Today was the full moon and Mayla was sad that she had to leave before naptime due to worry of whether, Moon would make her transform or not. Mayla and her grandparents didn't want that to happen. She was still four years from being able to take the medicine to help with the full moon. So here she was sitting in the naptime cave, in a little pain and wanting to play, but worried she may accidently hurt and in turn, infect the other kids. She didn't want to do that. She never wanted to force this kind of pain on someone else. Especially since so many of the kids here were so young. It would take them even longer till they were able to take the medicine. Mayla sniffled. Harriette and Emelia came in to check on her, one sitting on either side of her. Emelia rubbed her hand over her back while Harriette put a soothing hand on her head. Mayla leaned into Harriette's touch. It felt nice, like a warm hot bath after a turn.
"You're a little warm," Harriette said, rubbing circles in between her eyebrows.
"It's the full moon," Mayla said with a whine coming out as they said moon. Harriette wrapped her arm around her and hugged Mayla against her. Mayla was surprised she didn't feel her Sun and Moon plushies. Peaking out she saw them set aside. Emelia leaning into her other side, still rubbing circles into her back. It was nice.
"I don't want to hurt anyone. Can make you both really sick like me," Mayla said, trying to worn them, about what she was.
"You won't," Harriette said, matter of factly, and something warm and calm washed over Mayla. All the muscle that had been wound tight over her bones, almost tight enough to break, relaxed. The smell of chamomile and lavender filled the area as Emelia pulled out a little round tub with a crescent moon on it. Mayla whined as it was too strong for her overly sensitive nose right now, so she buried her face in her knees.
"Moon said we could use this since you're not feeling well," Emelia said softly. Her tone is gentle. "It's for kids who have trouble sleeping, but Moon said it might make you feel better." Emelia looked over to Mayla. "Is it too strong?" Mayla nodded. "Sorry." She closed the tub, and went over to the blanket Mayla had hung up to hide behind and fanned the air out, the scent hadn't been very strong to begin with just too much for Mayla, so it didn't take long for the rest of the daycares' smells to over power it. That was almost too much too, until Harriette started rubbing circles over her nose again then Mayla could barely smell anything. Emelia settled down next to her again.
Fred and Goerg hadn't seen Mayla all day and were worried about her. So they set off on a quest to find her and see what was wrong. They looked over the coloring tables, the ball pit, and even the play structures. Yet there was no sign of her. They looked around and found Granny Nova, and Grand-paw Bram, so she had to be here. But where was she?
When they found her, she was almost asleep between Harriet and Emelia. Emelia was already dosing against her side, while Harriette sat supporting the two.
"Do you two need a break, we can watch her?" They asked, looking at how the three of them were sitting. Harriette shook her head, while Emelia sat up blearily before nodding. Fred took over Emelia's spot as the girl headed out to the daycare proper. George settled down next to Harriette, helping the tiny girl support the older larger girl's weight. Mayla quickly went back to her trance-like state, dosing in and out. Probably from the pain. Harriette rubbing little circles here or there on the older girl's head or back.
"Sorry you have to go through this every month," Fred said, running his hand through Mayla's hair, as George rubbed her back.
