"Or not," I added, keeping my voice level and my stare. "The choice is yours."
Mind you, they didn't have a lot of time to make that choice.
Here was hoping that they were smart enough to understand the situation they were facing.
Yuche moved first. He stepped back toward the porch without hesitation, his hands dropping from the metal barrier he had been forcing into place. Chenghai followed immediately after, his bloodied fists lowering as he stepped away from the zombie he had been about to crush.
Zhenlan shifted back, adjusting his stance to cover the pullback, and Lingyun moved with them, his fire dimming as he gave ground.
None of them questioned it. None of them looked at each other. They just moved.
But just as they gave up the little ground they managed to claw back, the horde didn't hesitate to take it again.
