I sent it away. If demons eat people we will do something about that, don't worry. They won't hurt you while you're with us. Do you want to go back to her?

Yeah.

Pop.

The girl flings herself at him and hugs him, which he puts up with for a short time before peeling her off. They exchange words in their jabbery language, glancing occasionally at their visitors.

Well, we saved people from a demon in the first minute, that's a good start. Should we go figure out what demons are.

If these folks can't tell us, yeah. Relay me?

We're from another world and very magic and these demons seem like a problem, can you tell us more about them?

Book knows all about demons, says the girl, simultaneously speaking out loud, maybe so her brother can hear.

But he's asleep, says the brother, and I'm not going to be able to sleep for a couple hours at least.

Who's Book?

Our brother! says the girl, while the boy says, My cohabitor.

What's a cohabitor?

...the person you live with?

We're from another world. We are very different. Can you explain more - do you pick them, where are they right now...

They're here! I'm Holly and Crystal's sleeping, and this is Lightning and Book is sleeping, says Holly.

You don't have cohabitors? Do you sleep? asks Lightning.

...Yes. No one else uses my body while I'm sleeping, though. Are you born that way?

Not usually! says Holly.

So you have to false-sleep? And demons don't eat your soul while you're doing it? asks Lightning. Do you just have lots of dreamwards...?

In our world we don't have any demons. False? What makes sleep false?

If you're false-sleeping you're still responsive to your environment, somebody can yell or shove you awake if nothing's eaten you yet, says Holly. True sleep isn't like that, not even for me and Crystal, we can think a little asleep but not sense.

I think we false-sleep. Are you likely to get eaten if you're ever sleeping around here?

Of course. Even if it wasn't a klaon something'd find us. Back rimward it'd be safer from everything except klaonso, those are the ones you can't wall out...

We might be able to fix that. Do the things that eat people talk, can someone have a conversation with them?

No! They just come out of the pit and eat people!

The pit?

A long time ago a giant pit to the darkness opened up and a ton of demons came out, says Lightning. Used to be it would only ever be a handful from a volcano or an earthquake but now there's klaonso everywhere and this close to the pit there's physical demons too.

Okay. 

And to Bella - I should probably at least try talking to a demon, in case they're people...

It sounds like there are kinds, any one kind might not be while there could still be some that are...