I laughed quietly.
"Where are they?" I asked as I began looking around the basement.
"Outa front witha the lady," he said.
There were only a few crates left in the basement, all opened. There were a couple of volumes of books in the crates that looked so old that they could've been handed around by the passengers of Noah's Ark, but I didn't have time to inspect them.
"Alright," I said, "let's see if we can get out of this place alive."
"I'ma witha you," Luigi said as we crept back up the stairs.
I slowly opened the door...