After looking at everyone and making sure they are all unscathed, Jaku shakes his head and slides his way back up to a tall stand. He leans over and bumps into Arakin's side with his two left shoulders. Wrapping his lower arm around his side, while his upper arm flops ontop of his shoulders. He gives the green serpent a confident hug. "It's ok. You couldn't have known." Giving him a soft pat on his scaly shoulders he looks around and presses his trunk firmly over everyone's trailing bodies, squeezing them lovingly.<br/><br/>He leans into Tamara as she surprises him with a tender hug and kisses her on the cheek, while his lower right hand snatches her hand and holds it lovingly tight as Suri's trunk gets a surprise lick from his tail! He giggles and nods to Tamara. "Agreed."<br/><br/>Jaku lowers himself down and gently tucks his lower hands under his chest as the upper ones part the dense plant life. He giggles to himself, momentarily remembering his human life from so long ago. "I can see why this place is thought to be a haven for our kind. There isn't a pair of legs that wouldn't get stuck in this mess." The weather is warm and blissfully damp, he smiles remembering that the inside of Tamara's body was just a little warmer than this dense jungle. The sounds of birds, and all kinds of tropical wildlife permeate his ears as they all slither through the brush, using every tree, branch, bush, and rock as an easy point to push off of, slithering with ease.<br/><br/>He feels everyone slither around his trailing body and makes sure that all of their bodies stay close to each other as they travel along. But eventually a thought crosses his mind, his arms unfold and he flips his upper body over onto his backside, looking at Tamara, Ara, and Suri. "Hey, you know, I don't think he was worried about being eaten. I think he was talking about the souls we are carrying." A troubled wrinkle forms on his brow as his hands try to shape his thought. He looks at Tamara and with a bit of a smile, "I remember being inside you. I remember looking up at you as your hip completely enveloped my face, being pulled into your womb. I remember my body, my old body, was very uncomfortable for a brief moment before you pulled me from that body and into yours. At that moment, the tremendous tightness of your belly opened up and I could move around, I could dance, I could fly, I was just a thought inside you, and I was free. I remember how warm it felt, I remember how I could feel love pouring from every single direction, I remember feeling you holding me closer than I could have ever imagined. And I still remember how I never wanted to leave you, and the only thing that kept me from falling into that desire of becoming an inseparable part of you was that I would never be able to hold you in all of my arms ever again."<br/><br/>Jaku smiles with a loving look, noticing Suri also falling into her memories. "I'm sure its the same with you, and more so, I can feel everyone inside me. Some want to leave, and grow into beautiful serpents, others want to stay and live as a part of me. But there is love from everyone inside me, and I love all of them, and more so all of you. I'll be honest, I do not want to let a single one of them go. I want every soul inside me to live on inside me. I feel alive in a way I've never felt before. However after we make our next nest, we are going to birth a whole new family.<br/><br/>Jaku takes a deep breath, and closes his eyes as all four of his arms cross over his chest. He visibly looks uncomfortable. Opening his eyes with a very concerned scowl, he raises his hands and forms a ball shape in the air between his palms. "But I,m wondering, what if the love wasn't there? What if we just fed on them? What if all of the souls inside us were not family, but nothing more than nourishment?"<br/><br/>He looks back at the trail of frantically broken branches over his shoulder and sighs. Looking back to Tamara, Ara, and Suri. he nods his head, "I think we need to find that serpent."