Shrieky was touched by Rex's passion, and he listened to the description intently. "There were some elongated striped creatures in the moat with me, none of them ever bit me, so I don't know if they were poisonous or not, but they were most beautiful!"

They were also fish. He is literally one hundred percent certain that they were fish, and not terrifying poisonous snakes. But for all Rex knows they could have been!

"Have you ever touched one?" He asked, earnestly. Whether the question was about cobras or sea kraits wasn't really important.