Chapter Two: The Hippocampus on the Cracked Lintel

Hearing Mordred speak, Leth curiously goes to the room he's standing in, and inhales sharply at the sight of the girl.
"Mordred... No offense, but perhaps it's best if you let Vad and me handle this." He says slowly and calmly, mindful of the frightened child. "Maybe go let the others know?" He finishes before turning his attention to the girl.

"Hello there... I'm sorry if we scared you, but we're only here to help. What's your name? Are you hurt, or hungry?" He asks her, also drawing some of his rations from his pack to offer her.

Mordred drops the waybread on the bed, gathers his rapier and backs out of the doorway.

Shamush watches the others go explore the manor and nods to Zangua, "Want to check out the rest of this spooky little place?" He gestures to some of the other buildings and starts ambling their way. He picks at his teeth with the owlbear claw speculatively, and says, "If I were the settling down type, this would be quite the jackpot. All these nice houses, a herd of beasties and no one to say boo if you just went ahead and moved in."

Are the other houses/structures close enough to walk to without taking hours?

Zangua follows the barbarian, mindful of the noise or lack thereof. He tries to pay attention to any closed windows and if shadows can be seen from within.

It sounds like Vad was helping with the search of house, so I'll assume that he is now in the room with the little girl and Leth.

Thinking the girl's reaction had very little to do with Mordred being a Tiefling, Vad will stand silently to Leth's side as he tries to get the girl to open up. "Something happened here. Something bad that this girl most likely had to witness" Vad thinks to himself as focuses in on the little girl, trying to see if she has any visible injuries, and trying to read her reactions to Leth.

Vad, with a large smile on his face, will very slowly approach the little girl, making sure to stop in place if she so much as flinches. "Is there anything my friends and I can do for you before we leave, Little One?"

"Milk... are you thirsty?" Leth asks. He unslings his water canteen and slides it across the floor to her. "Here. It's not milk, but you can have it. And we could take you to a place with milk if you'll let us help you." He says. "But we need to know what happened here... you could start by telling us your name?" He suggests quietly with a small smile on his face.
Even as he continues trying to coax the child to tell them more, his mind begins racing, trying to figure out what they should do.
Confound it all... we can't leave the poor girl here. Now we'll have to go back and bring her at least to Grine's Knot... if only we had let Rolley come with us, then he could have taken the girl back.

We made a strategic mistake turning Rolley away, even though it was the ethically correct thing to do. Even without finding the girl, it would have been wise to have an NPC who is familiar with the area with us temporarily, at least. Dang it.

I think King's Cradle is just a location, not a settlement, like Pike's Peak or something. Maybe there is a neighboring farm she knows about? Did we pass any houses or other buildings on this side or the river? Honestly, I'm inclined to either bring her with us or leave her here with rations and as much water as we can draw out of their well rather than lose another 2 days (to Grine's Knot and back).

While the others talk to the girl, Mordred goes back to the front door and waves the rest of the party over, if he can see them. He then scours the house for any of the girl's toys or dolls to bring to her.

Mordred gestures everyone out of the room with the girl. Standing just outside the door, and holding the toys in the doorway so the girl can see them, Mordred enacts a little puppet show using whatever dolls, carvings and knickknacks he gathered. It's about a little girl who at first is scared, but becomes brave enough to go on an journey with some adventurers. In the end, everyone gets milk.

ETA: I'm willing to actually do the puppet show in the thread if it gets me a bonus on the roll.

Shamush enters the manor, calling out, "Zangua and me scouted out the other buildings and there's no one home. Looks like they all got cooked in the..." He trails off as he pokes his head in the room and spies the girl. He blinks in surprise, and exclaims with a grin, "Hey, you found a live one!" Then, realising something, adds uncertainly "Uh, what do we do with her?"

Zangua spits on the ground and mumbles darkly under his breath. He stares at the girl with a scowl, deep in thought, before he says, "We get her out of here. Take her back to the last place we had with real people."