So the other rooms had water, as well. Less than this room, then, but still there were water. Although, it seemed that this Monoceros had a lack of water.
His tongue darted out, tasting the air.
@Pelt
Pelt waved a flipper dismissively, although it couldn't really be seen in Cetus' murky water - the snake would likely only see ripples.
The snake made a good point, and although Pelt couldn't care less if she had an unfair advantage in a real hunt, this was practice and so should be reasonably challenging, right?
Naja flicked out his tongue, tasting the air. The air seemed wet and muggy, here, and he wondered dully what dry felt like. He would have to go to Monoceros some day. See the difference. Perhaps he could find out why the air was different.
The Leopard Seal explained that she was slower on land, and that they could go somewhere with shallower water. And he did not yet know if he could swim, so he said.
@Pelt
Pelt wanted to laugh. Surely a snake couldn't swim? How would it? By repeatedly and awkwardly throwing itself forward in the hopes that it actually got somewhere? But then, it seemed equally ridiculous that a thing with no legs could travel on land, so perhaps it was possible after all.
She turned away from the land the snake rested on and dipped a little beneath the water's surface to swim for the edges of the cave. She did her best to travel slowly so that Naja could keep up - after all, he was only a hatchling. Surely there could be no way he could match her speed in the water.
Naja flicked out his tongue, slithering down to follow the leopard seal into the water. He hesitated at the edge of the water only for a moment, before slithering in.
And, he discovered, that he was rather fast in the water. It was just like traveling on the ground, but without any friction. So long as he held his head above the water, moving was effortless.
Before long, they had arrived where they were to race. Testing the air, he nodded,
@Pelt
The snake followed the leopard seal, interested in testing his theory. The other was larger, dure, but that meant she was slower. Naja, on the other hand, was small, but fast and agile.
When she told him he could go ahead, he rose up and began to move. It was a bit more difficult than in water, but the traction made him move more quickly.
@Pelt
Naja slithered along the mud, listening behind him until the leopard seal began to race as well. He didn't speed up - it made no sense to waste his energy by going quickly, when he could conserve his energy until the final stretch.
When Pelt began to catch up to him, however. He began to speed up. It wasn't much, but enough to give him a bit of a lead.
@Pelt
If the puny hatchling thought he could beat her, than he was wrong! Wrong, wrong, WRONG! Pelt felt an inexplicable urge to cackle as she worked furiously to close the distance between them. Oh boy was this going well! Some part of her knew that the snake was barely a hatchling and of course it wouldn't stand a chance, but the other part, the predator in her, didn't care how old it was. It was slow and she was fast and that was all that mattered.
Even with the head start, she was close enough now that she thought she could probably snap at the snake and catch it in her jaws. And she would have done it if not for the venom the snake possessed: she still needed to figure out away to avoid being bitten. So she held back for now. Maybe when the snake tired itself out there would be a better opportunity.