[b]"They look homeless." Said the shadows in their eternally soft voices. To her they spoke, and no one else could understand unless they had been touched by Akajia. Her eyes glittered at their words, her tongue ran across her lips, and a smile curved them slowly.
"You are in my houssse," Annassena then whispered, keeping her form hidden from being fully identified. This place wasn't her real house. To all intents and purposes, she didn't have one. She wanted to scare these little children-humans. "What are you doing creeping and sssleeping in a place you don't belong?" Her soft voice rose as though incredulous, almost angry. "Sssupossedly there iss a Dhani in Ssstumble Alley. Dhani are alwaysss hungry..."
She figured they were awake. The male was stirring and his movements had to have woken the female. Annassena could see through shadows as though they weren't there.