Hurry Up And Wait

I was sitting in the beautiful living room of Li Dai Lu's mountain retreat, waiting for her to get changed into something more comfortable when suddenly, seven men and a woman appeared in front of me. I jumped at their sudden approach before swearing under my breath.

Was this going to be my new life? People randomly appearing in front of me? If so, they needed to have bells on or something because this just wasn't fair.

"Firefly?" came the voice of one of the men, startling me out of my thoughts about how to make my bedroom safer from intruders.

Looking up, I gasped, "Bin An Sha!" Launching myself off of the couch and straight into his arms, I breathed a sigh of relief. "You're here."

"We all are, Little Viper," growled Si Dong, clearly about as impressed with all of this as I was. "Time to get you home."