Sleepy Fox Hollow peitsche

Elfie observed Mahler at work and in the end he was not sure, of whom he was afraid more. The snake, whose bite could kill him, or the general, who could kill him just as effectively, by crushing his head between two rocks. "Okay," he said quietly and regarded the elongated, legless body with equal mix of disgust and awe in his eyes. 

"Can you eat it?" was the next logical question, because food was not easy to come by and most things that had once been alive and moving around, were edible to some degree. Some of them - just once.