When Aiden smacked into her, Aurora grasped at him instinctively to keep from hitting the glass window of the shop's display. Smiling and murmuring she was all right, she let Aiden give the clumsy young woman directions as she gave the book one last intent look over then checked for Carina as she had been doing all day. Those few moments she spent looking at the book, instead of for Carina first, would be the ones to haunt Aurora later. This time, she did not easily spot the girl. Certain blonde hair would be visible in a moment when that woman moved aide, she waited a stepped forward a few steps. No, then certainly once that couple moved out of direct view. No. It was then that Aurora felt her heart stop. She turned to Aiden, just as he turned back to her.
"But you told her to stay outside unless we went in with her," she said, concerned and fearful as she followed quickly after Aiden. Though Carina was willful and energetic, she was also relatively obedient and if Aiden had told her to stay outside and within eyesight and easy reach, she would not have done otherwise. No, she would have come back and pulled them to a shop if she had wanted to go in.
"Carina? Carina?" she called over the noise of the crowd. She drew some stares but ignored them "Carina? Carina Sarcelles, come here please!" Someone called 'miss' and she looked to the side, gaze landing on a plump woman who approached them.
"Are you looking for a little blonde girl who speaks French? She did say her name was Carina. She was right there in front of the menagerie a few moments ago, when I walked away she was speaking with a young man about Kneazles in another shop, I think? My French isn't that good. Such a friendly child, though I didn't realize there was another menagerie in Diagon Alley, so I'm likely mistaken-"