His intention was to sprawl out on the sofa, but a surprising amount of weakness and the heat from the fever stopped him short and made the 6th year boy coil up instead over by the snake. He looked in on Rumple and noted the snake noticing him. Also the new shedding. Caleb and Beverly needed to get on that. It shone a bit iridescently in the light of his heat lamp and made him think of Daisy, Eden's brightly coloured corn snake. Did she bring her with her this school term? Better yet, did she bring Drago?

He watched the snake watching him and neither hardly moved, until Cutty let out a miserable sounding moan and turned on his side away from the snake.