The purple light only lasted a few seconds, but when it was gone, something was definitely different, because everyone in the room, except for Dawn, was gone. They had vanished into thin air. Their plates of food were still sitting on the tables, but every person was gone, just gone.
Dawn ran around the café, looking into every possible place where someone could hide (the eating area, the kitchen, the bathrooms), but she really was the only one there.
What had happened?