[When Lloyd tenses, Zack slowly sits up with his back to the wall in case he needs to move quickly. No sense letting his friend fight alone if that's what it comes to.]

That big flood a while back. Whole place was underwater so it was pretty messed up. Managed to fix the ground floor once the water went down, but the upper levels are still pretty rotted out. Can barely get up there without stepping on a bad floorboard.