"Master, are you thirsty? Here are some mountain fruits for you."
As Little Snake King snapped back to reality, a certain shameless sycophant had already scampered up the surrounding fruit trees and jumped back down, offering Su Shu a moderately-sized green and red wild fruit with both hands.
Opportunities are always self-created. Who cares if the master doesn't like me now? If I can get her to like me, that solves everything!
After suffering in this place for hundreds of years, it had recently detected a special aura nearby that might finally free it from its dire straits; so what value did its dignity hold?
As long as the master would accept it and keep it by her side, letting it be slick and glossy like that smelly snake, it would do anything she asked.
Su Shu crossed her legs, looked at the wild fruits held in the two paws before her, and then raised her head to examine the fox face in front of her.
