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Post by Emiko on Apr 30, 2022 22:26:23 GMT -6
Kaa may have set his sights on tackling the right girl first. However, getting to her in a way that wouldn't alert Selena or put both of them in a state of panic wouldn't be easy. Even if the serpent had laid in wait to strike at their current weakest moment, it was still a gamble with no guarantees. He'd have to proceed with extreme caution.
To that end, he started to work on securing Emiko by softly calling out her name to her. His first initial call fell on deaf ears as, despite not being as deeply asleep as Selena, she was still plenty deep enough to not be immediately aroused. As Kaa continued to call out to her however, that would disrupt her her current state of peace and work to wake her... If...that was Kaa's plan to slowly bring her up out of her sleep...it was certainly working.
By the time that Kaa had called out to Emiko the third time, the slumbering girl realized something was going on. And in a state of confusion, she slowly opened her eyes and blinked a bit confused. Unsure of what was going on or what she was hearing, Emiko slowly pulled herself up and groggily began to look around the 'camp' the girl's had made. She didn't know how long she had been out, but had been asleep long enough to still be very disoriented on first wake up...
Sleepily, Emiko looked about only to find Selena sleeping in a patch of leaves not far from where she was. The girl was letting out an occasional snore once in a while. But other than that and the sound of rushing water, Emiko heard nothing else. She'd blink a couple of times sleepily before giving a shrug of her shoulders. Then, Emiko would settle back down into her 'bed' and try to drift off once again thinking that whatever she was hearing was merely a dream and nothing more.
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on Apr 30, 2022 22:59:29 GMT -6
Of course, Kaa never expected his words to have immediate effect on Emiko. He still tried his best to stay hidden until the right moment, and it seemed... That he could toy around with the girl's sleepy mind for some time. That would do a good work at luring her exactly where the snake wanted her to be.
"Emiko..."
Taking advantage of what he did to his last catch some time ago, the python was going to have his meal delivered right on a silver platter. Of course, abducting her right here would be very risky... But at the same time would be much quicker... And rewarding too. His voice was much smoother and calmer than before - it was like it did not belong to Kaa at all.
"Emiko..."
The jungle predator kept calling the Japanese girl's name out from time to time, hoping he wouldn't catch Selena's attention too early. Of course, he would go after her too, but... He needed to secure Emiko first. And he knew a possible solution to that problem.
"Emiko... Ssstand up please..."
Hoping to take advantage of Emiko's sleepy mind, the serpent finally decided to set things into motion. It was bold of him to go straight for outright commanding the poor female to do anything he said - yet Kaa needed to take advantage of the poor woman while she was barely awake.
It was surely going to be fun!
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Post by Emiko on May 3, 2022 18:26:40 GMT -6
Emiko was just about to doze off again when she heard her name once again called in the wind... Hearing this for what was the fourth time again, she groggily sat up yet again and opened her eyes to peer around. Only...everything was really blurry with how sleepy she was. And nothing that was clear stood out in the slightest...
It was about this time that the poor girl heard her name called out yet again. This time though, it...seemed different from the previous time. It was almost as if something were calling out to her in such a way as to sooth her down, but...also wake her up. It was strange to say the least... How the words were delivered made her feel sleepy, but kept her from actually falling asleep...
She would hear her name one last time before hearing a sort of strange command associated with it. Funny as it was though, the words were delivered as if somewhat in the form of a lullaby. A lullaby-like command that kept those sleepy feelings very much in tact, but didn't wake her. It was almost as if she were in a natural-trancelike state. And strangely enough...Emiko felt...compelled to comply with what she had been asked.
There was a momentarily bit of silence and stillness making it seem as if Kaa's plan might actually fail. But after a moment or two, for reasons that she couldn't explain, Emiko slowly began to rise up from her 'bed' to a full standing position. Upon coming to stand, her body would sway gently in the breeze while her half-lidded, blurry gaze would stare out curiously wondering what was going on.
At this point, the poor girl was about half asleep, half awake. She did seem to be slightly under the influence of the voice, and her ears were very much listening for it to act. But this state was fragile to say the least. And the girl might need to be drawn just a bit more into sleep for her to do much more. Luckily for Kaa, all it might take to leave her asleep on her feet was a mere command to just...sleep. And if that did work while leaving her in this sort of receptive, obedient state, getting her into his coils would require only the softest of commands...
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on May 3, 2022 23:10:55 GMT -6
Seeing Emiko show some hesitation at listening to his words caused Kaa to briefly think that his strategy was not working... But fortunately, his commands slowly stared to take an effect on the girl's tired mind, as the serpent would see for himself.
As Kaa observed Emiko just standing there in a half asleep state, he instantly realized that she could he still aware of what was going around her. This small issue had a perfect solution however, and one simple word could be enough to solve it... For the time being.
Staying above the two, Kaa started to crawl a bit away, so that his voice could be used as a bait. Taking advantage of Emiko's dazed state, he then spoke one more command that could grant him an indirect control over the poor female's actions.
"Sleeep..."
Now, he could get her right there and then, but as long as Selena was near, it would be very difficult and dangerous. So, without much hesitation, Kaa uttered another command. It was time to test how much influence the python had on Emiko's mind - he did not expect much, but it would be better than nothing. Just to make sure, he position himself a bit further away from the two, but close enough for his prey to hear what was coming next.
"Follow... me..."
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Post by Emiko on May 7, 2022 12:03:09 GMT -6
For what felt like an eternity to her, Emiko just stood sleepily where she was not quite sure what was going on. In reality, it had only been a half a minute or so if even that since she had been coaxed to stand. In her tired state though, she didn't have much sense of time or even much stability. That was quite evident in how she was just...lazily standing about with half-lidded, near closed eyes and a sway in her posture. There was evidence to suggest that she was starting to wake up being 'forced' into this sort of state. But any reality of that happening would almost immediately fade with yet another command.
It was such a simple thing... Kaa merely uttered a single command for Emiko to sleep, and the silly girl did just that. At his hissing word, the exhausted girl's eyes slowly began to close, and Emiko hilariously drifted off in her still upright position. Her consciousness had been snuffed out with a single word. And it had been done in such a unique way that she was still standing. Still very much asleep, but still standing.
All the same, it wasn't like she was deep in her sleep, nor strong in her posture. The sway of her standing form would grow a little wider as if threatening to tilt over and send her tumbling to the ground. And even after her eyes had closed, they'd open briefly for a moment or two now and then to 'see' what was going on before closing again. All things considering though, she was very much asleep and on her feet at the same time.
It was a fragile state to say the least. Perhaps more fragile than Kaa's own situation with Selena being so near. Yet, the serpent seemed intent on using it to his advantage. It truly was a long shot to assume that he could get a merely sleeping girl to start moving on her own. Despite that being an outlandish possibility though, it proved to be a rather successful endeavor to uptake.
Upon hearing Kaa's command to follow him, something within Emiko just...seemed to act. Even being asleep and not able to comprehend why, the slumbering woman slowly shifted herself towards the sound of Kaa's voice. And then very gently, she began shuffling her feet forward in a literal sleepwalk towards Kaa.
It was really quite something to see. A foreign girl acting to mere commands in her sleep seemed like she might be in a light, natural trance all her own. And maybe she was! But whatever the case was, it was working...for now. Still, there was only so far that Emiko could travel with shuffling motions with jungle foliage everywhere... Sooner or later, she was bound to hit a tree, bush, or something else that risked waking her up... Working perhaps, but not a long-term solution.
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on May 7, 2022 12:26:05 GMT -6
Kaa himself knew he needed to be extremely careful with handling his brief control over Emiko's slumbering body. Not that it would last very long, but at least he could get the young woman exactly where he needed her to be. All he needed was a bit of luck, as well as patience and composure. The risk was truly worth it, but now Kaa needed to act fast, else his plan would fail once more. And the consequences could be much worse than last time.
The snake kept crawling through the treetops and trying to avoid branches and leaves which were constantly popping up in his face. Fortunately, he did not have to lead Emiko very far from her companion. He already set his sights on a medium-sized stone slab lying under a certain tree. He just needed to get both himself and his prey to that exact place, so that he could snatch her up much quicker, with style.
As he tried to lead the hapless sleepwalker closer to that specific rock, Kaa kept chanting short and simple commands with a quiet voice. He did not want to raise any note of suspicion inside the girl's mind, nor did he want to accidentally wake her up with the wrong word.
"Closer... Clossser..." - at that last part Kaa let his snake-like lisp slip, though this had little to do with his arrogance this time. Rather, it was a natural habit of his, which he could not control. But nonetheless, he decided to carry on. One single slip would not slightly weaken his control over Emiko... Or would it?
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Post by Emiko on May 7, 2022 12:37:37 GMT -6
Kaa was incredibly lucky to think that this plan of his had any chance of success considering how unlikely it was from the start. And yet, not only had he gotten the sleepy, naive girl up on her feet, he had actually gotten her to move in a trance-like state under his thrall. It was a very weak, fragile hold that he had on her, but it was working beautifully. And Emiko was quite literally sleepwalking herself at his words away from the safety of the camp and her friend...
The sly serpent indeed was having luck getting his prey to move from one spot to another obliviously, but he seemed to have a few other things working in his favor. Namely, and obviously Selena being very much sound asleep. She wasn't waking up anytime soon, and a sleepy girl shuffling her feet while moving through the jungle foliage wouldn't rouse her suspicion... But Kaa's luck didn't quite stop there.
Emiko herself wouldn't quite be roused from this state as well so long as the snake was careful. The poor girl had recovered her shoes from earlier preventing her from stepping on, or hitting something with her feet as she walked along. And, while her dress was far from jungle-appropriate, it still provided enough cover to keep most of her body free of the brushing foliage that might rub against her body and alert her to the situation. Kaa still had to be extremely careful, but...luck was on his side at the moment...
For the time being, Emiko quietly walked along doing her best to 'follow' the serpent as he tried to lead her away. In her sleep, she couldn't quite comprehend anything that was going on. And yet hilariously, she couldn't seem to stop walking forward or following the serpent's direction.
She'd walk through any path he moved her through, and do her absolute best to move where the snake wanted her to go. At one point, Kaa did slip up and let a lisp slip out of his mouth. That should have been something of a red flag, but Emiko was too sleepy to even notice it. In one ear, and out the other it went as she merely did as he suggested to get 'closer' to the sound of that voice. In this moment, that's all that mattered...
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on May 7, 2022 12:58:24 GMT -6
The further Kaa went, the more faith he had in his success. The idea to take advantage of Emiko's half-asleep state sounded good on its own, but seeing it actually work in the serpent's favor was the key factor in his self-confidence being greatly boosted. He still had to deal with navigating through treetops, but since the space started to become more free to move through, the python deduced that he must be close to the final destination of the Japanese girl's sleepwalk.
Finally, he could see a rock lying right at the tree root. The funniest thing was, he always expected this rock to be much bigger than in truth, but he did not really care about that. It seemed to be flat enough to stand on without trouble, but the thought whether or not the girl could hit the rock on accident also crossed the serpent's mind. And for that exact case, Kaa had an emergency command.
Once the jungle predator led Emiko close enough to his tree, he hissed a quiet, but nonetheless meaning command.
"Stop... and step up, please"
Kaa did not know whether or not it could be too late for him to utter this sentence - even he had little idea on how long would it take for Emiko's body to actually stop walking, as well as how quick her dreamy mind could comprehend having a sudden obstacle in her way. But the snake decided to act no matter what the outcome would be. His coils already started to shift from above and lower down to the young tourist's waist. Kaa did not go for wrapping her up yet, but he was very close to doing exactly that.
Only time would show if he could keep his charade going for any longer.
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Post by Emiko on May 7, 2022 13:10:02 GMT -6
Step by step, foot by foot Emiko traveled through the jungle towards...wherever Kaa wanted her to go. There was more than one occasion where she might start to stir as her body sleepwalked along due to the motions jarring her from the state. These instances were mostly when the terrain shifted, and Emiko had to adjust to them. Thankfully though, the pathway would level out soon after and it was easy for the poor girl to drift back into her state while being able to shuffle along as she had been.
After a while, Kaa brought Emiko to an opening where a flat, slightly elevated rock awaited them. Just getting her here was risky on it's own, but the pivotal moment that would decide it all was when he commanded her to stop, and step up. The command had been given rather quickly, almost carelessly as his sleepwalking prey was quite close to rock. In fact, she was a mere three steps away from walking right into it when she was given the order...
As the command was given, it naturally took Emiko a moment or two in order to recognize the command and let her sleeping body follow through on it. That led to her taking two steps in the rocks direction, almost taking that third...before she stopped. The toe of her shoe was mere inches from hitting the rock and causing her to stumble when she knew to stop giving Kaa yet another lucky break... But his luck would hold out again as Emiko followed through on his order...
It took a moment yet again to let the command take root and her mind to comprehend it in her sleepy state. After that moment's pause though, she lifted her right foot up, and stepped onto the hard surface of the rock. Following this, she'd step onto it and bring her left foot to stand on the rock as well.
All said and done, Emiko was now standing on this flat rock still quite lost in her sleep. She still had a slight sway of her upper body, and it was obvious from her wobbly legs that she couldn't travel much further under these conditions... But if there were any questions as to where she was in her state right now, a soft little snore escaping her lips might give Kaa a clue. She was STILL asleep for the moment and oblivious to everything around her... Worse yet, she was now far enough away from her friend that Kaa had all the advantages... And, she had walked herself to this point...
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on May 7, 2022 13:27:31 GMT -6
The coils were all ready and around Emiko's body. Kaa slowly began to go for her waist, but it was not just one coil loop. Several more joined along the way, forming a small coil cocoon, perfect enough to keep a human encased.
"Now... sstand sstill..."
The python's large body started to slowly wrap itself around the helpless female's form. It all felt so familiar, pinning the young female's arms to her sides, encasing her upper half and even covering her neck with smooth coil mass. And now, it was happening all over again with poor Emiko. And just like last time, Kaa started to get hungrier with every second he spent staring at the young female from above... as well as losing his composure bit by bit.
It did not take long before Emiko found herself in the snake's familiar coils. Kaa no longer cared if this could finally cast a shadow of suspicion on the brunette's mind - there would be little if any escape by this point. Slowly, the snake began to lift the fresh cocoon up and lean it sideways. Kidnapping the poor girl would be easy to pull off, but keeping her under constant check with another girl not so far away would be much more challenging.
Nonetheless, Kaa tried his best to alleviate the situation with a familiar command that lulled Emiko into a slumbering state earlier.
"Ssleep..."
No longer was he sure if the command was going to work with such coil mass around the Japanese girl's body, but even if it did not work, the snake still had his own way of solving the problem. But given how the situation was going so far, he probably would not even need to use it for this time, unless something unexpected happened.
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Post by Emiko on May 7, 2022 14:28:03 GMT -6
Kaa's plan had worked quite well to get Emiko to this point, and he'd find his luck holding out for...at least a little while longer. However, his luck was about to run out due in part to his own carelessness yet again.
Things started off well enough with Emiko standing on that rock as silent and still as could be. Minus a soft sway in her upper body, anyway. That allowed the snake the opportunity to get a few coils around her waist and begin the wrapping process once more. This...accompanied by only a simple command for Emiko to 'stand still' and do nothing more.
Emiko would end up doing exactly as Kaa had commanded by barely moving an inch of her body in any way other than her slight sway. That allowed the snake's coils to gently pin her arms to her sides, and for the coils to rise higher on her body forming a new cocoon. And the motions as well as Kaa's hold did feel quite familiar to Emiko. Certainly enough for her to form a sleepy smile as her body instinctively seemed to remember how nice the coiled hold was.
She would end up standing perfectly still allowing the serpent to not only get a cocoon formed around her upper body, but to even allow the coils to loop around her neck gently. And within a few moments, the naive girl found her entire upper half within the coils just as she had been a few hours earlier. The cocoon had been made and performed to near perfection, but it was about here where Kaa started to get a little greedy...
Thinking his hold on Emiko was strong enough, Kaa lifted her slumbering body off of the rock she stood on. The sudden shift in tightness for the snake to hold her body and move her form from standing to limpness without being given time to adjust proved to be a bit of a miscalculation on Kaa's part. Perhaps more of an error as Emiko's sleepy state had been completely thrown off to a point where not even Kaa's words could get to her anymore... And worse yet, the actions had actually went so far as to disrupt her fragile sleep and actually wake her up albeit...hardly completely.
Having been roused from her sleep, Emiko opened her closed eyes and blinked a bit in utter confusion. She tried for a moment to lift her hands up to rub them in an effort to clear the blurry vision from her eyes. However, she found that she couldn't move her hands at all. In fact...other than her legs which, for the moment dangled below her freely, she couldn't move anything...
"...W-wha...? What's going on...? Why can't...I move my body...?" She'd ask, curiously.
Emiko was still very sleepy, and couldn't quite comprehend exactly what was going on around her. All that she knew was that her body seemed trapped, and that fact along with her still sleepy mind meant she wasn't fighting Kaa's coils...yet... Even still, she was already starting to wake up and her free legs were starting to kick about lightly to feel around for...something that wasn't there. Her state was weak and open, but Kaa would have to approach carefully or quickly to keep her from protesting further.
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on May 7, 2022 14:50:25 GMT -6
Once again, Kaa made a mistake trying to snatch the girl up safely. But while the girl started to wake up slowly, the serpent had already anticipated that. His lying skills came to be tested.
"Ssleeep..."
The serpent's head was behind Emiko's so that she couldn't see the familiar face and start freaking out by chance. This was the last thing Kaa wanted to happen at that moment. Still hoping for his words to still have a small leftovers in the young woman's mind, the serpent decided to throw a little lie in his game. The chance was small, but it was a chance nonetheless.
"This is just a dream... Relax..."
Even though he hadn't hypnotized the girl completely by this point, he still hoped for at least something to soothe Emiko's senses and put her to sleep. This was a risky strategy, but it could work - as long as he played carefully and kept his manipulative facade.
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Post by Emiko on May 7, 2022 22:11:20 GMT -6
Emiko was struggling to figure out what was going on as well as where she was at this moment. She couldn't really remember anything other than when she had fallen asleep aside from momentarily waking up to the sound of her name. After that though, she had drifted back to sleep and woke up to find herself somehow bound with her free legs unable to feel solid ground below her. What was going on?
Little by little, the poor girl started to come to her senses and threaten to wake up entirely. Kaa probably understood what a fully conscious Emiko meant for his chances of getting away with two meals tonight. And he seemed to understand that at least in part as he kept himself hidden from her line of sight. Not only that, he worked to subdue her again without making himself known.
Emiko's mind was gradually returning to the conscious world when suddenly, the serpent instructed for her to sleep again. It was a simple word, but one that seemed to have quite an impact on her body. Almost immediately, Emiko's body fell limp and her eyes grew instantly heavy. She was so tired and so sensitive to Kaa's hisses that...she found it easy to give in to the growing desire to sleep...
Kaa would add an extra layer to this by insisting to the silly girl that this was all just a dream, and that she needed to relax. Somehow...with her mind as sleepy as it was...Emiko seemed to buy it... It was honestly as far from the truth as it could be, but...how could her exhausted mind comprehend otherwise...?
"...O-oh...just a dream..." Emiko softly yawned, her eyes slowly starting to close. "...My dreams...are so vivid... They feel so real... W-wait...is it...really a dream...?"
Again, Emiko's eyes opened sleepily and gazed out into space. She once more tried to move her arms as if to 'feel' out her 'dream' but again found them unable to move. Her legs kicked in the air yet again showing that...at least they were free. So...why couldn't she move her arms or...much else of her upper body, she wondered. The poor girl was still quite sleepy, and gullible enough to believe the hissing words. But...would Kaa continue to press his luck and lull her to sleep with his words alone? It was a risk, but...could be done...
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on May 7, 2022 22:31:08 GMT -6
It soon become clear to Kaa that sweet talking Emiko into sleep was the best he could do - using hypnosis too early would be even more risky, so he didn't want to take any chances with bringing the poor girl even more out of her sleep.
Taking advantage of her gullible state, the snake wrapped around a small tree branch with his tail, putting Emiko in a coil cradle. It was not the best position to get her into, considering her legs were still allowed to dangle freely, but it could certainly do the trick.
Then, Kaa began to slowly swing his coil cocoon from side to side, holding his captive above the jungle floor. But simply rocking her like a baby in a cradle from side to side wouldn't be enough from Kaa's point of view, and so he began to speak again.
"Jusst your imagination playing tricks on you, nothing more... Now, relax please... And go to sleeep"
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Post by Emiko on May 7, 2022 22:46:28 GMT -6
Poor Emiko was drifting between waking up from this sleep of hers and falling back into it... Kaa had tempted her to sink back into sleep since this was a 'dream', and her mind had taken it causing her to feel drowsy. And yet, she couldn't shake this feeling that something was...very wrong. That strange feeling that this wasn't really a dream and that there was trouble afoot...
The drowsy girl would barely be able to comprehend any of that before the serpent gently moved the cocoon that held her and tilted it to form more of a cradle-like position. As her body was tilted slightly, Emiko felt a slight twinge of strangeness to the motions and lifted her dangling legs upwards as if trying to hug them against her chest. When she was unable to do this though again to bonds she couldn't quite see, she stretched them out again trying to feel for the ground or...something sturdy.
The poor girl didn't have the faintest idea where she was or what was happening, and before long, she found herself in a strange cradle of sorts that began to rock her from side to side. It was a weird motion at first, but one that she couldn't deny felt...rather nice. And somehow, it worked to actually make her feel more sleepy than she really was. Of course...Kaa's assurances that this was all just in her mind and that she needed to relax and sleep did seem to help influence her further...
"...Just...my imagination..." She softly repeated back with a yawn, before gradually letting her eyes close. "...R-relax...and go...to sleep..."
Emiko spoke softly with her words, parroting back the things that she'd been commanded to do and...also seeming to follow through with them. Despite the awkward position, her mind and body did start to slip back into sleep a little bit. Her outstretched, fumbling legs slowly grew limp and fell below her leaving them to dangle in the air. And gradually, her body would become more loose and relaxed. Kaa wasn't quite out of the woods yet. And even if he did get her to sleep in this manner, there was no guarantees she'd stay asleep. But for now yet again, his luck was holding out.
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