Ash coughed and spat out any water left in her lungs. It was all she could focus on until Shamus jumped out of the water beside her and she yelped, jumping sideways only to slip and fall back into the water. She gulped down dirty pond water this time.
She got up, standing in this knee high water. Where there had been a passed out Shamus, was a frog. Did this scare him into scaring the wits out of her? "C'mon, Pebbles! That trackin' snake is getting closer as we speak!"
Now, Ash had been afraid when face to face with the giant snake, but now? Her legs were still shaking, and if anyone asked, she'd lie and say that she wasn't afraid anymore. Yet in this fear was still some logic and it told her the snake wasn't going to hunt them down. So she glared at the Luck wolf and got out of the water until she was beside him and shook out her coat.
"Calm down. The snake won't come after us. It must have been attracted by the..." She looked up to see one of the dead guards in the pond. "The smell of death." She shook out her coat again and started to lope away, "So I guess it's best to leave as fast as possible! Who knows when it's done feasting on those dead bodies back there!"