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Post by mrgrimm55 on Mar 27, 2023 15:08:29 GMT -6
With the snake down and out for the count, Cindy went over to gingerly remove the coils around Julia, who was breathing steadily with a few coughs to regain her breath. Both were quite worn from such a night-time scared and not without their head coated in saliva dripping over their matted hair, but they were alive, so that's what counts. Both of them looked at each other for a full minute, still ladened with shock as the two sisters try to process their next move, that is, until Cynthia had the good fortune to speak up simply;
"We should-"
"Yeah, say no more, let's go!"
And that brief exchange of them affirming their take to leave was all it took really. What could you honestly expect when two, wide-eyed women just survived an encounter with a snake that wanted them stuffed in his gut? Not that they were gonna stick around long enough to push their luck. One they were both on their feet, the two sisters began to run out of there, aiming to cover some distance from the second snake and keeping an eye out for any other fauna that may be watching them.
The sun began to break slowly over the thick foliage of the canopy, shining down on a large rowboat that housed the two sleeping women, the soft rocking of the boats wood against the waves doing wonders to keep them asleep. After such a harrowing night-time encounter, the two weren't too keen on sleeping under a tree, or any sort of ground and were quite lucky to find a boat to sleep on and try to move down-river to some sort of civilization.
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Post by 『Chronos』 on Mar 27, 2023 16:20:55 GMT -6
The two sisters certainly earned their nights rest after what they had endured and the rowboat carrying them down-river was doing well at giving them some protection from the prior two snakes that they had run into. Would it be the last time that they saw them? Whose to say, hypnotic talking snakes are difficult to predict sometimes. Though their troubles were far from over.
Eventually their rowboat would carry them close enough to the river bank in which the boat would stop, giving them time to awaken, take in their surroundings and further on their journey. However not too far away from where their boat stopped was another serpent, an anaconda, resting atop a large rock. Large coils bundled up around the itself and trailing off the rock clearly showed that it too would have no troubles making a meal out of them should they disturb it. Yet all remained still as the forest watched to see who would awaken first.
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Post by mrgrimm55 on Oct 17, 2023 23:49:26 GMT -6
As the rays of the sun gently shone through the thick canopy and struck Julias face, she let out a small stir as the warm light awoke her from her slumber. With a slight groan, she slowly opened her eyes, frowning slightly at the rays hitting her eyes that prompted her to turn her head away and slowly sit up. Her hair was nothing short of frazzled, sticking a bit over the play after spending the night in the humid air, as well as dealing with the craziness of the night. Well, at the very least, she got enough sleep to groggily look around. At least they were on the shallower end of the river, and with nothing but rocks and logs that wafted downwards or stuck around near the shore.
She looked down at her sister, smiling a bit as she saw that her sis was sleeping soundly still. Figures....
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Post by 『Chronos』 on Oct 21, 2023 1:16:07 GMT -6
Fortunately for the two sisters the nearby anaconda was still resting and it didn't seem like their scent was enough to awaken him at this moment. Of course that small blessing could easily change should the siblings unintentionally get closer to awaken the beast. That would be as far as their good fortune would take them as on the opposite end of the spectrum, the lack of movements on the anaconda's part helped him blend in with the rocks around him. The way his long sinuous body was draped around them would just appear as part of the rocks at first glance.
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