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Bebe listened to Claire attentively, torn between enthusiasm for a chance to prove herself and despair for the poor lost children. As soon as the guide explained that they were allowed to go searching for them, Bebe bounded off into the forest with her lamp, too eager to find the kids to even form a group with her friends. "Where are you guys?" she spoked aloud, but was careful not to shout too loudly; now that she'd explored a bit deeper into the forest, she was aware of all the spooky stories about it, and wasn't sure if she should attract too much attention to herself. Biting her lip nervously, she looked back to make sure she could still see the comforting red glow, trying to avoid panic sweeping over her.

Samhain was out on a mission. He was going to find that kid. It was getting somewhat personal. So much so that to say it wasn’t Samhain anymore would be accurate. The second that Samhain had dodged the rocks Salem had decided enough was enough. Besides he was a good headmate and he did care about Samhain’s health. So his other side could rest for a while. Besides after the spiky things in the road that he had to walk around and then the rocks even he had an investment in finding the kid. He was so focused that he walked right past Callixtus and Bebe, obviously being quite focused in finding this kid. It was only at Samhain suddenly yelling in his head that he turned to look at them. Ah that was right, Samhain had been worried about Callixtus earlier and he had waned to introduce Harley to Bebe in the hopes she would get more confidence. Salem supposed he could check on his pack to make sure they were okay.

So he reluctantly back tracked, waiting for Bebe to stop what ever she was doing. Ah illusion casting. It was a good idea.

Bebe walked forward hesitantly, floating the 'eyes' in front of her. To her great relief, they didn't go out from the movement. "Thanks Cal, I know it isn't much but I-" she stopped mid-sentence as she saw Samhain walk past. "Sammy? Sammy!" she shouted joyously, her illusion disappearing as she rushed to her friend in excitement. "I can't believe I've found you both! How lucky!" Realising her illusion had disappeared, she focused on making them reappear again, this time emitting an eerie red glow. "I don't know, Cal, I think taking a photo of them might end up useful... Maybe we can flush 'em out and startle them with a flash," she suggested conspiratorially, floating the illusion in front of them; those 'eyes' would make her run away for sure, hopefully straight into their awaiting arms.

Bebe looked at Samhain curiously. He was acting... odd, and the bakeneko was good at picking up on stuff like that. She scrunched up her nose for a moment, thinking about what it was. She put it down to being exhausted from the trip and settled for smiling happily at him. "I'm sorry they've been bothering you, but it's great to know you've seen them! That means they're safe... well, alive, in any case," she finished half-heartedly. She felt a little disappointed when he said her illusion wasn't good enough, and she wondered how she could make it better. "I'm... I'm sorry, Sammy, but this is the best I can do," she said with slight imploring in her voice, hoping for affirmation, "I'm only a junior, after all, I haven't even been able to take illusion classes." The red orbs flickered, as if reflecting the disappointment she had in herself.

Salem inwardly winced at his choice of words and ignored how unhappy Samhain was at him for upsetting Bebe. He hadn’t quiet meant that, although normally he wouldn’t really care but… ugh people where such hard work. “Ah sorry for my poor wording. It’s just been one of those days. To use an illusion was a really good idea; I don’t think anyone else thought to use one. I don’t know much about the other kid, but at least the grey one is a bit of a prankster and is really slippery when you try to catch them. I guess what I meant to say was the illusion is a pretty good start and I was thinking like a senior. It’s really impressive; you should look into maybe taking an illusion class as a senior. I guess what I meant by adding more interesting elements, was not to change the illusion at all, but maybe Callixtus and I could make rustling sounds or something to go along with the eyes.”

Hopefully that got what he meant out clearer, he was pretty bad at reassuring people, it was more Samhain’s job after all. "Ah sorry I should have been around to check earlier. Bad job as the groups healer right?" He leaned down to pull out the necessary items from his pack.