Ferragut followed the direction of her eyes and after long contemplation discovered there three occupants.

With the amazing mimicry of their species, they had changed themselves to appear like minerals.

Only a pair of expert eyes would have been able to discover them, heaped together, each one huddled in a crack of the rocks, voluntarily raising his smooth skin into stone-like protuberances and ridges.

Their faculty of changing color permitted them to take on that of their hard base and, disguised in this way like three rocky excrescences, they were treacherously awaiting the passing of their victim, just as though they were in the open sea.
"Soon we shall see them in all their majesty," continued Freya as though she were speaking of something belonging to her.

"The guardian is going to feed them....