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Lavi and Ayame entered the store, Ayame nearly hopping with excitement as she clung to Lavi's pants leg and focused on the store before her. She loved going to the store, it always meant she went home with something new to draw with, or clothes that made her feel like one of her drawings. Her wings fluttered with excited anticipation. Impressively Ayame stayed quiet, contrary to her usual demeanor, though it must have been an effort for the sheer amount of physical exertion she performed instead

As Lavi began to walk so did Ayame, her eyes wide and taking in everything with an eager desire to "know". Her sight soon settled on Layla and the little butterfly girl could feel the womans stress, compelling her to draw but, for lack of something to draw on she tugged at Lavi's leg until her guardian ceased to go towards the clothing and, eyes on her ancy illusion, began to head in Layla's direction, much to Ayame's pleasure. Lavi lifted her gaze to see what she was being led to and found herself short of Layla, the stress evident in her eyes and the feeling of another illusionary guardian about her.

"Are you alright miss?" she turned to look down at Ayame for a moment, "It's ok, you can calm down, why don't you say hello since you've brought us over here littling."

Ayame smiled and nodded, satisfied, and went over to Layla, giving her a judgemental look before greeting her as she smoothed her dress, it's silken fabric a blending match of pink and silver to accompany wings and hair.

"Hello, I am Ayame!"

Ayame grinned and turned her attention to Tamesis, where her eyes locked with his. He had wings too...but they were black and a little smaller. She quietly reached up to try and make contact but her cursed height was still not enough, thus she settled with waving at the other illusion. She fluttered her wings in a quiet attempt at companionship and continued to look up at him inquisitively.

Lavi nodded with a smile. so Ayame had led her to a new guardian who seemed about ready to collapse.

"Lavi, Lavi Devinheart. Good to meet you properly miss Layla. Ayame is a bit energetic at times, but she's mellowing out a bit, your Tamesis shouldn't be that hard to care for, he's so quiet and calm, what has you in such a rush and beyond the new bond between you, stressed? you're going to run yourself into the ground continuing like this."

She reached out slowly and ruffled Tamesis's hair with a smile. He was so quiet at his age compared to how Ayame had been then, how quaint!

Lavi gave another soft smile and lay a hand on Layla's shoulder. "These are more then children, at least Ayame is to me, these are our charges as they come from a world with more chaos then you an imagine...." her voice lowered almost to a whisper, "it's something you have to see to fully understand..."

She perked back up quickly, setting aside the visions of turmoil and chaos she had experienced and turning towards what thus far looked to be a better future, at least from what she could tell of the other Illusions. I'll help you through this love, you can count on me to lend a hand when you can't stand on your own two feet from any problems you're having. All you need to do is know, just know, and you won't have a problem with your confidence or anything your adorable little Tamesis could put you through.

Ayame pouted when the little illusion held his wings away, making only one more brief attempt to touch them before her attention diverted itself to Tamesis himself. A little timidly she leaned forward and looked him over more thoroughly. She could feel something about him, hiding what should have been his element as Aure*[PD What are Friends?] had taught her during her visit.

Ayame listened as Tamesis tried to speak and found herself reminded of how she had been recently, able to understand but not to talk enough to be understood very well. She nodded, knowing what he meant and pointed at him, "Tamesis, Illusion." then back at herself "Ayame, Illusion!" She edged closer to peer right into his eyes, keeping her hands at her sides and out a little as she peered at him, her wings fanning open and closed slowly. After a moment she proferred a hand, slowly, and held it palm up to him. "Happy to meet you, Tamesis."

Lavi nodded and then smiled as a thought occured to her, "Do you and Tamesis need somewhere to stay for a while? Tamesis can share a room with Ayame and you can take my bed, i've wanted a good excuse to camp out on the couch since I got it." She looked past Layla at the cart and shook her head. "You won't need nearly half of what you've gotten If 'm any judge of things, " she picked up a toy that looked far closer to a toy for a girl, "like this, i wouldn't think, unless you got it for yourself!" She smiled softly and placed her hand on Layla's shoulder caringly. "I'll do what I can to help you two out. Oh! look at his smile! That blush makes him adorable!"

Ayame grinned gleefully, her wings beating rapidly in her excitement. What could she do with this new playmate? What would he do? she waited eagerly, hopping slightly from her inability to contain her new found energy.

She soon found an outlet as she backed up a few steps and beckoned for Tamesis to follow. Surely there was something here they could do for fun while her guardian and the other Woman...Layla she had called herself?...talked!

"No, I could help show you a number of things you have that can be put back or show you things you might want. Having Ayame has..." She drifted off as she thought about Mereneth and her connection to him before she had gotten sucked into the illusionary world, surely leaving him crying....She shook her head and returned to the subject, now was not the time to get worked up.

She smiled, a facade but enough for ehr to run past the subject of Mereneth. "Well, you always know you have a place with me if you need it, I'm sure you know Shen? She can guide you to my place if these directions aren't enough." Lavi wrote down a set of directions, though close to illegible by writing on her knee, they might well do the trick. "And i'm certain Ayame would be pleased to have Tamesis over... She looked around to try to find the little butterfly girl and her new companion and her mouth fell open in shock, as the two were not to be found!

Ayame had taken Tamesis by the hand as soon as he started forward, a gleeful smile on her face, and tugged him on as fast as she could get him to go, laughing and flapping her wings as if they might enable her to bring them faster into the forest of clothing racks and valley's of varied supplies, toy's and other gloriously odd devices of which she had no knowledge of what they were for. She stopped to giggle and breathe as she looked Tamesis in the eye with a mischevious smile, They would have so much fun!

Lavi and Layla were at the back of her mind now, not the slightest thought fleeting forward to suggest that her escapade into the belly of the beast of a store might bring anything but entertainment. "Tamesis happy? This place is so big and there's so many things to play with!"

Lavi was shocked, and although not entirely swallowed with worry was a near panicing. She looked around, somewhat frantically before turning her attention back to Layla. "You didn't see where they went did you?" She pushed her buggy aside and kneeled down, eyeing under the racks in hopes of locating them; how long could they have been gone?

She stood back up and looked around before looking back to Layla. "Do we split up or go together....They shouldn't be in any danger, Ayame knows well enough to not have anything to do with strangers she hasn't met with me and found to be ok...but I don't know what your Tamesis is like." She continued to fret, glancing around the store and wanting to run off looking, only she couldn't allow herself to leave Layla standing there, the woman had been stressed as it was when she met her.

Ayame nodded, her smile broadening as far as it could, she liked the little illlusion, he was quiet but his smile felt like getting a new set of crayons, and it was constant! She fluttered her wings and tugged him into a rack of clothing to hide as a store clerk walked by. That was the one thing that might get in the way of her fun with her new found friend. She sat down on one of the circular poles that made a rack for some very big shirts and smiled up at Tamesis.

"Ayame is happy, Tamesis still Happy?" This little adventure had her giddy with excitement, and to have Tamesis with her made it more of an adventure, adventures were always more fun with another, especially when they were close to your age! Ger sight caught on to the glint of silver in his eyes as she focused on him. "Bestest friends?" She held out her hand again, smiling with satisfaction, near certain of his answer. She was ready to make another dash through part of the store again, him in tow, though she would wait on her friend this time. If all it took to have fun was to run around with him, they wouldn't need to find anything to do. Besides, there was something about him that made her wonder, that there was something....about him. [and before your mind wanders, no i'm not going in that direction...yet...i'm not sure where i'm going entirely, to be honest XD]

Lavi did her best not to get mad at the woman for saying such contemptable things about her little Ayame. This was a crisis, and they were both frustrated and worked up. She took a quick breath instead of yelling back at Layla and nodded as the kitsune woman let her nose and logic do the work. "Then let's go, they may be little but i've learned to not doubt how far they can get in a small amount of time!"

With that Lavi turned to go in the direction Layla indicated, all thoughts of shopping temporarily forgotten.

Ayame looked back at Tamesis and grinned before he pulled her into the shadows as another set of feet went by. She looked over at Tam, he udnerstood how this worked fast! Yet his eyes..... She shook her head and took him by the arm again as they plowed out of the clothes and made a dash closer to where all the truly fun stuff was. "Tamesis like toys? We have more fun if we go to toys ."

She ducked into an opening between two set's of shelves, it was dark but spacious inside, and at the end she could see their goal!