She drops her to the ground, then kneels to pin the girl's arms beneath her knees. She brushes her hand gently across her face.

Acererak watches, not touching the girl yet.

The girl flinches and tries to jerk her arms in, eyes wide, cheeks wet with tears. "Who - who's th-there?" she whimpers.

Eliese bends down to whisper in the girl's ear. "Your new favorite people, of course. You want us to like you, don't you?"

Acererak hums, tone low and hungry. The girl whines, gaze darting around, then says, "I - yes - just let me go, please, my family can - pay whatever - "

"Oh, but we've only just met," she purrs. "We want to get to know you."

Acererak makes a small, pleased noise. The girl winces, trying and failing to curl in on herself, make herself smaller. "Just - please don't hurt me - "

"Oh, I can't promise that. I don't want to lie to you, after all." She kisses along to the girl's mouth, bites her lip.

The girl sobs a bit. Doesn't kiss back, of course.

They'll work her up to it.

"What's your name, sweet thing?" she asks.

"A - Ahmi," she says, biting her lip.

"Ahmi," she says the name with no small amount of delight. "I am sincerely looking forward to our time together."

Whimper!

(And, a whisper from Acererak - "The invisibility will wear off soon, darling. I can renew it if you want.")

"No need," she says back to Acererak, "She ought to get one good look at us."

She switches to playing with Ahmi's hair, coincidentally pointing her head in Acererak's direction.

And Acererak crouches by her as the invisibility wears off, grinning and saying, "Hello, Ahmi."

The girl whines a bit.

"Hello, Ahmi." Eliese says, grinning and bending her head back for another kiss.

Ahmi trembles.

"Interstellar Ebon Blindness." A band of pure black drapes over Ahmi's eyes, utterly blinding her. "We are going to be very good friends," she says, standing up.

Ahmi cries out when her vision darkens - and, when Eliese stands, she tries to get her legs under her. She's shaking badly enough it's hard to tell where she's planning on going, though.

She hasn't cancelled the leash yet, so she won't be getting very far in whatever direction.

She crawls back a bit - then seems to remember that, because she freezes just before the leash would have activated.

"What a lovely quick learner you are!" she coos. "Isn't she impressive, sweetheart?"

"Quite. Trainable pets are the best."

"What should we make the first lesson, I wonder?"

(Ahmi pulls her knees to her chest, crying.)

Acererak hums, tapping her chin. "Good pets should do what their masters say," she says. "Even just simple commands. Like 'sit'!"