The shock was written all over the faces of these little ones who had been strutting around, thinking they had been the first. But there was a deathly silence.
Juliet broke it. "You were the first!" She was surprised and smiled broadly with great approval. "Congratulations, Matthew!"
To tell the truth, she had no idea what to say. It's never easy to be the first for a stranger; in this forest, luck in finding those beasts does not exist. Those beasts are in very specific places, and the snakes are perfectly camouflaged, so a stranger who has no idea about this would not find them so easy to spot.
For young people in the city, there are subjects of study that teach them everything about the vast majority of the beasts in the nearby forests, as they usually go out on special hunting missions for the clans or city organizations, and it is good for them to know.
