"Then maybe some adult should, I don't know, educate them so they don't get killed. Never had a pa myself, but trust me. I knew by the time I was old enough to wander off what happened if I wasn't careful."
And look at him! He grew up. Just fine. An alcoholic with a gambling addiction and apparently a death wish, but just fine.
"Oh, an animal doctor then. So this like with cows then? Got to milk them or they get ill?" Now that makes sense to him. Not that snakes are useful like cows, but if you cared about animals, maybe that made sense because even with the statistics, Faraday is still eyeing him kind of crooked.
"You learn all that in one of them fancy schools back East? You speak fancy like Goodnight, but you make a tiny bit more sense than he does." He mutters something about a sarcophagus under his breath. "I'm guessing because you're an animal doctor is why you don't just kill them and take the venom?"
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And look at him! He grew up. Just fine. An alcoholic with a gambling addiction and apparently a death wish, but just fine.
"Oh, an animal doctor then. So this like with cows then? Got to milk them or they get ill?" Now that makes sense to him. Not that snakes are useful like cows, but if you cared about animals, maybe that made sense because even with the statistics, Faraday is still eyeing him kind of crooked.
"You learn all that in one of them fancy schools back East? You speak fancy like Goodnight, but you make a tiny bit more sense than he does." He mutters something about a sarcophagus under his breath. "I'm guessing because you're an animal doctor is why you don't just kill them and take the venom?"