After a while of being alone with Alexander, both Michelle and he noticed a presence approaching them.
It was Mare, back in her human form, carrying the small snake wrapped around her wrist like a bracelet.
"I know why it did that," was the first thing she said.
Michelle lifted a brow. "Why?"
Mare glanced at the snake around her wrist, her expression hard to read.
"It just dislikes you," she finally said.
Four words, but they were still able to fairly surprise someone like Michelle.
Why would a snake dislike her the first time it saw her?
"Did I do something to it?" she questioned.
Mare shook her head.
"You just don't smell human even though you have the aura and presence of a human."
Mare's words reminded Michelle of the fact that snakes had an extremely acute sense of smell.
So the snake was able to smell that while she should have been a human by the standards of the world, something was off about her scent.
