Fortunately for Aqua, he wasn't quite as fast as Ven. Unfortunately for her, Sora was still running pretty fast. But fortunately again for her, since the party was so crowded, Sora was having trouble weaving through people without bumping into them. While he got close to the stairs, he was stopped by a group of friends in a cluster, chatting with each other. A bit of slipping around by the wall, and he was then just a few steps from the stairs...