Sorry, I didn’t mean snakes are blind in the literal sense. I meant that snakes have notoriously poor eyesight. And I apparently made a typo too. I meant that they are relatively unintelligent compared to other animals, not unintelligible. But since Noah is an Ace, his intelligence is at least as high as an adult human’s even while in his animal form. Although I don’t know if Noah’s vision is any better than a normal snake’s, I wouldn’t surprise me one bit if an Ace’s animal form had enhanced senses beyond a normal animal of the same species.

And I’m going off my personal experiences with not feeding live prey to pet snakes. My friend fed his previous kingsnake, Silas, live prey until one day he deposited the usual feeder rat and we left to do raid night. But after we came back from playing, we found both the rat and Silas dead in the terrarium. A vet examined both bodies and determined from the injuries of both animals that what most likely happened was Silas didn’t have a firm enough grip on the rat, which probably then escaped and with the last of its strength bit Silas as the base of his skull. Both died due to their injuries. The vet explained that what happened is not an uncommon occurrence – especially if the snake isn’t in a place in its terrarium were it could dodge properly. So it is safer for the snakes to be fed dead feeder mice.

Needless to say, since then my friend has only ever fed Martini and Parcheesi (that’s his new kingnake and his gopher snake, respectively, btw) dead feeder mice.