As MingYu hurried out of the door with his pewter staff in hand, he nearly crashed into YueQin who had run over from her room. But that didn't slow down his pace as he dashed for the stairs with both her and ZhiYi hot on his heels.
"Did you hear it?" YueQin snapped, her eyes wide with a mixture of excitement and uneasiness as all three of them hurried down the stairs and nearly shoved each other off-balance with how fast they wanted to get out on the street.
"Yes! The scream!" MingYu hollered as AhXin's basket hit him in the ass and nearly sent him flying down the steps, but ZhiYi reached out in time to keep him steady, mumbling a little 'sorry' in his ear. But MingYu didn't pay it much thought. His mind was honed in on whatever was happening outside. The rings of his pewter staff jumped in their hoops, their rattle almost deafening.
