"Onward!" proclaimed Sebastian, taking the paper and replacing its spot on the wall with a card displaying their office number.  He'd caught his breath by then, and was excited to get on with the mission.  "So, kill mission, located near the south, spiky wolf," he rambled, reading off the paper as he jumped stairs three at a time.  His free hand hovered over the rail, but the safety of it was far from.  Amazingly, he managed not to slip or stumble, which unfortunately could not also be said of Ethan.

Ethan gripped the rail tightly as if he feared the stairs beneath him would suddenly vanish.  He tripped about every couple stairs, and once nearly fell.  Oddly, he'd had no difficulty walking up them earlier.