Kaa: Are you afraid of me?Mowgli: No...Kaa: Sometimes fear is the only intelligent response, don't you think?
With the tiger and the hunter now gone, the future shimmered from darkness into light. Mowgli, man and wolf, both and neither, had given the jungle a voice. And for as long as he stood watch, it would speak a lasting peace.
Mowgli: What happens if you fail?Baloo: You don't JOIN THE PACK!
Kaa: The whole jungle has been watching you, man-cub.Mowgli: Why?Kaa: Even you must know you are unusual. Not quite a wolf, not quite a man, or neither, or both...