At least the broken piece of shrine proves useful at stopping the snake in its tracks. If Wrench is going to have to answer for the way he's treated some sacred place, he won't have to do it while sucking venom out of his ankle. That's something.

Not that he fully trusts the thing is dead, so when the younger stranger approaches he's quick to throw out an arm like he's trying to keep him away from the corpse. He's supposed to be supervising after all, and somehow Wrench thinks the only thing worse than the accusation about the broken shrine is the lecture he might get if one of the resident kids gets bitten in the face by a snake.

Fortunately it doesn't spring back to life, and Wrench makes a disgusted face at the smushed body. Too bad, he muses mostly to himself in sign language. Probably not much meat left now. To the boy he offers a shrug and a glance around as if to see who else might've noticed them.