"Shizuka..." soft moan made them all jump in surprise. "Shizuka, why is it so noisy?" Child stood up rubbing his eyes and then looking at them silentli, caught in bewilderment. "S-S-Shizuka, you idiot! We barely came here and you make a riot!? How will we enter in the guild now!?"
"Silent..." the person named Shizuka stood up, murmuring in her chin, looking indifferent at the outburst of her child. Master was shocked at such a daring child.
"Oy! How dare you call your mother like that?!" Arisa-cha, daughter of Sam was pointing her finger and stomping her foot in outrage. "Papa, that girl is so rude to her mother!"
"Mother? Shizuka is not my mother!" Child was looking surprised as the rest of them when she said that.
"Sleep..." Shizuka person swayed and then toppled on the floor like a log with low snoozing sound. Child went to her and started to nudge her, obviously mad.
"Shizuka, you can not go to sleep now! Explain them we are not mother and child! SHIZUKA!!!"
But Shizuka did't budge or wake.
Master looked arround the room to see guildmembers faces, and then to the frowning child that was sitting in front of him. He had the urge to sigh, but he ignored it. This was a serious matter, and he felt that he might loose patience very soon.
"We know you are Ame. But what business you have with this guild? And speak quickly, I do not have much patience." He said looking at child's defiant eyes.
"We are not that strange, Shizuka and I!" She sounded outraged for some reason. Hopping down from chair she shestomped her foot. "We are just trying to find us a new guild! Is that such a bad thing to do? If just that idiot, Shizuka, didn't start a riot just as she came in...!" She walked to Shizuka and kicked her with her foot on the thigh. "We are just trying to find someone who knows about one kind of magic...."
"Wait a minute..." Chai murmured. He was one of those rare new members that joined guild after the unfortunate event. "I think i heard of you two... You are those weard pair of mages that switch guilds everey few months or so, and always asking about some forbidden magic!"
"We do not talk about that stuff to outsiders! It is forbidden!" master said immediatley.
"But, granpa..." Ame turned to him with desperation in her eyes. "Please! If we don't find about it soon Shizuka will disappear like Lie! I can not stand her sometimes, but if she or some of the other two dissapears... She will be lost to us forever! If we do not wake her up somehow we will all disappear!"
"Ame!" Shizuka was suddendly awake and she grabbed Ame by hand and pulled her in her embrace, and with a move she forced her to sleep. "She talks too much." Shizuka stood up with child in her arms. "If you can not help us then there is no purpose in staying here... We will leave." She said it and put on the robe over the two of them. Little girl was sleeping soundly and unaffected by movements. "Time is not something we have to waste now."
"Wait!" Master stopped her, looking closely at her. She did look pale and worn out. "For how long are you in that state?"
"Long enough to know that i will be gone in few months." She answered getting irritated, what did not show on her face.
"If... If you swore on secrecy, I will help you." Master said and observed her carefully. She cast down her look on the child and looked at him again. There was a glint of releaf.
"That is why we change guilds so much. Evrey guild has a rule not to discover their secrets to anyone." She answered and nodded. "She will have to be safe here while i will do requested jobs. That is my only condition. Kuro and Shiro will most likely come soon."
"Tell me of the help you need now... Why do you look for forbidden magic?" Master asked.
"I don't know." She said blankly. "I do not remember anything except the other us that are fallen asleep beside that crystal... Ones who have answers on that are Ame, Kuro and Shiro."