Si Shuo stifled a laugh, and the males' eyelids twitched as they tried to do the same. But the cubs couldn't hold back. They collapsed to the ground one by one, roaring with laughter, forcing their Fathers to help them up with exasperated sighs.
Even Sweet Ring, who couldn't maintain his human form for long and had reverted to a little white snake, was shaking so hard with laughter in his Father's hand that he looked like a wiggling worm!
Jiao Tang kept his mouth tightly shut, unable to speak lest he spray water. With a gloomy look on his little snake face, he glared at everyone in turn.
'They were the ones who made me perform, so why are they laughing at me? What's so funny about this? I drank a bellyful of water; it'd be weirder if I *didn't* puff up like a ball.'
