Welcome to Gaia! ::

Lirael looked to Emerald before she answered, he was her guide through everything.

I am Emerald, this is Lirael. We aren't staying, just passing. He had picked up on the tone and didn't like it to much. His hackles raised slightly and Lirael saw, blinking a little. Its ok. She smiled and looked up. "I am Lirael and this is Emerald." She watched, obviously shy, she felt slightly uneasy as Emerald had raised his hackles, he wasn't growling though which confused the young girl.

Slow paced steps echoed through the crisp autumn air as leather boots hit nearly frozen ground. The gusts of wind ruffled simple music sheets clasped in a girl's hand. The chill in the air dug at skin better protected than most. How the cold seeped so close to bone was a mystery to Echo as she trod towards the library.

-remind me where we are going again?-a voice dripping with sarcasm drawled wordlessly.

A rather disgruntled lizard was perched within the supposed warmth of the Forgotten's jacket, but advertisements and gaurantees for warmth fell into Silence's book of 'lies and deciet'. The Daemon shuddered at the bite of the wind, his bare skin unable to withstand 'harsh' cold such as this. Autumn and winter were solely bondage time with his special Sun-Lamp-Heater device, not times to sally forth on uneeded trips to the origin of the duo.

'The library'
-library?-
'correct'
-why? Why now...You woke me from a pleasent Faux-sunbath to traverse through anything but pleasent cold to where? The library. What do we need there?- The daemon tacked on in nothing near to companionable curiosity.

'I want to pick up sheet music...If they have any' The proud and strong air to Echo's voice dissapated upon being challenged by her sibling-of-sorts. Frosty fingers tempered with loose fabric about the handle of 'Zai', a well love worn violin named by Silence when Forgotten and Daemon were still caught in their youth.

Silence simple slipped his tongue over the curve of his optic in response. It was times like these where he would simply lose interest in the notorious cry babies thoughts and ideals. Not only did the heavy set insecurity of the girl eat away at his nerves, but the fact that a simple harsh tone may leave the child broken and in tears on the ground peeved him to no extent. Cuaght in his anger the Daemon rasped his tail against Echo's sensitive neck to prove an unspoken point.

"Ow!" The Forgotten exclaimed in fright, fear, and pain, "That was not needed, Silence."

Yes, that most definately left a waver in the girl's voice. Yet Echo choked back threatening tears and uneeded drama upon sighting a rather peculiar group gathering not a yard from her current position. She caught her breath in her throat, making a small sound which resonated through the chill in the air. A few steps back put the duo behind a flourishing shrubbery, a makeshift hiding spot until the group left the area. Gods how Echo hated crowds. Silence simply glowered from his sheltered perch at the mouse like actions of his Forgotten companion.

"Sure!" Mana bounded over to the newcomer followed by a mutteringly angry white unicorn.

The girl paused a moment to curtsey (Emily had told her before that curtseying sometimes made people who were scared more comfortable. Something about formality and respecting distances and whatnot) before the new girl,
"Hello! I"m Mana! Come play with us. We are going to have a game of Hide 'n Seek."

And please just do it, she'll keep harping at you until you do anyhow, Harm was feeling less and less excited about this whole prospect. Iqbal seemed to be leaning towards going -in- the house to play this game, and the stars knew what would happen then. The house was -insane-, afterall.

Echo watched the girl approach, her senses buzzing with realization that she had indeed been spotted. The Forgotten cowerd, her fist wrapped tightly around the worn handle of her violin case. The sheet music quivering in her quake. Bright hazel eyes flit from left to right in worry.

-Settle down, Echo.- Silence's voice hissed in her mind. Caught up within herself, the Forgotten almost missed the girl's introduction.

"M-m..Mana?" Echo squeaked out, unable to ignore Silence's pathetic head-hang gesture. Quivering in her boots, quite literally mind you, Echo tried to calm herself, "I'm..Echo" The girl forced out. Her pulse slowing immensely in light of exchanging names.

"Hide and Seek?" So much for calm demeanor. Echo's eyes widened in fear. She had been to the house before, and that was no place to play in. They could get hurt, lost or even killed? Well, maybe not to that extreem. But to face the truth, the building did not bode well in her mind.

-Don't back down on this one, crybaby.-
'Stop insulting me!' Echo's voice rang back as she held back the urge to run from the scene.

"I'd very much like to join," Echo said, voice quivering in attempts to be strong, "But I'm on an errand...of sorts."

-Echo, we'd better go on this game playing business- A Lizardous voice muttered, -The Horned Horsey said something about harps- Silence shuddered at the memory of entangled limbs while Echo attempted to play the harp. He was sure that his hearing recepters were still damaged from that time.

"I'm So-" Echo's attention was grabbed by the feeling of Silence slithering out from her coat and into the chilled air. He landed on the ground and began to scurry towards the house, "Silence!"

-It sounds like fun and I would like to join, please thanks!-

And there at the distance Silence maintained a wave of nausea poured over both of them. Echo lurched forward to rid herself of the feeling and found herself pulled towards the house. Small tears leaked as she was led to the house against her will.

Sharp eyes scanned the grass for Silence's bright orange skin, yet when she picked the lizard up, she noted a pale tone of the scally skin.

"Don't do that again, it's too cold." She muttered, placing Silence back within her coat. It looked like she had found herself involved in this mishap meeting afterall.

((Grazie, Ana! ^^ I'm sure Tia will be fine with it. <3))

Mana giggled at the other girl as the two entered the building,
"This'll be fun!" she assured her, and her daemon. She blinked in curiousity as she spotted the surroundings.

She clapped her hands together in delight,
"Ooh! Look at all these beautiful toys!" she shouted, hopping a bit and turning to Harmony as though asking his permission to go ahead and play with them until Iqbal got back.

The unicorn looked distinctly nonplussed. At least, as much so as his equine features could manage.

Mana, I don't like the looks of this he said softly, though he knew she would be unlikely to listen Something seems dodgy. And I don't just mean our companions. Having so many people about was starting to make him even more grouchy than usual. This whole hide-and-seek thing seemed like a worse idea by the moment.

Mana ignored him, as she tended to do, and instead went over to the nearest pile...only to see that the doll she'd been eyeing had...well, no hair...though it looked like it once had.

"Oh!" she pulled back in surprise, "I wonder....?"

Lirael had followed the others in and yes she had been amazed at all the toys had stayed close to Emerald, she seemed to be a puppet to him sometimes.

Emerald was watching the others and he felt himself tensing up, something he knew would probably worry Lirael. There wasn't much need for that, listening to what the others were saying had got Lirael curled up on the floor next to the dog like daemon.

"I dont want to die.. not like this..." She had suddenly closed her eyes, her thumb in her mouth as she seemed to chew on it.

Oh stop it Lirael and get up, come on. I am sure we can work together and get out of here. He growled slightly at Lirael and turned to the two he didn't know, nudging Liraels hand.

"I am Lirael and this is Emerald.." She shuddered a little as she spoke but Emeralds push meant she had say it. "He.. he thinks we should work out a way out.. together.."

((I'm back everyone from the painstakingly long trip to Pennsylvania without internet. I'd like to thank Aki for keeping you all entertained while I was away. So, we're going to have to pick up the pace a little and dive right into the plot, which is where the fun begins. <3 Sorry to any inconvenience this may have caused you, and now back on schedule!))

"Think we've... left them in there long enough?" Iqbal's coy smirk played on his face while his head turned to his daemon who looked completely un-amused.

"What? I just thought I'd give them a little fun..." The wolf-boy murmured while trying to avert the golden gaze of his gryphon.

Fortune though nipped hard at his ankles which set off a faint growl in his throat. True, they didn't get along sometimes, but he was sure that the gryphon wasn't going to mind so much with the companions he'd picked up. Especially because they were girls.

'Just get them out so we can move to a room where they won't be spooked. Even if you don't have a particular space in your heart for females in general, you shouldn't treat them so badly.'

The gryphon's words were true, as she prodded the teenager forward with her head.

Iqbal gave her an immediate roll of the eyes as he walked to the playroom door. "Alright, everyone, sorry it took so long, I've found the best place for our game. Just follow me and we'll be having fun in no time." A somewhat comforting smile was given to the three forgotten and their daemons as Fortune watched Iqbal carefully. She couldn't control him or influence him as she used to when he was younger, and she hoped that the game wouldn't turn out to be something similar or relating to a land of snow.