"Yeah. Baedal's so different from home so I don't know what would happen or if people would even care if they saw me for what I truly was, but I don't want to take that risk. It's one thing for humans to accept a cute fairy girl, but I think they'd be a bit more wary if they knew I was a large, venomous snake. Back home, revealing your true form would probably be deadly."

And that was why humans often no longer believed in nagas, though all the same it would be dangerous. Humans weren't exactly hesitant when it came to killing dangerous snakes, or most weren't, anyway. Jay wasn't bitter about it, by any means, it wasn't like it was a regular issue since nagas quite simply didn't let humans know what they were, and humans were quite content to ignore any oddities in order to live in ignorance. The 'probably' was in there because this was an assumption, never tested. Unlike the garuda, they did not seek out his kind to kill them.