Manta Carlos's Little Snowy Helpers

Aria nodded at Krish and let the matter drop, more or less solved for the time being. And he was doing just what they'd agreed upon too, letting her do the talking while he handed over care packages.

When a somewhat frazzled looking woman cracked open the door after yelling for whomever else was there to be quiet Aria put a nice customer service smile on and greeted her. "Good day ma'am, we're going around checking to make sure everyone has what they need during this storm," she started and then took a step back so the care packages Krish was hefting could be seen. "It sounds like you've got your hands full, maybe a few supplies will ease your nerves a little?"

The woman laughed dryly, "about time. Snow's too deep to go out to the store and i'm stuck here by myself with my three kids. I swear cabin fever'll be the end of me if this keeps up." But she did reach forward for Krish to hand over the supplies.

Meanwhile two kids popped out from around her to practically bounce out onto the porch, looking disheveled like they had been running around the house all morning. A boy, maybe around 6ish looked up shyly at Aria and her glowing halo while his sister, looking about 10 or so had her arms crossed and looking up at Krish.

While the staring contest began next to her, Aria knelt down to greet the younger child. "Hello there, i'm Cadet Vaughan," she started softly. Trying not to scare him off at all. "I think I have something for you if you promise to be good for your mom. But only if you give me a pinky promise, ok?."

The child seemed to be taking a while but then nodded. "His name is Charlie," the mother interjected helpfully. At the nod Aria gave another smile and pulled a sheet of stickers out of her pocket. "Alright Mr. Charlie, you can have any one of these dinosaur stickers if you pinky promise you'll be good," Aria explained in a very friendly tone as he offered her pinky.

Charlie looked over the sheet extensively before eventually putting out his pinky for the promise and pointing to, of course, the T-Rex sticker. With a quick "good choice," Aria placed the sticker in the boys hand and ushered him back into the open doorway. It was far too cold for the children to be outside without winter coats and boots.

After that Aria looked back over to check on how Liron was doing. "Ms. Anderson, how are you faring over there?" she asked, noting that the woman was peering under the porch.

Aria prioritized finishing up with the children before going to see if Liron needed help with the scared dog. She looked over to see Krish... trying to interact with her, maybe? The two of them weren't really having a conversation at all but Krish had realized that the child might feel left out without getting a sticker too.

She smiled and shifted over to kneel in front of the girl. "Is that true, do you want a sticker too?" she asked very kindly and glanced towards the mother to make sure it was ok. The woman nodded and reveled her daughter's name was Gabby.

Gabby kept her arms folded as she looked up at Krish, looked at Aria and then looked back one more time at Krish before nodding. Aria chuckled and offered the same deal for a dinosaur sticker. With a very reluctant pinky promise the little girl selected a large pterodactyl sticker. Which she promptly stuck to Krish's clothes and sprinted off inside the house. An action quite confusing and unexpected for those unfamiliar with the weird ideas children came up with.

Aria was smiling and laughing as she bed the woman a god day and returned to Liron to check out the porch hidey hole. Puddles had not come out of the hole yet so Aria offered a few pieces of food to Liron, deciding to let her keep trying to coax the dog out since she'd spotted him. "This should help. I know you're going to make that woman very happy when you rescue Puddles for her," Aria encouraged Liron as she hung out next to the woman in case she needed help.