So into the snake cage went Max the cobra snake and clearly
he had bigger problems then worrying about whether Claire had been kidnapped or
even just ditched him and gone back home to cllect the insurance money on her missing and presumed dead
husband Max.
For the next few weeks Circe ignored him and it was Circe's younger sister
Hecaba the Sorceress Apprentice
who came in to keep Max from starving to death.
Strangely Hecaba didn't feed him rats
living or dead
but normal human meat that hd been cooked properly.
So Max ,even though he couldn't talk back
learned to listen to Circe's younger sister and thus
learned that Claire had returned to their hometown and started
proceedings to have her missing husband
Max declared dead so she could
collect on the life insurance policy
she'd made on him shortly after
the two of them had married
and before they'd headed to Pleasure Island.
To put it bluntly,Max was the victim of a insurance scam Claire had pulled on ten of her other newly wed husbands who also had
vanished at the honeymoon
to Pleasure Island.
Claire was doing just fine
explained Hecaba
whereas Max and the other ten snakey ex husbands weren't.
So after a few weeks of this
Hecaba informed Max she was heading back to
Patagia City where she had a nightclub act she did during the winter
months.
Did Max want to come along and be part of
Hecaba's act