Footsteps grew louder, closing fast, and Jin didn't wait to see how many.
"In here," he said, already moving toward the nearest building, a squat, half-collapsed convenience store with a door hanging loose on one hinge. "Cover positions. Nobody's visible from the street."
The group slipped inside fast, spreading along the interior walls, crouching below the shattered front windows. Haneul pressed himself into the deepest shadow the back corner offered, staff held low. Areum flattened against the wall beside the door, palms already warm. Do-yun and Joon took opposite sides of the front window frame, Echo settling near the center where he could still track sound without exposing himself.
Jin crouched near the doorway, watching through the gap where the door no longer sat flush against its frame.
