What Ahti decided she needed was a better vantage point. Unlike wasps and hippos, she couldn't communicate with snakes. Those powers belonged to someone else. Pity.
She looked around, first at the direction expectant mother was taking, then the surrounding area. Oh, all too easy. She had spied the roof of a house ahead of the woman. Like all homes, the roof was flat, meant to be another room, albeit outdoors, for homes that were just too small for a peasant family to live comfortably in all the time. Not too mention it was a welcome escape from the heat of the indoors.
In less time than a heartbeat, Ahti blinked herself from the spot she had been standing to the rooftop. Holding the snake over the edge of the building, she waited for the woman to pass, clueless, below her.