Outside dorms - Friday evening

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Someone had dropped lots of snakes over the park. That had distraced River from the water balloons. She found the strange animals fascinating and had picked up two of them, holding them gently behind their heads and bringing them back with her for further examination. And perhaps as friends to Berthold.

The snakes hadn't been entirely cooperative, and had wriggled constantly. Now one of them had circled River's arm, while the other was trailing in the ground next to her.

She was upsetting the snakes. It wasn't a good feeling.