Shrieky leaned forward, invading the other man's personal space with the lazy obliviousness of the very drunk. As far as he was concerned, this was one of the single most successful conversations he'd ever had with a human, and he was not going to let a little thing like maintaining a polite distance during conversation get in the way of that.

"There was a nest of eels in the moat for a while, which, I know aren't the same as snakes, because they looked quite different, but they were still limbless and somewhat similar in shape to snakes?"

He didn't really expect Rex to care about eels, we was just sort of trying to prompt the human to talk more about snakes. Shrieky had never known they were so wonderful.