Parker didn't have any more idea of what was following them than Lisa did, but she'd picked up a thing or two about the town during her earlier exploration of it. This place liked to frighten you, so the trick was figuring out what was just rattling chains and what was a true threat. Footsteps that stayed a safe -- haha, as if anything about this was safe -- distance behind you was pretty low on Parker's list of worries.
"Baseball. Wrestling. Soccer. That's good." Ben could run, then. He could hit, if he had the right weapon. And he might have some chance of getting away if something tackled him.
Parker dodged around a group of hooded figures on the sidewalk ahead of them and gestured to one of the shops in the square ahead. "That looks like a pizza place. Let's start there."