Bad Camo

 

“That’s your defense?” the snake asked the slug, incredulously.

“Yes. What’s wrong with it?” the slug asked, a little offended. “I tuck my antennae and I look like a stick so nothing will eat me. See?” and suddenly, the antennae were gone, and there was just a blackish twig on the path.

“What’s your defense?” the slug queried.

The water snake proudly said, “I look like a venomous cottonmouth to scare predators!”

Neither one saw the human approach until it had stepped on the slug (still in stick-mode).

“See? Stupid defense” the snake thought, just before the shovel decapitated it.