"My tongue, it was always like this... I guess you could think of it as weird... I mean, the tongue isn't used to taste anything, only smell. But, snakes do have a set of small openings in the roof of their mouth which have olfactory nerve endings, enabling a snake to smell-taste a prey animal. The ends of the tongue fit into grooves of the Jacobson's Organ as it's called which is where the scent particles are processed." he told her. He had to open his mouth and tilt his head back a bit so she could see the organ hiding there. Then he looked at her and said, "You know how humans sense taste through touch taste, where the food has to touch the tongue because the tongue has taste buds. But for a snake, our taste buds are the Jacobson Organ. It's a little mixed up to put in simpler terms.."<br/><br/>He sat there, looking at the ground for a bit, where his feet actually touched the ground rather than Elizabeth's whose legs were swinging back and forth. "Though if someone dared me to eat a mouse, I probably would not decline..." he told her, looking at her again. "Guess I talk a little too much now, eh?"