Hopelessly Outnumbered

As soon as Valerie finished her sentence, she heard the sound of footsteps hurrying toward her, and it was getting closer and closer by the second.

Immediately after that, a beam of very bright light was cast upon Valerie and the others. Due to the distance, the beam seemed somewhat dim at first, but then it began to intensify.

"I knew it! I wondered why there wasn't anybody at that dilapidated ho