"Oh," Xas says, eyebrows lifting a fraction of an inch. He hasn't seen any snakes - some in the market, dead, but he thinks it's probably too cold for the live ones, if snakes are the same here as where he's from. "No, I've only been here a little while. A few weeks. Maybe there's a guidebook, have you looked?" If there is, Xas wants one.
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