Samantha frowned slightly; the snake had eaten someone's mommy? That made it dangerous! That meant it could eat her, and her mommy in one bite! Clearly the thought that a snake could eat a person hadn't occurred to her. "It gonna eat us," she whispered in the fascinated but horrified way a child might listen to a ghost story. "It gonna eat us all up!"
Reiya nodded in the confident way that betrayed her age. "I keep em safe," she assured the zoo keeper. "I no buy things that hurt lizards." She would buy all the lizards and save them all.
