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"Well, we're... here, I think, place full of books. Library, bibliotheque, book store, what have you. And there's rooms all round. And some stairs. Except maybe not in that order." So much for being useful. Surely there was something helpful she could remember... Gray hummed to herself, glancing absentmindedly through one of the library windows.

"This must be in the South-East corner, look, you can see the sun's rising a bit from here. And there's food nearby," she added, sniffing. All right, so not that helpful, but still... "...Er, do we even have any ink? Or a pen?"

Poor Odnako, being poked at from every side. Even worse, if she scooted away from Sabriel, she couldn't keep an eye on Thylassa! Her ears swivelled and her puff of a tail flicked up, like a deer that's been startled and has turned to run. Chuffing again, she swiped clumsily at Sabriel's questing paw, trying to scoot herself away with her stronger back legs.

This one smelled funny too, how annoying of them all to smell weird and poke at her. Gray grimaced, seeing the deer child's lip tremble, expecting her to start wailing in a moment.

"The southeast?" Chin wouldn't know how to figure that out, and was relieved Gray knew. It was definitely a start. "You never know, since all the floors got shifted around, but yeah. There's probably three. Neat idea!"

She considered over the search for pens, unsure of whether there were some tucked away in Sabriel's stroller or not. Hm..."There might be some in the stroller." she offered up hesitantly.

Odnako's hoof clipped his paw on the way past. For a clumsy blow, it actually hurt; when Gullien stood up, Sabriel, shocked by the pain, lost his grip and fell headfirst into the unhappy deer baby.

Thylassa's day could turn out lucky after all!

Gullien peered down at the pile of brown and black, amused. Well, she'd expected this to happen. However, those hooves and those tails weren't exactly a good combination in a tangle. Someone was going to end up bloody. Quickly shooting an arm downward, she avoided the thrashing hooves to grab Sabriel by the ruff and haul him up and out. She probably wasn't supposed to carry him by the ruff though... meh. She stuck him under one arm for safekeeping. That would work. The deer-kid, she left there. She was not chancing those little blunt weapons and highly breakable legs. Odnako could sort herself out once she stopped panicking.

Thylassa squeaked as Sabriel tumbled nose over tails onto Odnako, who started crying and lashed at him. Not good! She was gonna set Sabriel on fire! Sabriel was gonna catch on fire, and then Gullien would catch on fire and then the whole ROOM would catch on fire and this day SUCKED!
WAAAAAAAAH!

Christ.

Gray managed to sort herself out with Chin's (slightly distracted) help, covering her own ears as she got close enough to see what had happened. Odnako on the floor, Sabriel in the air, all three of them wailing like banshees... typical fair as far as children were concerned. With a patient sigh, she scooped Odnako up from behind, making sure that she kept those hooves from pointing at her face or stomach. She was getting used to freaked out babies with cudgels for hands.

"Er, sorry." She smiled half-heartedly at Gullien, trying rather unsuccessfully to get Odnako to calm down.

Odnako thrashed valiantly in her caretaker's arms, still battling a furry fiend that was no longer there. Bad cat! His fault! And she was darn well gonna get him for that, one way or another.

Hovering by the stroller, Chinchillie watched Gray's calm performance with something like awe. She didn't have long to sit still; hearing the plea, she dodged around Odnako and her caretaker, going to pry Sabriel off of Gullien without hurting her more. This wasn't going to be easy.

And yet it was. One moment, the cat baby had been hysterical - the next, he'd fallen completely limp and still and silent, loosening his grip, and practically fell into her hands. She frowned down at him. "Sabriel?" That was...odd...he was okay as far as she could tell. He'd stopped. Just like that, for no reason. Weird.

Fleeing the scene, she only called back, "I'll get bandaids, okay?" hopefully over Thylassa's siren wailing. No need to freak out with two babies doing that already. At least, not aloud.

Gullien raised a brow as Sabriel all but fell of her arm. Not her problem at the minute though. Sighing, she thought for a moment and shoke her injured arm, sending droplets of blood across the expensive carpeting. Okay. Leaning down, she hooked one arm under Thylassa's armpits and lifting.

Thylassa's sobbing was interrupted by an arm wrapping around her middle. Gullien? Before she could see who it was, she was off the ground, in the air and screaming. No baby cries now, but pure unalterated fear as she thrashed against the arm holding her, feet kicking out at nothing, desperate to escape, desperate to be back on the ground.

Gullien winced at the screaming and the little legs kicking her frantically in the ribs. Why Thylassa had this particular hangup she had no idea, but it did not make things fun. Falling back, she dropped herself into the chair that Chin had been in when she entered. She carefully pulled the little body into her lap, pushing Thylassa's head and ear against her breast where her heartbeat was and rubbing the little Mishap's back with the other. She didn't stop crying, but the raw terror and screaming ceased and instead she just snuffled into Gullien's mesh, occasionally whacking at her chest with one small unhappy fist.
With Thylassa taken care of for now, Gullien did inventory. Thylassa: okay, Gullien: bleeding, but clotting quickly. Best not to get stuck to the leather. Chin: fled, Sabriel: unknown, Grey: clearly lost, Odnako: still fighting. Okay... not great, but no one was dead. Everyone wins this round.

Odnako's cries were slowly subsiding, even when Thylassa began screaming in earnest, which would usually have been enough to set her off again. Still, those little legs wouldn't stop moving, and finally Gray had to plop down on the ground just so she could let Odnako's hooves touch the floor. That seemed to help, although Odnako immediately began looking for Sabriel, expecting the nasty beast to be hiding in some corner, ready to pounce. Just the thought of his big yellow eyes got her fur up on end and her eyes tearing up.

"Gullien needs them most," she sing-songed, watching them both from the corners of her eyes. It had finally occurred to her that she should probably make sure that there wasn't anything actually wrong with Odnako, and so her eyes were busy scanning the brown bundle. Not that a band-aid would do any good over fur, but still... besides, she didn't see anything terribly serious. There was a little scrape on one elbow (Odnako began whimpering again when she brushed her fingers over it), but the few drops of blood she saw were obviously Gullien's.

"Think I could use one over here, too... er, if those'll go over fur, it's not too thick I think. Feathers, you know, much worse." Gray glanced between the two of them, not sure why she felt mildly responsible for the whole mess. So much for maps.