difficult to manage. >> reporter: even now this girl wanted anonymity fearing a massacre if the regime returns even as she depicts it close to collapse. >> translator: in this drawing i imagine the syrian regime right now. this is bashar al assad's shadow. his regime is only an image. the regime has actually collapsed and is afraid of its own shadow and everything around it. >> reporter: the regime and the al whites are terrified of what will happen. for them it's an existential in a moment. damascus in a year's time it could look much like aleppo, destroyed. assad is unlikely to lay down his arms. >> reporter: sometimes class ends before the bell when the power cuts out. so young they've already learned to take sides to cheer on fighters to victory. syria's two years of darkness