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Kyo wasted little time following after Danny, shutting the door to the garden quickly behind her. Where was Xerk? She wasn't so worried- she'd told him to go. Reaching out mentally, she could find him with the others. "There is more strength in numbers." She offered Danny, her hand drifting off of the woman's shoulders finally. "I will be watching out here in case any others are trapped outside. I suggest you join the group..." What if more were stuck outside? Just because she couldn't feel them didn't mean they weren't there... and she wanted to be able to lock the garden door if there were no more.

Xerksis grumbled as he was picked up by the Sidhe, as if demanding why she had taken so long to come and get him. Did he care that she was a stranger? No. He did wrinkle his nose a little at the pink (or what was left of it), though. He could see in the dark rather well with those pupiless eyes of his, probably wondering why everyone else was bumbling about. And now he was set on something. He ignored the food, irritated with being alone again. Seeing Aurrek nearby, the Illithid growled at him, reaching out. Me! Pick me up!

Nicolai relinquished Wiko to the young drow gladly, not at all apprehensive about this one. Giving a nod of appreciation he made his way back and toward where he was told the training area was.

"I'm... guessing we're being invaded," he stated aloud as if to catch the attention of the adults in the headquarters, mentally running over the situation carefully. "And I think it's probably not such a good idea to be so spread out. The further out, the worse this thing gets, right?"

He paused, though not really waiting for a response, and tried his best to mentally locate those present and those straggling. His eyes fell upon the ornate garden door and those just starting to flee the gardens.

That's where that tremor came from, he noted. Halfway through the thought he was headed in that direction.

"This way," he called to Danny and Kyo, waving an arm to beckon them away from it. "We need to stay away from the garden. Is anyone else in there?"

((We're ghosting Kishi, Kyocho and Oak out, so assume they're in the main room now. This is so we can progress with everything.))

Click.

Looking straight at Kyo, Danny didn't say a word as she reached out and locked the garden door. To her knowledge, there wasn't anyone left out there; and even if there was, a detached part of her was perfectly willing to leave them behind.

Her voice still rebelling against her, the woman saw no need to try and explain herself just now. With heavy feet dragging on the ground, Danny headed back into the main lobby. The aura of this greyness was starting to get to her... the guardian seemed tired and world-weary as she joined the rest of the group once more, pale and jumping at any small noise.

((Eep! I thought Neveah was already out. Uh, well.. we're ghosting out Ari for sure, and I'll leave it up to the player whether Neveah was out, or just got locked in the Garden. XD))

Ari had passed out. Nothing else explained the fact that she found herself waking to Artemis pulling on her hair. Which was probably only half of the cause of her headache.

It was dark. Ari couldn't even see her hand as it touched her face, rubbing away the dizzy feeling, the tireness, which seemed to grow stronger.

But she could see Artemis....

The child seemed to glow, just slightly as if light was comming from within her. No, not within her. Her wand. Art was holding it tightly with her other hand. It was the source of this light, but it wasn't giving off any. Trying to figure out what was causing her ability to see Art and not herself was making Ari get a headache.

She pushed herself up, hit her head on somthing only slightly above her head, felt around. She couldn't see a way out, and from what her hands were telling her, "Art stop that, mommy's hair should stay on her head," she muttered, groggy. From what her hands were telling her, they seemed to be trapped.

Art stopped pulling Ari's hair. Ari looked at her daughter and noticed that her eyes were even more empty now then before, as if she was a shell of herself.

Ari pulled Artemis close, and closed her eyes. So there were enough magical parents as well as children in this mess with her. From what she had seen most abilities and sensitivites grew extra powerful in times of great stress...

There was a pounding if from an outer door being banged on.

Maybe one of them could hear a thought?

Xerk....

"help!" she shouted mentally and verbally. The dirt she sat on felt as if it were moving, and Ari had no idea how trapped they were.

Great! Someone who does!

Nicolai turned to face her, still straggling toward the end of the hallway near the Garden. He wasn't sure if he was comfortable with the assumption that no one was left there, nor with the claim that there actually was, but he could do little for it. It would have been better to listen to the only one that might have an idea of what was going on.

Against his own advice he moved back, closer to the garden door. Part of his obnoxious conscience wanted to stand there and be the first on the front lines should the encroaching danger decide to break through. Sadly, this part always, always won. He stood with his back to the wall, glancing both directions cautiously, poised to bolt if need be.

Aurrek looked up at the girl who was not standing on some piece of furniture he could not quite see. Quite a courageous lady to get up like that and yell at everyone in the middle of all this chaos, he thought, rubbing his hands together self-consciously as he watched her.

Hopefully things were not too bad. Well, considering how bad they already looked, with things that seemed to be attacking the building and all.