Guess who was paying attention to all of that the longer it kept going, guess who happened to be stalking closer with a face like a stormcloud and her staff in her hand? Why it's the lady of the hour and she cannot believe what she was witness to with all of that.

"If a solitary serpent is enough to provoke that," she hisses with her voice pitched just low enough to indicate her displeasure without causing a further ruckus, "then perhaps you are best suited to falling behind at the outskirts to wait. Surely you have faced far worse than that."

Trail signs. Looking for them. This is the task. So help her she will find that snake or any snake and throw it at you if that helps to actually confront it.