"He can see me?" hisses the dark woman. "Too many people can see me." She creeps behind the local Empress. "And that's not a name."

"...She'd prefer his real name, at any rate" Golden Bella says. "She would strongly prefer it, and I would strongly prefer to keep her happy."

"Oh, she's doing that thing again," says someone in the corner to the person sitting next to him. "Let's go do something interesting." His companion agrees and they leave the room.