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Aludra growled softly under his breath, something that seemed only to be a habit that he carried around the stupid Lust / Patience child he'd taken with him to the mall that day. What, he couldn't help it; the 'boy's' father was irritating to no end and always got angry about the dresses that Aludra had been given Lir recently. What was he supposed to do? Lir wanted them, and no matter how much he loved his own possessions, he had no real need for them.

Grumbling softly, he pulled the leather jacket a bit more tightly around his torso, emerging from the changing stall with his tail lashing, shirt clenched tightly in a clawless fist. Tri-coloured eyes looked around for a moment, before catching Lironax not all that far away, standing in front of a mirror and holding up dresses that were still on the hanger against his body. Marching over, Aludra dropped the shirt to the ground for a moment and extended his arms in a very sarcastic gesture. "Is happy?"

"This way, 'Ryn," Litural called over his shoulder, glancing back at the little red-head who toddled along after him through the clothing racks.

"Lit?" came a confused little squeak, the girl pausing as she realized he was farther ahead of her than expected.

The older spawn sighed, rolling all three of his mismatched eyes, "I'm right here, Auryn...just walk forward."

He didn't understand how he got stuck in this situation, but there was nothing Litural could do about it now; Santana dropped them off, saying he'd be back in an hour or so, and that Auryn was to listen to Litural until then. Which wasn't such a hard task, Lit supposed...after all, Auryn was well behaved and didn't question anything he told her to do.

The hard part came about when he remembered 'Ryn couldn't see him...and he was still so very sensitive about being touched. He couldn't hold her hand like Santana did, so the pair had to rely purely on sound to keep together. And up until now, it had worked fine...but there was a lot around them now to distort his voice and confuse the poor girl.

"Li-it?" Auryn said again, sounding scared, her feet shuffling towards where she thought she heard voices.

At home, it wasn't so bad; 'Ryn had become really comfortable with the apartment and could find her way about easily. But this was different...this wasn't home, and Lit wouldn't hold her hand through the racks. So Auryn just kept going towards where she thought she'd heard his voice.

By the time Lit realized she wasn't walking in the right direction, 'Ryn had found the break in the clothes that opened up to the changing area where Lironax and Aludra where. She heard people talking, but neither of them sounded or felt like her "older brother".

"Lit'ral?" she questioned to no one and everyone, brows furrowed over her pale blind eyes in worry.

Much like he had expected, Lironax met a veritable wall of resistance when he tried to show Aludra his reflection. However, rather than snap at his friend for being so stubborn, he merely sighed and swept a piece of his bubblegum hair out of his face. He even chuckled lightly at the comment. "Yeah, I can see that, 'Ludra." Even as he did so, Lir was a little wary of the other; he didn't want to get randomly smacked for showing affection towards him. Aludra tended to not like that at all.

However, his attention was diverted by the appearance of a small girl, heralded by Aludra. Lironax turned around and stood beside Aludra, kneeling down to the little girl's level. "I think she is, Aludra. People don't normally let girls this small wander on their own." Not knowing she was blind, the boy smiled kindly. "Hi there, little lost girl. I'm Lir, and this is Aludra. Did you lose your family?"

Aludra pouted softly at Lironax's statement about how people didn't let toddlers wander out on their own. Yeah, but they got away sometimes; he was a prime example of such a phenomenon happening rather regularly. He stiffened slightly at the comment, but let it slip. The girl wasn't as bad as Lir and his stupid constant need to be way too close. Slowly, the Humility boy tipped his head to the side softly, peering at the girl with a steady interest, but it was those pale eyes of her's that caught his attention.

The wings on his ankles fluffed up a bit, and his tail waved either way, as he took the hand that she wasn't touching, he dragged it across what should have been her line of vision. No reaction. He blinked in surprise; he hadn't thought that his suspicion would be right, but he supposed having a little brother who was deaf and stuck at a school with sense-disabled children, he'd sort of gotten used to subtle difference between such things. He squatted down, now more the girl's height as he frowned softly.

"Is blind?" he asked bluntly. This was one of those times that he thought it might be really nice to be able to speak in first person, or at the very least, speak in complete sentences properly. Stupid mouth-words. Stupid Aludra.

"Lit'ral," Auryn said softly, her whole body slumping at the gentle words of the voice identified as Lir.

Her fingers curled around Aludra's wrist, not tight but firm in her simple need for support. She sniffled softly, her nose already starting to run by the time the tears swelled up into her sightless eyes. The whine from earlier came back with a vengeance, exiting her mouth in a piercing wail. She was crying, as all lost children did, her face turning a deeper shade of red than her hair and the whites of her eyes becoming as pink as the irises.

Litural heard it from across the store and nearly took down a display of jeans in his abrupt about face.

"Auryn!" he called out, following the sobs.

He came threw a rack of shirts, stopping dead in his tracks when he saw the girl standing with the two younger boys.

"'Ryn?" he said, breathless, with his main eyes looking at the girl and his third glaring death back and forth between Lir and Aludra.

"What're you doing to her?" he snapped, louder than he probably needed to.

Auryn's head whipped around at the familiar voice, and she yanked herself away from Aludra, crying all the way over to where Lit stood. Throwing her arms around his knees, she buried her face into his pant leg, sniffling and sobbing in incoherent bursts.

Litural's reaction was a heavy flinch at the contact from the girl, and his knuckles turned white from strain as he fought every urge to push her away and attack the two. He was positively bristling, each breath exhaled as a growl, and his internal war on the next course to take was apparent in every fiber of his body.

He really just wanted to push her off and eat the boys' faces...but that definitely wouldn't have been the smart thing to do.

There was no use denying it: Lironax was pretty much terrified by the appearance of Litural. Not only was he much bigger than either him or Aludra, but he looked extremely angry at both of them. His first instinct was, as it seemed to always have been, hide behind Aludra. His friend was much better at confrontation than him.

However, it seemed that Aludra's common sense had taken a short - and extremely ill-timed - vacation, for the Greed spawn took this opportunity to actually accuse Litural of abandoning Auryn. Lironax practically gaped at his friend; what on Earth was he thinking?! At this rate, Auyrn's scary guardian was going to make mincemeat out of both of them. Within a few seconds, the boy realized that it was he who was going to have to get things straightened out here. Taking in a deep breath, he patted Aludra's arm with his tentacle, muttering "Aludra, hush," under his breath. He probably would get some crap for taking control of the situation later, but at least they wouldn't be destroyed. He attempted to hide his trembling as he addressed the older Wrath child.

"Um, s-sorry, Litural, sir, but we- we really didn't do anything to her. She was just scared because she was lost, and she missed you." He squatted down to address the crying Auryn, although he wisely didn't get any closer to her. That would have been hard, anyway, as Aludra had his wrist in a death-grip. "We were just going to help her find you. Right, Auyrn?"

Words cannot convey how much he hoped that the little girl said yes.

The aforementioned death grip on Lironax's wrist only tightened further when the other stepped in front, Aludra's tail lashing back and forth, as though he was somehow under the impression that he would be able to take the definitely older male on, which was, literally, impossible. Some part of him seemed to know that, but at the same time, some part of him wanted to prove that he was better than what his Humility side always dictated; apparently, that wasn't going to happen. Which was a better idea in the long run.

As the older male stretched out his wings, bristling at the blame for Auryn's getting lost, Aludra growled softly, crouching down as though preparing to defend himself, nails raking over Lir's skin as he pulled his hand back, setting it to the floor along with the other, the green in his irises submitting to the red that normally surrounded it. He pulled himself back, tail lashing to either side, before he was stopped by a small voice that he wasn't yet accustomed to hearing.

"Scary..." was the word that emerged from the little girl, causing Aludra to blink in surprise, knocked out of his temporary stupor by the little girl's voice, slowly moving back to sit on his haunches, still crouched down, but no longer looking as though he was going to attack her brother. The wings on his ankles flapped a bit, and he reached out toward the girl, not moving at all, just offering what he could of comfort, though he was sure that he wasn't really that comforting a creature.

"Is 'kay, 'Ryn," he noted, voice quiet as he tried to keep from either attacking Litural or, perhaps, himself once again. But he wasn't going to do that, especially not in a crowded store in front of complete strangers. "See, is not scary now. Just before." The child glanced up toward the Wrath boy, the red receding to the edges of his irises once again. "Lit'ral is better, too. See?"

Litural wasn't the best at dealing with any emotion other than anger, and this new found protectiveness over the littler spawn was something that he was still very much getting used to. Crouching down, his winced visibly as Auryn backed off from him. Oh man, what had he done? She was going to be terrified of him now.

"Auryn...'Ryn, c-come on, kid...i-it's ok. Are y-you ok?" he stuttered, trying to calm his nerves down.

"Lit'ral angry," the girl meeped, looking to Aludra and Lir, sniffling. "Nice boys...find 'Ryn."

Litural didn't move to reach for her, but being down on the ground he was able to hear and observe the other boys a little better. He glanced at them, realizing with his anger slowly subsiding that they were just children a little older than Auryn was. Sighing, he looked back at Auryn, trying to get her to come back to him. "Everything's ok, 'Ryn...I'm not angry anymore."

Auryn sniffled one final time, feeling the still running emotions of everyone around her; indeed, Litural wasn't angry anymore...well, no more than he usually felt. The other boys were also calming down, especially the second one who just a moment before felt as upset as Lit had.

"Kay," she said, sounding a little more normal herself...though the smile was slow to form back on her face.

She had toddled back over to Lit when Lironax made the comment about Lit's wings. It made the older spawn do a bit of a double take...man, these guys rebounded just as quickly as Auryn did.

"Uh, thanks," Lit said, standing back up with Ryn by his side. "And...thanks, for finding Auryn..."