Girls

The young women in Millington’s bunker, referred to collectively as 'the girls,' occupy an uneasy social space between adolescents and military personnel. Their chess sets—symbols of orderly intelligence and strategy—become targets of Millington’s escalating paranoia, reflecting his broader collapse in leadership. Under Perkins’ reluctant instruction, they surrender the sets, marking another erosion of normalcy in a camp already strained by supernatural dread. Their silence and compliance speak to institutional coercion rather than personal agency, leaving their individual identities obscured beneath the weight of wartime bureaucracy.