Watching with interest as Tamara dives into the bushes, Kellus isn’t surprised to see her emerge not long after with one of the snakes Jaku had mentioned wrapped up firmly in her coils.  Seeing it up close, the prospect of a meal that size has her stomach once again grumbling its desire for something large, and she moves into the treeline not long after Arkain.  Looking about, she doesn’t see anything at first, but freezes when she catches the unmistakable smell of another large snake somewhere nearby.<br/><br/>She sees it at about the same time that it sees her, but her fury-boosted reflexes are more than a match for it, and as it dives for her with its jaws wide, Kellus neatly ducks under its lunge and seizes it behind the head, her own tail quickly wrapping around it.<br/><br/>The two come rolling out of the bushes a few seconds later, coming to a halt with Kellus underneath the snake but obviously in control of the grapple.  “Mmm, you’re definitely right about them looking at us as potential meals, Jaku.  Of course, if they’re willing to go after us, there’s no question that they’d just as soon snap up some of the crew if given a chance.”  Squeezing it a bit tighter to stop it from attempting to thrash as much, her tailmaw lifts up and positions itself up by her own head.  “Looks like we’re going to need to teach them that they aren’t as high up the food chain as they thought.”