Anya had begun playing in Elric's study, in what was perhaps an attempt to get him to pay attention to her. Her papa told him to watch over her, after all, and he wasn't even watching a little. He was doing something else, perhaps involving haircuts because there was a lot of haircut stuff. Or saws, because she saw those around too. Maybe he was a lumberjack.

When a strange man she didn't know entered the room, the simply gazed at him with her big red eyes. He told her to be quiet, and though she was a good girl, could not oblige.

"Mister Elriiic," she called out, "There's a strange man in your study, and he says he's nice, but papa told me that people who have to call themselves nice usually aren't actually very nice and he's a STRAAANGER!"

She began to grow panicky. Strangers were usually bad! A stranger turned her into a vampire, after all. What if this man was a vampire too? She hoped papa would come back soon, because Elric was not doing a very good job of watching her.