This sounds less and less ideal. "Learning, huh?" Oh boy. "I can't say that he's wrong about the heat thing there, but sandals and socks. No. I'd rather freeze."

Well, probably not, but it's easy to be in favor of that as opposed to a fashion faux pas when you weren't actually freezing at the moment. Not that he has feet to worry about at the moment either, which is another problem entirely, but he hopes this whole snake thing goes away soon so he can be properly annoyed.

"I think we can find a work-around for the whole shoe thing if we can find big enough ones to make use of. But failing that, just grab some old tires and we can cut out some soles. Those'd be the most important part anyway, since they'd have to be reasonably tough. I'd need like...something to punch holes through them and a needle, some cord, or at least something thicker than thread..."