"Long enough."

Or that's what he would have said if his mouth wasn't full. Whatever Korra didn't manage take for herself, the snakeman utterly decimated. When he was done he flopped back against his coils in a considerably better mood.

"Hard to say," he finally rejoined the conversation. "I got swept downstream the night I showed up. Found a cave, was in there for a long time. That's where I found this."

He held up his shackle again before letting his arm drape off the back of his tail.