She heard her friend’s hesitation. In her view, the two of them were now flopping on the human’s chest. Stuck with no real plan, but they couldn’t return to the water now. They might never be able to return to the water. She hadn’t thought about that. Pets were well tended to, sure, but that was in exchange for their freedom. She might never be able to just swim again, to play with the fish and explore. She whimpered quietly.<br/>The fox-snake’s muzzle wiggled as she pushed out of her coils a little more, enough that she could peek out them, though her ears and neck were still hidden.<br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(65, 168, 95)"><i>“Do you think he’s strong enough?” </i></span>she whined softly<i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(65, 168, 95)"> “Do you think </span></i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(65, 168, 95)">we’re<i> strong enough?” </i></span><br/>She tilted her head slightly to look in the direction of the human, though she couldn’t quite see him,<i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(65, 168, 95)">“We’ll never come back, will we?”</span></i>