist of two individuals, and deploying this tactic, they would attempt to breach the establishments boasting doors opening straight into the Trade Plaza.
They refused to relinquish their ambitions, yet the guards stationed at the doors of the shops with ostentatiously decorated display windows repelled them every time.
Only a sparse number of shops possessed entrance doors opening straight into the Trade Plaza anyway; there were at most two shops in the perimeter between the dead-end alleys, equating to twenty establishments flanked by guards at their entrances. Failing to breach them, the Ninth Ward students pivoted their route toward the shops positioned at the entrances of the dead-end alleys; at the very least, perhaps they could procure something from these locations.
