From inside the monastery the bell was heard, ringing out from the watchtower to alert them those inside that someone was coming. The priests may have been hidden within the trees, but the demon on watch could feel them approaching.

From within the supernaturals armed themselves, and Meifeng took her rifle and knives and ran to a position where she would be sheltered but able to fire. There had been a gate around the courtyard once in times long ago, but for many years it had been gone. Everything was free to enter, and it gave the people within no way to keep others out of the complex, only the separate buildings.