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Listening to the comforting voice, the brown-haired girl combed anxiously at Vana's hair, as if the motion might somehow ward the babe of whatever forces were at play. Shira made a good deal of sense, at least to Danny's panicked mind; she couldn't have known the danger, and it wasn't fair (or particularly healthy) to blame herself. There was no banishing the feeling of guilt, though; miserably, Danny murmured back, "I should've known, though...." But Shira's reassurance had found a much-needed home, and although the Guardian was in no way a rational state of mind, she was able to regain some of her composure.

In her arms, Vana was beginning to calm down; the babe was still making small, melancholy sounds, but the waterworks were slowing to a trickle. The loss of color in the world was a puzzling and frightening experience, but that hadn't bothered her half as much as the death of the plants- and so, recovering bit by bit from the shock and sadness that brought her, the little Lesidhe babe was scanning the room once more, alert and wary of the surrounding area.

Seeing Kyo with Xerk in hand seemed to have an especially poignant effect on Danny. Where Shira was comforting primarily in giving her hope that there might be some way out of this mess yet... Kyo had a child of her own to worry about. It wasn't just Vana and herself that were at risk, and if there were other parents in the same predicament that could be strong enough for their children's sake....

Danny knew she wasn't very strong, or brave, but... she thought could do it. She hoped.

While everyone was gathering their nerves, something outside was collecting around the headquarters itself. Where light once poured into the headquarters, something was beginning to block it out once more, leaving them looking at something that appeared to be endless dark. At least the electricity was working, for now. It wouldn't for long, though. Already the lights were beginning to sporadically flicker once more.

Out in the garden, if those in it were paying attention, the could see creatures of every shape, size and species, were beginning to come towards the large building. However, these weren't normal looking creatures.

While not shadows, exactly, they were a dark gray and appeared to be intangible. They also emitted a feeling as if they had come from death itself.

...And they didn't exactly look friendly. For now, they only stared, but they were there.

Kay was about to throw another kicking fit, hurt foot be damned, when she heard...Zah? What was he saying? And then she heard him hitting at the door and she curled into herself, giving him room for whatever he was trying to do. It took a bit, but the wood finally began to give, cracking and splintering until a small hole could be seen.

"Zah!" Tears were streaming down the little Sidhe's face and now that light could be seen...flickering? What the hell? "What's going on?!"

Being able to breathe had a certain calming affect on the girl.

At least they had something to pull the door open with now. The hole would definitely be easier to grasp then nothing at all.

((Just for clarification, I added Lobby & Garden maps to the first post of the RP. Also, the creatures have made their way into the garden and are in the grove of trees (As the walls haven't come down yet, and they're high. Apparently, they can walk through things)

>_> Forgot to mention that little fact.))

Lilianna backed away when a child approached the cupboard door. She watched Zasalamel try to open the door and watched a tiny hole break in the wood. She smiled slightly as she pulled out a piece of candy. Handing it to the boy, she removed her other hand from the door and waited to see what was going to happen next. The flickering lights didn't bother Lily at all. She was used to it after spending a few years of her life in a prison cell.

... Food.

The ******** world was coming to an end, and there was some chick prattling on about FOOD?

Unsurprisingly, Danny didn't make any motion to leave the Gardens and join everyone at the dinner table. She was far too busy trying to figure out what to do about the situation, thank-you-very-much.

Cuddled up against her Guardian's shoulder, Vana was being far more attentive to their surroundings- which would be why, naturally, the little babe was quick to spot the creatures sneaking about. "... Chirp?" Infinitely optimistic, she offered a small greeting to the shadow-things. She didn't know quite what to make of them... they weren't something she needed to protect, she was sure, but as to what they actually were? Vana hadn't the faintest.

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"Out?" Danny repeated, somewhat belatedly so. Following the gaze of the others at last, she spotted the shadow things.

Oh, great. Again with the screaming....

So that's where she was...

Nicolai had been lost in his ponderings, wondering over specific locations and people that might have been involved, only coming up with vague ideas and unwanted memories that had little to nothing to do with what was really going on. Wiko had discovered his ear, however, and a harder than usual nibble at it snapped him out of his thoughts in time to catch the Drow child beating in the cupboard door.

And that's where Kay was. Amused. Very.

Nicolai knew Kay, unlike the rest of the people in the headquarters, so he thought it better to assist... however that was possible. He approached the cupboard slowly.

"Get stuck looking for candy, Kay?" he called past Zasalamel, voice coying and outright snide. Hey, she dropped him on his a** the moment they met. He had a right.

Trying to catch the crab with the floor lurching and shaking as it was made a rather difficult task for Aurrek. In the moments of darkness, the cold-blooded critter was all but invisible to the god's heatsight as well.

Just as he caught Nordri, though, Aurrek started to feel the energy draining out of him. He saw the color draining from the others, but his own hands were as white as they had ever been. The ordinarily-blue tips on the claws of crab he now held, though, had faded to a dark grey; after noticing this, Aurrek realized his hair and clothes had been drained of their usual navy hue.

Energy drain on an immortal was a strange feeling, and, while Aurrek did not quite feel like he was going to go to sleep there on the floor, it created a very uncomfortable nausea deep set in the pit of his stomach. He got some mirth, at least, from seeing the effect it had on Nordri - the crab who had been struggling in his hands a few moments before was now starting to go a little limp.

It at least allowed the god of hourglasses to hold him in one hand, so he could press his other one against the growing cramp-like pain in his abdomen.

"What on earth is going on?" he asked, his voice a little tight from the soreness as he felt the need to ask the obvious question. Where was his nice relaxing afternoon flopped in a sofa?

And then the lights went out again. "Oh, lovely...."