All around her, the remaining students and staff watched on in utterly silent awe as the relatively tiny second year spoke quietly and gently to the most feared beast in the magical world. No one knew what she said but it was obviously the correct thing to do as they could see the muscles under the snake’s skin relax. Briallen finally noticed that everyone was still waiting for the other shoe to drop. "This is Sandrine, the Basilisk Guardian to the Chamber of Secrets. She won’t hurt you, but please don’t come any closer until Director Croaker can figure out why she was ordered to attack us all."