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Tabetha didn’t mind the snakes anymore. They were nice to have around the place, once you got your head around the idea that they were now on your side. They crept around, sure, and you had to watch your feet. But Tabetha hadn’t seen a mouse or rat in months. That was worth a lot.
They also made good scouts, when you put them together with what Desert Joe called a ‘two-leg.’ The human would get them most of the way to whatever needed looking at, and then the snake would… sneak on in, then report back. Nobody besides Rex or Joe could make heads or tails what the snake was saying, but it was still a great way to give a place a looking-over.
It was good for ambushes, too.