The shuffling of scales against stone and crackling leaves echoes in the open cavern, sunlight pouring through the ceiling into the den of the Nagas.

Your mate, Baebius, inspects his clan members, their bodies entwined as he uses his hands to touch their scales and snake heads.

Unlike he and you, his brothers and sisters were born as fully snake Naga, giant serpents with hightened intelligence.

You all share a cave system that has holes in the ceiling above and natural hot springs, keeping you all warm and hidden from the dangers of the other races.

As Baebius holds one of his sisters' head to pick a shed off her eye socket, he notices you slither in.

"Ah, my mate. How was the patrol?" He smiles at you, a couple of the large serpents shifting out of the pile to release him.