"What's the matter?" Cinder taunted the captain, "You scared?"
"Me? I'm not afraid of anything." He answered brazenly.
"Except for commitment. And snakes." She added, thinking about the snake that had slithered onto the rampion a few days ago. Thorne had run away screaming about a "poisonous devil".
It was a garter snake.
"Fine. Two things that I'm completely afraid of; commitment and snakes. That's it."
Cinder flicked water at him and pointed at the cave. They had been arguing about going inside, and argument Cinder seemed to have one. "Then go ahead. Caves aren't snakes."
"They could have them." He muttered, but reluctantly went in.