The boy didn't come closer. Evelyn Ford and Ronan Kendrick didn't step forward either. The others were stunned silent by the boy's appearance; even Taylor Vance and Zion Lowell were visibly shocked.
"This person..."
Evelyn Ford glanced back at Quincy, signaling for him to be quiet. Quincy was so scared he immediately clapped a hand over his mouth.
The boy stared at the group for several minutes. Only when he sensed no malice from Evelyn Ford and the others did he slowly walk over.
"Who are you people?"
He looked at Ronan Kendrick and suddenly spoke. Perhaps because of his cleft lip and split tongue, his speech was garbled. His Mandarin wasn't standard either, tinged with an Oakhaven dialect.
Evelyn Ford was surprised he could speak at all, and even more surprised that he seemed to be of sound mind.
