Level 9: #20
Chapter: Comic, Level 9 — Hotel Califormian
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“Maybe I could go back to basssking and pretend I didn’t sssee thisss?”
Silly snek. You won’t find a passage back to the place you were before.
(And by the way, Y.T. flicking her tongue out to smell the air is a very cool detail.)
That bad case of empathy she caught during the hipster vampire arc must be acting up again.
“I am literally cold-blooded, you ssstupid mammal. I do not sssuffer from sssoft-minded afflictionsss like ’empathy’. Now husssh and let me plan a prissson break for my idiot frie…that isss, people who may still be of ussse to me. If thossse formiansss have harmed them, I sssswear I’ll…”
“Aw, ssssh*t. Thisss isss that ‘feelingsss’ pandemic the CcccDCccc warned usss about, isssn’t it?”
o yes
Basking is always an option.
Panel 4: she is “tasting” the trail, like a snake. Well, yes, because she is snake person!
Oh, and depending on where she is looking, in the dark or toward the spotlight, her irises adapt to the light level (panels 4 to 6).
Now THAT is attention to detail.
IIRC snakes smell with their tongue, so she’s sniffing the trail. Though, that would mean her nose is there as decoration.
Many animals have both a Jacobson’s Organ; the organ in the roofs of their mouth that enhance sense of smell, as well as standard through-the-schnozzola smell ability. You know when you see a cat make a “duh” face after intensely smelling a stinky sock? Or when a goat or horse smells something raunchy on the ground and then lifts its upper lip up like an idiot? That’s the Flehmen Response; they’re doing the same thing snakes do every time they bring their tongues back in their mouths…only they look really freaking stupid doing it, LOL.
Or maybe her nose is like a snakes and just for breathing, I guess…? If that was the case, she’d do a lot more tongue-flicking, though. I’d be inclined to think she’s got the best of both worlds, without the dorky lip-flapping. (that’d be funny if she did, LOL)
Goodness, she periscopes well.
Yeah, you forget how long Y.T. is until those moments when she uncoils all the way.
“I sssaid, don’t crosss me!”
voices down the corridor, you can almost hear them…she should have a candle to show the way though
but if they’d just put a mirror on that ceiling…
I was about to joke about them waking her up in the middle of the night, and then I read the alt-text… 🙂
Snake meet rabbit-hole…
She seems a little rattled…
Does she have thermoreceptor pits? I want her to have thermoreceptor pits.
Inspector Snek is on the case !
I do like the way we see her use her non-human abilities.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave . . .