The woman who had simply continued to watch the children suddenly began to chuckle, then laugh outright. Her voice was strangely nice, the laughter almost had a melodic chime to it. Then she spoke, her voice soft and pleasant as her laugh.
"You are all quite funny you know. Demons, Abominations, Mikos. I think you've all been reading too many stories." She chuckled again. "Still, I suppose it's lucky for you that it's not the old days or you might be in trouble."
With that she seemed to crouch down for a moment. Then, with a single leap she was over the wooden fence and landed heavily next to the road. Now that the fence no longer blocked her lower half it was very clear that she wasn't human. At the base of her abdomen her body smoothly changed into what seemed to be a lioness's body complete with four legs. On both sides of her lion body a pair of large white feathered wings slowly folded back against her sides from stabilizing her jump.
Now in clear view she seemed quite content and settled down, laying her lion body down and crossing her paws. Like this her head still rose a little bit taller then the students. Now relaxing again she seemed quite calm as she continued to smile at the group. She was now right on the side of the road; not blocking the path at all, but the group would have to get quite close if they wanted to pass straight by.
"Then I suppose you're students from up at the school then." Her voice was sweet and conversational as before. Her eyes seemed to light up for a moment (figuratively) as a thought came to her. "Oh, how is Ronny doing these days? It's been a while since I've sent him a letter."
The guide-bot continued to trundle along completely oblivious to the new person.