Reaching out to grasp the wall as her knees nearly buckled, Aurora sucked in a breath and forced herself to take the precious seconds to move the whole length of the alley in the hopes they were hidden, not vanished by Apparition. It was a foolish hope, but she had to try. When it produced nothing, she ran back, calling for Aiden by first name, a thing she rarely used. "Aiden!" Finally spotting him, she gesture toward where she had just been. "Aiden! Someone saw a tall young man take a little girl into the alley, but it's a dead end, there's no one there anymore."
Apparition meant it would be impossible now to find Carina, and as much as Aurora wanted it to not be true, Carina had been abducted. She knew it and she knew Aiden knew it. Giving it no thought, she reached out to him, grasping his upper arms, for he looked unsteady, as though any moment he would simply drop to the ground as though the ground itself had been yanked from beneath his feet like a rug.
"We need to get an Auror here," she said, visibly struggling to remain calm, to force herself not to start in on self-recriminations, for it would help no one. "They can question witnesses, get an image of this man from the memories of the witnesses, examine the alley. Let's do that, the longer we wait, the further he can get."