Janim smiled. Protecting people and tricking them? Best day of their life so far! They shifted to an absolutely massive specimen of a python that had roamed near a swamp town they visited, snaking their new 10 meter length (33 feet, for those of you who don't do the metric system [like me]) to ensnare the frontrunner, the one posturing, trapping his arms and beginning to squeeze before raising their head and hissing at the others in the group. "Flee, if you value your ribs uncrushed," came their slithery message.