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Staying:

Naosu was certainly surprised by this stranger's appearance, as well as the fact that though they looked like a Grimm, they didn't seem as if they could be at the same time. A mutant? Ah, but that didn't matter. People lived here and children were missing!

"I'll help!" She said, slipping into first person because this was serious and Tomoe didn't need to be dealing with her eccentric speech patterns when there were missing children to find. "Do you know which direction they might have gone?" Youngish children might end up in the hollows of trees, she guessed. Unless they were a flying species. "This might seem a silly question, but do they have wings, or are they like you?"

Tomoe's ears flicked up as someone else spoke, head turning to lock their eyes on Aurora. For a second, they just stared, eyes widening with each second before their mouth tightened. Questions. So many questions. They were piling in his brain, reminding him that he failed. He had lost kids. Tiny children, and now this group knew and were judging him. He knew it. He knew it. He always messed up, and this one? This particular mistake? This was the worst one.

He had screwed up.

Tomoe opened his mouth, closing it sharply as a strangled sob almost escaped. No. Stop. Answer their questions. They needed information to right his wrong. To fix the problem he couldn't even fix.

"O-one is very monotone, t-the other i-i-" His voice faltered, hands raising up to rub at his eyes. "T-they're blues and pi-" They couldn't help it, hands flying up to cover their eyes as another sob escaped. They were alone in front of outsiders. They were alone.

Asking questions right now probably wouldn't be a good idea, as the strange man had broken into fresh sobs. They barely registered that Rei was approaching, one ear flicking as fingers spread to look at the approaching hybrid before flicking to look at Naosu, head shaking weakly to both questions. He didn't have the energy to verbally answer anymore.

He was a failure.

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Bridgette stared in shock at the man standing there before them. He looked like a fox! He was so cute. She frowned as he seemed so distressed and just wanted to give him a hug. She listened to his story and stared at him in shock. Oh no! Those students needed help! There was no way she wasn't helping them ok! "Tambre come on let's go find the students. They are lost and need help. She looked over at the fox male Tomoe. She listened to what he said and nodded her head. "I'll help you find them! Those students need to be found. Do you know places they like to hide or what they like to do?" They must be so scared lost out here. "Don't worry we just want to help find the students." She was determined to find them no matter what. She frowned as he seemed to be falling apart and having a break down. She looked around and took deep breaths to see if she could find any trail of their scent around here.

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Nadinia had a front row seat to the man hurrying through the gloom. Odd, so odd. She had no idea what he was. And this was Above! It was all rather off putting. Could an entire society exist behind the barrier? Nadi shook her head. It was all too much to consider.

He seemed so distressed. He had lost little ones, after all. "I will help you look. Perhaps that are just playing? Like hide and seek. And we just have to find them." She shot Tomoe a smile, and glanced at Claire.

"Is it safe for us to go alone and look for them, or should we be in groups. Oh, what are their names, so we can call for them?"

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Nashira wondered why Samhain's voice seemed to suddenly change, but she still appreciated the concern, and her ponderings past when he handed her another ice pack. "Thank you, Samhain." She said softly, shifting so she wouldn't drop the flashlight as she put the ice pack on the worst of her stings. And then suddenly, there was a new person. Whoa. Who... and what, were they? She listened silently as he explained frantically about losing children.

Looking back at her friends, and thinking how scared everyone had seemed to come on this trip (Or maybe that was just her) and how nervous they all were about being in this strange place, she couldn't even imagine how the children must feel.

And then the man burst into sobs, and she felt terrible for him. She shifted her gear for a moment and fished into her bag before finding a handkerchief. This was a great distraction from her fluster with hugging Samhain. Oh, there was that embarrassed feeling again. She swallowed thickly and walked up cautiously to the sobbing man before offering him the pink and orange embroidered cloth. "Here." She said softly. "I'll help you look for the children too."

Ahh, of course they were overwhelming him! She made placating motions at him, though she didn't touch him. "Okay, okay. Let's take a minute and breathe. We'll help you, it will be okay. Little kids are tricky sometimes. It's okay, it will be okay." It was natural to her to slip into more light-hearted language, to speak in the third person, to try and cheer Tomoe up, but that didn't seem like the right course of action.

She maneuvered her pack off and rummaged through for her canteen and poured a cup into the lid. "Here, it's just water. You can drink if you like. It might help?" She offered a small, encouraging smile.

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T'kani nearly lunged for Noelan once Claire had cut her free from Lillith, giving him a tight hug, which loosened after a few moments once she realized that he might not appreciate his spine being adjusted in such a way. It wasn't that she didn't like the dryad she was partnered with, merely that she was very happy to see that her puppy had made it through as well.

She was about to look for Naosu when the strange boy appeared, almost looking like an Imp/Grimm hybrid? A cutie either way. Listening attentively, she frowned a bit at the tale of these lost kids, ears drooping slightly. She raised her hands to sign him something, but with everyone else talking she decided against it. No need to pester the poor boy, and there wasn't anything new she could ask at the moment. Perhaps once things had calmed down she would be able to, but for now it was better to listen attentively.

Spying Naosu amidst the small gathering, she smiled and gestured to Noelan as she reunited their small group.