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That's... horrific, Danny thought to herself, stealing a glance at the ashen-skinned Wiko even as the other Guardian was peeking over at Vana. Granted, she hadn't had too much exposure to all of the different ghost-children yet; of those she'd seen come to flesh, though, they'd all seemed so... pretty. Like strangely-crafted dolls, almost. It was largely thanks to such traits, in fact, that she had been able to come to terms with the thought that the child she was going to be raising wasn't quite human.

Danny didn't want to think herself so vain as to suggest she didn't like that there might be some of less aesthetically less pleasing appearences, of course- no more, no doubt, then she wanted to recognize the issues she had in general with the magical children. Still, she found herself suddenly very grateful at how pretty and vibrant a babe Vana had turned out to be.

Watching a very pretty little girl made a comment of wrinkle-nosed distaste, however, Danny was suddenly very aware of how unfair her own thoughts seemed to be. Forcing a small smile in Wiko's direction, as if to try and demonstrate no, nope, I wasn't thinking the same thing, not me, she bent her head down to gaze back on Vana, hoping to avoid a potentially uncomfortable situation if someone might catch her looking at the stranger babe.

A greeting brought her gaze back up, though.

"Oh... ah, hello!" Her smile was much more natural as she took in Kay's appearence. Was this even a ghost-child? She looked so... normal!

Perhaps too intuit to her Guardian's thoughts, Vana's face crossed with a puzzled, unhappy look. Tilting her head over to get a look at the object of Danny's attention, the little forest child blinked her heavy lashes gently, before beginning a polite inquiry of a chirp to the girl there.

Savius had had his arms full of booze. Two beers for Lithle, one for himself, and he was already wondering if he should have grabbed some of the harder stuff he'd seen waiting in the fridge. Magical booze fridge. Awesome. They needed one of those at home. As it happened, he was leaving the general kitchen area at the same time as Nicolai and the gray child, so he got an eyeful of the both of them.

"Awesome! A zombie zombie brat." He announced, moving closer to get a better look at the child. The winged teen didn't have much of a sense of personal space, so it didn't occur to him that he might be crowding the two of them. "What's he called? You wanna meet my little bro, little bro?" He wiggled his fingers in front of the child. "He's a gryphon, and you should be safe, since you aren't sparkling."

A slight smile was given to the guardian as well. "Beer?"

Kyo watched the hawk almost absently, not seeming at all worried that the avian could easily dive from her shoulder and peck out one of her toddler's eyes. "Yes, the back. That woman there has... the right idea." Perhaps Shira would touch the knob and then the falconer would see. "Go... ahead."

By her side, Xerksis merely grumbled then turned his attention back, staring intently at the bird. "Do you know what that is... Xerksis?"

"Mmmr... Buh.. broo... bird." The boy managed, scrunching his features slightly as if he'd just been forced to suck on a lemon. He wasn't pleased at all that he was incapable of the mouth-words while his mind shot miles ahead. When the door suddenly pulled open near him with a flurry, he had no problem making a rather inhuman screech. What was that?! Tucked behind Kyo's leg, Xerksis peered out at the mousy woman, taking her in. Maybe if he hadn't been so surprised, he would have laughed. Now he only stared.

"Oh..." Kyo stated softly, a bit late on her reaction as she slowly turned towards the newcomer. Dark eyes flitted over the woman before, much to Xerk's protest, she drifted closer, dismissing the falconer to her own devices at the moment. Bending into a crouch, the English teacher reached out and picked up one of the tomes, only frowning slightly when one heavy silver shackle smacked lightly upon its cover. "There's no need... for apologies. Are you alright?" Another hand reached out, swiftly pressing a book that had began to levitate back onto the floor before picking it up herself. Behind her, Xerksis huffed- he'd only been helping!

Huh? But... but Danny hadn't said... she'd just thought it, hadn't she? She wouldn't ever say anything like that! Honestly and truly, she'd gone through too much with Vana to act like that!

But she must have said it aloud, or else she wouldn't be getting a tongue-lashing from the little girl. Visibly flinching- Danny wasn't good at this sort of confrontation, no matter the vessel for it- the college girl allowed herself to be scolded as she scrambled to try and find the right words to excuse herself--

Then the lights went out.

".... any of them!" Mimicked Vana expertly, eyes peering around the darkness as she wondered how a few words had managed to make the light go away.

Dixie hurried down the block, her long-furred tail doing its part in keeping chipper holiday shoppers a suitable distance away. Alek half sat/half lay over his mother's shoulder. Every once and a while, he would let out a shrill barking scream and tap Dixie on the upper part of her back. It was that time again.

"ommmmmm AAAAAAA!"

Every other application of this behavior had earned Alek a "quit it" but little else. This time, however, Dixie stopped in her tracks and pulled the baby's legs so that he was sitting properly in her arms.

"What?!?" she asked.

Alek, unfazed, tugged off his tiny, knitted hat and flung it to the ground.

"AAAAAAAA!" The stupid thing made his extraordinarily itchy head itch more. He wanted none of it.

"Fine." Dixie left the hat on the pavement and was about to continue walking when she looked up. This was the very hellhole she had picked the Tailed Terror up from in the first place. Maybe they would take him back. There appeared to be some sort of party going on, so even if they wouldn't, at least there would be free food.

She pushed inside and nodded to a few people gathered around the door before making her way into... an obscenely large hoarde of people crammed into a room that was tiny by comparison. And then there were no lights. Great.

Well, this was... unpleasant.

Listening to the wailing and scuffle and all-around hysteria that seemed to be starting up, Danny took a stronger grip on Vana and got to her feet, not about to be caught sitting among panicked company. "It's just the lights, people, come on!" The irritated growl almost caught her off-guard, but it most certainly expressed her sentiments. A little darkness wasn't worth all the hub-bub, and if Vana started getting upset because of all the noise, Danny was going to be distinctly displeased.

Groping blindly in the shadows, shuffling her way over to where she thought the light switch might be (since no doubt someone had just turned them off), Danny managed instead to find the shoulder of the little girl that had snapped out at her. Giving the shoulder a quick and reassuring pat- who was this girl's guardian, exactly, and would she be able to find them in the darkness?- she simply continued on in her search.

Coailiann wasn't phased much by the dark, thankfully, but she did flinch away when Danny touched her shoulder. It wasn't that she minded being touched, but she had called her NORMAL. What was that woman looking for?

"I'll go turn the lights on," She grumbled, hoping it wasn't her powers that turned them off. She didn't know how to fix it if it was. The sidhe made her way, stumbling over several things quite painfully and bumping her head on the counter before she found the switch she was looking for.

Kay supposed actually living there and knowing where things are was a very good thing. Her hand clicked the switch a few times but nothing happened and Kay scowled.

"Power's out!"