Trails to Enlightenment

Kaa had a non-conventional method that could help her out? A...talent of his, as he put it? These things didn't make much sense to Emiko who still was curious, but growing somewhat skeptical about the prospects. It's not that she doubted that Kaa had some sort of unique talents. He was talking after all which...was considered impossible by all reasonable logic. However, she hadn't thus far gotten any further on her quest for enlightenment than before she had met him. Would the snake's 'talents' really make any sort of difference in her endeavor?

Emiko barely had any time to respond to his previous statement when the crown around her head suddenly opened up and the coil softly slipped over her eyes. Initially surprised by this, not realizing that it was designed to hide the deviousness of Kaa's eyes, Emiko worked a bit to try and push the coil off thinking it might have been some sort of accident rather than some sort of malicious move. When the python went on about how he couldn't speak of is talent as much as show it on the condition that she trust him enough to try it, Emiko suddenly paused in everything...

It occurred to her in that moment that it could have been very possible Kaa was holding back helping her because of her obvious skepticism and hesitation to accept his help in full... While that...was hardly the case at all, it made logical sense in that silly naive mind of hers... For the first time, Emiko (wrongly) assumed that she wasn't getting anywhere because she was holding the snake back from helping her. And in doing that...she was holding herself back as well... If this was going to work...to TRULY work out, she had to quit fighting the python and trust in his strange methods. He was the ONLY one that offered to help her find enlightenment and she knew she needed to play by his rules if she was going to receive his help...

Accepting what she thought was a genuine truth, Emiko finally decided to quit fighting against her own logic and reason and would indeed put her trust fully in the snake. To show this newfound acceptance of trust, she gently ceased trying to remove the blind around her eyes and softly lowered her hands down to her lap. As well, the naive girl gently lowered her head submissively and apologetically to show her respect. To further emphasize her willingness to cooperate, her posture took on a much more relaxed, and open form showing she had given into Kaa's words. If her actions weren't enough to confirm it, her words that followed most certainly were.

"...I understand now what's been going on... How you've tried to help, but my own actions have hindered it..." Emiko softly replied with a strong sense of humility in her voice. "...I won't question your motives, or your methods and I will trust you fully to try...whatever it is you think will help. I came to you seeking enlightenment and I am willing to do anything it takes to achieve it. I will trust you to try anything you deem worth while and will no longer fight the process you know best."

Whether this sense of humility and acceptance was something Kaa was aiming for or not remained to be seen, but poor Emiko had fallen hard into his words and was now seemingly willing to do anything he wanted. She was well primed to receive the devious tricks that were apparently just moments away... Had Emiko been even slightly aware of the truth, she wouldn't have been so willing as she was now. However, Kaa had worked his sly tongue brilliantly on her desires and had tricked her into a state of openness that would lead to the next step however he pleased... The naive girl was most likely about to receive a harsh dose of dangerous reality, and the funniest part was, she was ready to do whatever lead to it without question at the python's request to show her devotion and trust...

Being blinded like she was, Emiko was hardly able to see anything Kaa was doing atop her head. She could certainly try to guess or imagine, but she was totally in the dark about what Kaa was up to. Had she known that the python was positioning himself to soon unleash his deviant little talent, she might have been responding differently. As it was though, she simply sat quietly and passively wanting to show Kaa the utmost amount of trust in what the snake had to do. It was an act...that would ultimately prove to be detrimental to the naive girl in the long run...

While Emiko certainly couldn't see Kaa, she was well able to hear him. She did have to admit that she felt a small sense of joy when the snake expressed how pleased he was with her. Seemed like she was finally making the right moves and couldn't help but smile when the python went on to explain how he was willing to do everything in his power to help her out. Something did seem a little strange though when the snake promised that she would soon be in a state of mind like no other... Maybe it was just how he said it, but...was a different state of mind the right way to describe enlightenment? That...honestly should have been a warning that sent up the ultimate red flag, but being the naive girl that she was, Emiko dismissed it...and would moments later find out the truth...

Emiko only remained blinded by the coil for a few moments longer before Kaa finally began to lift that very coil up for her to see once more. As he did so, Emiko heard the python express the suggestion to do as he said, to relax, and trust in him. Both, ready and anxious to do just that, the curious girl smiled seemingly ready to do whatever it took for the sake of the python as well as the sake of her ultimate goal of enlightenment. When that coil was finally removed and her eyes were given visibility once more...what Emiko saw was far different than anything she could have ever expected...

Before her very eyes were the eyes of the snake. However, rather than having those strange yellow eyes Emiko had seen previously, his eyes were strangely flowing with colors. Ring upon ring of vividly shiny, alluring colors of blue, green, and yellow spiraled about through the python's eyes in the most dazzling display. It was truly a mesmerizing show unlike anything Emiko had ever seen before. And it took Emiko by such surprise that the poor girl found herself instantly captivated by the sight before her.

Initially upon seeing the colors, Emiko's joyful expression changed to that of a curious glance with her smiling lips gently falling agape and her eyes gradually opening wide with curiosity. It wasn't long after this however, that her body seemed to instinctively draw forward and fall into an even more passive state. There came this strange sense of what she could only describe as a sort of magnetization between her eyes and the snakes. As well, the poor girl couldn't help but notice this strange sense of blissful pleasure and peace starting to wash over her in the most mysterious way...

The longer Emiko stared into the seductive python's eyes, the more pronounced these strange reactions and feelings seemed to become. After a while, everything went from feeling blissful to...starting to feel hazy. It was about this time that her own eyes began to take shape... In response to the hypnotic display before her, Emiko's own eyes gradually began to shrink in size until they were a mere pin-prick. It was from this pin-prick that her eyes once more blossomed open to form colorful rings that mirrored that of what she was seeing. When those rings in her own eyes began to wash over her mind, everything Emiko felt began to grow substantially more powerful...

As the spirals continued to flow from Kaa's eyes into Emiko's, the poor girl couldn't prevent the gradual erosion of her consciousness. Each ring that passed washed away a small part of her each time like the ocean tide washing away the beach. In time, there was sure to be nothing left of poor Emiko's free will. And the saddest part about all of this was that Emiko didn't seem the least bit aware of this... She was as oblivious to what was happening to her as she was to Kaa's true intentions.

With time passing on, Emiko was totally helpless to not only continue to gaze into the snake's eyes, but hear and accept his words as he spoke them... To this point, when the python expressed with a hissy chuckle that she needed to watch his eyes, at his command came the thought that there was nothing in the world that would prevent her from obeying and doing just that. As Kaa insisted that Emiko trust in him, putting a big emphasis on that very word of trust, the poor girl couldn't shake this sudden, growing feeling of trust and confidence in the python. Kaa's words...just mere suggestions were able to take root and be firmly planted in Emiko's being. And...the strangeness of this was what started to stand out to Emiko...

Though it was true that Emiko was slowly on her way to trance, oblivious to what was going on, and only partially conscious of things at the time, she did know herself well enough to understand that...something weird was happening. It wasn't like her to just...willingly accept suggestions and feel overwhelming trust at just the mere mention of it in the form of a suggestion. Yet, that was exactly what was happening and she couldn't explain why that was the case...

Her mind sluggishly attempted to figure out what was going on and why she was suddenly responding the way that she had been. The rings in her eyes however, gradually picking up in pace made attempting to focus on those suspicious thoughts a little more difficult. Each wave of color that flowed through her eyes seemed to erode away her concentration and try to force her back to just mindlessly staring and accepting. Still though, she tried to maintain her concentration wanting to know what was happening and why she was suddenly so suggestible. That bit of conscious thought was forced to the surface as the poor girl tried her best to question Kaa about all this.

"...I...I'm...I'm confused, K-Kaa..." Emiko softly replied as her coiled head began to lightly sway and her spiraling eyes began to droop slightly from staring so hard. "...W-what's...going on...? I...I don't...understand...why I'm...feeling...this way...acting...strangely..."

The moment that Kaa's coil had fully been lifted from her head, Emiko felt as if a huge weight had been taken off of her. While it was true that Kaa's coiled crown was hardly heavy in terms of weight, the growing weakness brought on by the spirals somehow had tired her out and made even the lightest of things heavy. As a result, when the coil had indeed been removed, it allowed Emiko's head and neck to feel much more light and at ease. Though...this would only work to serve Kaa in other ways as he had plans for Emiko and her new found head-freedom.

Almost right away afterwards, the python began to gently sway to and fro before the captivated youth. Unable to take her eyes off of Kaa's for one instant, Emiko was unable to do anything other than proceed to move her head in gentle sways as well. Her sleepy face moved too and fro, instinctively trying her absolute best to keep those spiraling eyes in line with her own. In doing so, she ended up doing exactly as Kaa predicted in making herself dizzy and finding it harder to think and focus on anything.

It was in this state of dizzying confusion that Kaa was able to wrap his tail around both of her hands and manipulate them to falling on either side of her body. In a weird sort of way...when the python did this, Emiko had to lean forward a bit to get a better view of the snake's eyes which caused her once cross legged form to also open up letting either one of her legs fall to either side. Of course, she'd be pushed back a moment later with a random swaying motion leaving her body limp and helplessly open...

To quell her concerns from earlier, Emiko heard Kaa address her to say that there was no need for her to worry. He went on to explain how this was part of his little talent and that it was designed to relax and clear her mind. Then, he pulled out that card he had tricked her with earlier by reminding her that she herself said she would trust in his methods. Kaa worked to solidify that truth by causing his eyes to spiral just a tad faster which, likewise caused Emiko's eyes to spin faster sending that message firmly to heart...

Lost in the daze, Emiko could barely feel Kaa's tail when it initially made contact on her belly. Still wearing her clothing from earlier, all she could feel was the faint graze of it against her exposed tummy when her shirt got ruffled up during the cross legged meditation earlier. Though she were able to feel the coolness of Kaa's tail initially, once the coils actually heated up to match her body temperature, she hardly noticed them any longer making them almost invisible as they made their way around her limp form.

Instead of focusing on the coils, Emiko was more focused on trying to think about what Kaa had said and...now starting to doubt what she was thinking. At this point, it was getting harder to focus and concentrate and she was now wondering what she was so suspicious about. In her moment of weakness though, she heard the snake reaffirm how she had asked for his help followed by the stern suggestion to stop doubting him, or else he'd take it personally. Hearing this caused Emiko to completely give up any suspicious thoughts and instead focus on how embarrassed and sorry she was for doubting Kaa...

"...O-oh... I...I'm s-sorry..." Emiko softly replied with a deep blush of embarrassment spreading over her face. "...I...I don't mean...t-to doubt you... J-just curious... I...I won't doubt you...again..."

They python's chuckle may have came at Emiko's expense, but she didn't know any better... In fact, when the python let out his little laugh which she had inadvertently caused, Emiko took it as a rather positive thing and couldn't help but smile slightly just finding the fact that Kaa was happy strangely made her happy. That smile of hers however, would turn into a more genuine one when the python proclaimed that she had been forgiven for her transgressions. And a light lick along the tip of her nose seemed to seal the deal causing her to blush slightly from the action kind of liking it...

Emiko's little smile would only remain on her face for a moment longer when the python began to seductively whisper strong instructions into her slowly falling mind. These suggestions somehow seemed to fall into her harder than they had ever before... Her smiling lips eventually again fell agape as Kaa started to drill into her subconscious that she could always believe in him... That...she needed to trust in him and just in him alone...

These words sank hard into her being causing her doubts and worries that she had (if any at this point) to fade into oblivion. As she took these words into her mind without the slightest hesitation, her head continued to sway in small, sluggish circles similar to that of Kaa's. All the while, his tail was able to travel up her body without her seeming to notice it in the slightest...

While...Emiko didn't necessarily notice the tail gradually creeping up her body and wrapping her up, you bet she noticed when one of his coils made their way around her legs and started to rub against one of her ankles. At just the touch of this, a soft little gasp escaped her lips before the most contented moan followed showing just how powerful that simple rub was... It was no secret that Emiko had a soft spot for snake scales on her ankles and feet, but that seemed more than amplified with the hypnosis that was going on...

Lost in a state of bliss and trust, Emiko continued to watch the python's eyes without any hindrance or hesitation. Kaa didn't even need to reaffirm that the naive girl needed to watch his eyes and trust in him. However, his words wouldn't fall on deaf ears and in fact made the desire to look into the snake's eyes and trust him all the more prevalent. At this point, there didn't seem like Emiko could think of anything else but her trust in Kaa and his wonderful, beautiful eyes...

Poor Emiko was so lost in, and so helpless to the python's eyes... The rings that had been flowing in her own eyes began to gradually speed up in their movements showing that the naive girl was falling a bit faster and ever closer to trance. With the increase in speed of the rings, so to did the numbing effects the spirals had on her mind causing her consciousness to be wiped away little by little with each passing ring... As Kaa expected, she would most certainly fall hard into trance soon enough, but...she wasn't quite there yet.

Regardless of how far she still had to go in order to fall, the poor girl was unable to prevent anything that was happening to her... She could no more stop her own head from sluggishly spinning in small circular sways than she could prevent the coils from riding up her body. Loop after loop were able to form around her limp form without the slightest hint of resistance. Worse yet was the fact that Emiko STILL hadn't really noticed that she was gradually being encased within the coils. She was just...totally and completely oblivious to everything that was going on around her. With the hypnosis and the snake adamant about keeping her attention on his eyes however, it made sense to a degree why she was so oblivious...

As the python began to speak to her once more, he made a command that...seemed a bit odd to the naive girl. The command for her to clear her mind was one that made total sense. However, when Kaa mentioned something about clearing her mind of everything except for her master and how much she loved to obey...that was when something about all this started to feel wrong...

Emiko was far from being able to consciously put any coherent thoughts together, but even in her dazed, mesmerized state, she still remembered that whatever Kaa was doing was suppose to help her in her quest to find enlightenment. And...viewing the snake as some sort of master and being coaxed into loving to obey him? That...didn't at all seem like something that had anything to do with what she was trying to find... Emiko couldn't naturally place two and two together with how sleepy and hypnotically drugged her mind was. However, she was still concerned enough that despite the instilled trust she had in the python, she couldn't help but start to verbalize a small protest about this...

"...I...I don't...understand..." Emiko softly whispered, with a slur in her speech at this point. "...W-what's really...going on with me, K-Kaa-ULP!"

Emiko could no more get those slurring words out of her mouth and whisper Kaa's name when his tail forced itself hard around her throat causing her to audibly gulp to a silence. In response to this action, her eyes shot open wide and her body jerked slightly which actually worked in Kaa's favor by allowing her neck to stretch out just enough that the python's tail was able to tuck itself neatly under her chin and hold her neck in such a way to prevent any further protests or speaking for that matter...

For a moment after this little action from Kaa, Emiko sat in the coils with this small sense of danger in her body. It was at this moment however that the power Kaa had over her really began to set in. She was totally helpless and couldn't move a muscle without his consent. While this was should have sent the greatest of fears through her...the hypnosis she had been exposed to actually caused her mind to gradually release that feeling of danger and instead replace it with euphoria. Within mere moments of basking in Kaa's power, the hypnosis began to greatly reshape her thoughts and feelings on the subject turning her sense of danger into a sense of joy. It was powerful enough that almost right away, a soft little smile began to creep over the naive girl's lips showing how intoxicated she was with the python's power. That one little smile combined with her sudden admiration for Kaa's power helped to show that she was dangerously close to falling into trance. One last push was all the poor girl needed in order to fall into blissful oblivion...

Being on the verge of trance had already put Emiko's somewhat suspicious and scared mind at ease. And the realization of the power that he had over her as well worked to his benefit. When the python began to gently vibrate and massage her coiled up body along with loosening up the tail around her neck, it just worked that much more to push her ever closer towards trance... She was right there on the verge of falling and...it was honestly a miracle she hadn't fallen yet. Whether she was still awake due to resistance, or some sort of mental strength was up for debate, but...it wouldn't matter soon enough...

In fact, when Kaa went out of his way to assure here that there was nothing at all for her to worry about and that all of this was part of the path to finding enlightenment, that was the final push to remove all doubt and suspicion... Those words helped remind Emiko why she was going through all of this and recall just how much she wanted to find that sense of enlightenment. It was all she wanted...more than anything else in the world. And all of this...according to Kaa anyway...was necessary for her to obtain it... Whether that was true or not wasn't exactly as relevant to the poor girl as much as the fact the one with the swirling eyes said it. And those words which she had been coming to trust in fully sank in hard and fast into a fully accepting heart...

As the words sank in and Kaa's power continued to pour into her eyes, every last trace of fear or concern that Emiko had was wiped away. And thanks to the newfound 'clarity' fo her mind, it was all Emiko needed to fall over the edge. And fall over the edge she did...hard... With a gentle PING sounding off inside of her mind, all conscious thoughts ceased. her mind instantly went blank as a silly grin overtook her lips and her eyes shot open wide with cascading spirals pulsing through them at a phenomenal speed. It was in that moment that Kaa could see the truth that poor Emiko had just been hypnotized and fallen totally under his spell...