I is . . . Alone! *Cries*

[Aya]

Aya couldn't find anyone. She couldn't find her Mummy and Daddy. She couldn't find A Mummy and Daddy at all. Everone here was big but no that big. Finally she found a open door and went inside. She was tired and hungry. She had never been so long without somone to love her.

In this room she found beds and side tables, but she couldn't reach the beds to lay down. They were a bit too big.
She sat down on the floor and begain to howl.
"I . . WANT . . . MY . . . . MUMMY!" she cried "I . . WANT . . . MY . . . . DADDY! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA . . . "

(OOC: the post is short because Aya is only two. I'd like to see you write a long post for a two year old! Their thoughts are very simple.)

[Shae]

((ooc: I'm on holiday, but I'll answer))

When the ghost heard the howling - howling she knew belonged to a human child - she stuck her head through the wall to see what was happening.

Spotting the child, she dashed over at once and knelt down before the child.

"I'm sorry little one, I think you have come to the wrong place to find your mummy and daddy," she said. Yes, this was definately the wrong place.

"Here we take care of people who have had a bad day, and need someone to help them so that the next day isn't as bad. They have all had a bad day for dfferent reasons, but most of them all have in common the need for peace and quiet," the purple-haired phantom tried to explain to the child, beseaching of her to stop screaming.

"I'll help you find your parents, if you like," the phantom offered. "What's your name?"

[Aya]

"M-m-ma-ma!" cried Aya much softer now. Gee she didn't want to make the people who had a bad day have a worser day!
"I . . i-i-is Aya. " she sniffed sadly "I i-i-is Aya k-Krushiev. My Daddy's gone!" again she was over come by sadness and begain to cry harder, but less loud this time.

[Ashlle G. Rainier]

Ashlle Rainier was just coming back from Lunch when she heard a familiar sort of crying coming from the Hospital Wing.
That's a small child's cry she thought, knowing she personally knew only one small child. Breaking into a run she rushed the last few feet into the Hospital Wing.

"What's going on here?" she asked angrily, but upon finding no giant Lycan, nor hungry Vampire or evil of any sort she quickly calmed down and came over to where she saw Shae floating close to the floor.
"What's happened?" she asked in a softer voice, automatically taking the child in her arms, and comforting her by rubbing her back.

In Ashlle's second orphanage often the smaller children would cry and no one would hold them, only attended to their most dire needs such as feeding and changing. It was left up to the older girls to tend to their need for touch and one of them had taken Ashlle under her wing early on. Even thought she was barley six Ashlle had learned how to comfort a baby rather quickly. Upon leaving at eight she was morned by all the two to three year olds she had helped as infants.

Ashlle herself hadn't really cared overly much for them, but this was Kezaa's child and Kezaa had been her teacher before he'd left MH.
"How in the heck does one forget their child." thought Ashlle aloud to no one inparticular as she rocked Aya.

[Shae]

The ghost watched slightly longingly as Ashlle picked up Aya. She would have done that herself in this position, if she could have.

"In a big place like this, Ashlle, it is surprisingly easy to lose someone so small," said one nurse to another. "And it's not fun to loose someone as important as that," she added, almost to herself.

"My name is Shae Tell, Aya, and I'm a friend of your father's, so if you like I will help you to find them. I imagine they are missing you terribly," phantomess said to the child in Ashlle's arms, smiling her sad little smile.

"Come on, we can find them together," she offered.

[Aya]

"Mummy . . . And Daddy?" asked Aya smileing slightly. It was good to be in Nurse Lady's arms and Chilly Lady was also being very kind to her though she wouldn't come to near. Maybe she was afraid of Aya?

Aya then remembered something Mummy always told her to say when someone was offering to help her.
"Thank you, Chilly Lady" she said. Then she yawned.
"I's 'berry sleepy." she said "Can I's sleep now?"

[Ashlle G. Rainier]

Ashlle was confused, not by Aya's wish to sleep but by Shae's assurance that Kezaa was still in the school.
"I thought that he and Jesika had retired?" she said curiously.
"I'd heard they left MH. Now I'll agree with you that it's easy to lose a baby in this castle, but to leave a baby in this castle then go away? I find that very hard to take in."

Ashlle continued to gently rock Aya while she was discussing the matter with Shae. She soon had to sit down on the bed, it was no simple matter to get a baby to sleep and Aya was at least two judging by her weight.

"Don't worry Aya-mya, Shae and I will find your parents. And yes -for now- you can sleep here."

Ashlee then sung a Irish lullaby to the two-year-old. It was soft and melodious and even with a Child in her arms Ashlle did the song justice.

I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls with vassals and serfs at my side,
and of all who assembled within those walls that I was the hope and the pride.
I had riches all too great to count and a high ancestral name.
But I also dreamt which pleased me most that you loved me still the same,
that you loved me you loved me still the same,
that you loved me you loved me still the same.

I dreamt that suitors sought my hand, that knights upon bended knee
and with vows no maidens heart could withstand, they pledged their faith to me.
And I dreamt that one of that noble host came forth my hand to claim.
But I also dreamt which charmed me most that you loved me still the same
that you loved me you loved me still the same,
that you loved me you loved me still the same.

[Sen]

Sen had been walking for a source of crying but it had stopped and then minutes later she had heard a song that made the brunette sleepy.
The song came to a end and Sen's eyes where half opened but when the song ended she rubbed her eye and yawned and passed by a open hospital wing door to find a ghost and a second year temp nurse Ashlle and a younger girl in the bed.

"Sorry if I'm interrupting."She said after the Shea stopped speaking.
"She is missing her parents?"she asked opening her eyes fully now.
"I could offer my help in finding the girls parents if you like."she said walking through the open hospital wing door.

Sen's short brown hair was tied back and her eyes wondered the room everything was the same as every time she was here before.
She adjusted her glasses which did not suite her at all for her face had three scars making her stick out from the crowd and the glasses made her look silly.

[Shae]

The ghost was surprised by the name Aya gave her; "Chilly Lady"?, then raised an eyebrow at Ashlle's comment.

"They're not old enough to retire yet, then again, I haven't really been anywhere to know what's going on. But they wouldn't have left without Aya, unless..."

No! She wasn't going to finish that thought, she simply refused.

"The least I can do is take this little one up to the room in Ravenclaw that I know Kez and Jes had. If there's no sign of them by tomorrow evening, I'll bring her back here. You can keep an eye on her, and sing her your beautiful lullabies while I keep looking," she said, sort-of planning the search.

Then she noticed Sen, and heard the offer she was making.

"Would you please check the Astronomy Tower, the Great Hall, and the Duelling Hall Sen? They might be in one of those places," she asked, a grateful smile on her face directed at the Gryffindoor girl.

But the thoughts going though her head included "Gryffindoors searching for Ravenclaws can't look everywhere."

[Ashlle G. Rainier]

"Hmmm," said Ashlle looking over at Sen then back to Shae, "That sounds like a good plan. What a were you planing to carry her in, if I might ask? It's a long way to float her up to the Ravenclaw Common Room. At least I asume it would be since the Common Rooms are so far apart."

Ashlle was uneasy about giveing Shae the little girl, not because she didn't trust the specter, but because she didn't think the school was all that safe as of yet. Still she couldn't acompany Shae, being a Gryffindor.
Whatever thought Ashlle I'm sure there'd be no one in the CommonRoom to harm her . . .

[Shae]

She listened carefully to all the sense that Ashlle was making, watching the child sleep.

"She got here on her own, so I assume she's up to walking, at least short distances. I can float her when she gets tired, but it's not really very draining."

There were also words she knew Ashlle wasn't saying, and she could guess what they were, since people had been carefully stepping around what they told her since she first arrived at the School for Witchcraft and Wizardry in Romania at the age of five.

"You don't need to worry about her in my care, Ashlle, I'm very good at taking care of people," she assured the girl.

Though she would sigh with relief if when she reached the Ravenclaw commonroom, Kez and Jess were there. Though she knew it was nearly never that easy to find someone in MH.

[Ashlle G. Rainier]

"Ah" said Ashlle blushing slightly. "It's not you or your abilities I'm wary of. I was just worried about the recent attacks. If some one or something were to corner you both in a hall . . ." Ashlle looked down at Aya. Kezaa would literally kill her if he knew Aya had wandered into her care, then gotten herself killed.

"Perhaps we aught to let her sleep here for a while." suggested the redhead. "If she sleeps though the night so much the better. In the morning she will have more energy to follow you to the Ravenclaw Common Room."
Ashlle now gently placed Aya down on the bed and covered her partly with the covers.

"Poor little sleepyhead" she didn't realize she was saying it aloud. "Sleep is a big woolly sheepdog. He'll watch over you in the night. Sleep well Little Dreamer."

[Aya]

Aya yawned arnd rolled over on her side. She was warn out from all the wandering she'd done and had fallen fast asleep when Nurse Lady sang to her. Now she wandered into the land of sleep, a large woolly sheepdog at her side.

"I is *yawn* Aya" she told him.
"I'm Sleep" said the dog "and this is the Land of Dreams. You can stay here with me for a while, if you want."
Aya smiled sleepily, and hugged the doggie. Sleep was very soft and fluffy like a cloud.

[Sen]

Sen listened to them talk for a while but kept her blue eyes on the girl as she fell asleep she looked to Ashlle.
"Is there someone close to the couple i could ask for help?"She asked looking back down at the girl.
"She might now people here which she could tell us who and we ask them for information of there location."She said thinking of the poorly devised plan.
"So chill Lady,Nurse lady have any ideas?"she asked resisting to smile at her own words.
(ooc:I have lost my role playing ability for the time but the next one of my posts here will be better)

[Shae]

She nodded, Ashlle made sense.

"I'm not going to make her wake up now. I know there's a cot around here somewhere she can fit into."

But she rolled her eyes at Sen's comment on Aya's names for them.

"I don't know, Sen, and you're not going to wake her now and ask. Just... oh, just keep an eye out for them, will you?"

((ooc: sorry, it's half an hour until midnight for me right now, and I'm going after this post.))

The dead girl ran her fingers through her hair and looked back at the child. That such a small thing could cause so much worry. Her lips almost tugged into a smile at that thought. She had arrived at MH sixteen, and just over four feet tall - not to mention with eleven years experience in spell casting.