So they were looking for a worried woman in purple? Okay, it narrowed it down a bit but not as much as he would have liked. That they had been in a shoe-store did help more, he felt, as long as the kid hadn't been gone too long.

"Can you remember if the shoes were in that direction..." He willed his face to relax into an easy smile and pointed down the way they had came "...or in that direction?" He pointed to where they had been going. If he just got a direction he could maybe leave them there and go looking. He could move faster on his own, and someone had to stay with the kid.