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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on May 28, 2022 8:18:55 GMT -6
Kaa himself decided to keep his colors going on, content with Emiko providing unwilling assistance to her scaly captor. The snake could not speed up his hypnotic spirals any more, yet he kept the eye contact with Selena uninterrupted. After having one girl under his control, what could stop him from claiming the other one just as easily, other than his own recklessness? The eyes were emitting more and more colors, and by this point they essentailly mixed up in a hardly distinctive rainbow. The snake's coils were still holding the village girl up, preventing her from falling down on the harsh jungle floor... And speaking of his coils, the snake just realized the perfect way to put his second prey under complete control... assuming that it could work, of course
"Yess, eyesss cannot lie indeed... Time to join your friend... in a deep, blissssful ssleeep" - by the time Kaa finished speaking, his tail was back up at Selena's body, except rather than coil her whole completely, he decided to focus somewhere else. His tail began to go down to the village girl's legs, reaching her feet in less than a couple of seconds. His coils started to rub themselves against the poor girl's soles in an attempt to finally make hypnosis overcome her completely. He was thinking of applying the same treatment to Emiko next, wondering how would she react to that.
"Thisss little massage cannot lie to you either, Sselena. Just let your worriesss go... Your nightmare iss about to be over, you just need to go to... ssssleeeep..." - Kaa's words were now just whisper, but loud enough to hear at such close distance. He was imagining himself as a dream snake whose job was protecting other's dreams, but this was just another lie of his. As long as it worked, everything would be fine.
Meanwhile, deep above his coils hadn't gone anywhere. The Emiko cocoon was still safe and secure up in the treetops, but it's position would soon be far from favorable. Nonetheless, Kaa made a small effort at leaning the coils a bit back. The thing was, Kaa himself was not much aware of what was going on up in the trees, he tried to put Emiko back to the tree without even realizing that. Whether that worked or not was once again out of his control.
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Post by Emiko on May 28, 2022 8:39:44 GMT -6
The colors flowed on and on in the most dizzying sort of way. And after being exposed to the rings as long as she had been, there wasn't much left in Selena's mind that could compromise anything. She was so sleepy at this point, and so out of it that she didn't even seem to realize what was going on anymore. Whether this was a dream, or something that was really happening... It wasn't nearly as important as these rings, the snake's words. And she'd follow those words almost blindly from this point forward...
Kaa assured her eyes couldn't lie, and it was time to 'join her friend' in a deep, blissful sleep. A slip of the tongue like that last had jerked her to a conscious worry and bit of concern. This time though, Selena was utterly un-phased by the comment in the least. In fact, a sleepy nod of her head showed a sign of agreement that she was indeed ready to sleep. It sounded...so good right now...
While dangling over the edge of trance, Selena would barely move a muscle as the serpent let his tail slip down towards the native woman's bare feet and began to massage them. It was just a simple thing, and one that left Selena letting out a sleepy moan. Her toes momentarily curled from the sudden strokes showing that she didn't mind them. But beyond a sleepy moan, there wasn't much in the way of a notable reaction of weakness.
The strokes though were just enough to relax Selena just a little more. And as Kaa coaxed her as to what she needed to do in the form of 'sleep', that...was when it all came crashing down. Unable to hold out any longer, a soft PING would sound out in Selena's mind... As it did, her droopy eyes immediately shot open wide to pulse with spirals, and the dopiest grin overtook her lips. Selena's body would reflexively stiffen from the trance-shock only to moments later go slack and lay flat against the coils. All this done, it was quite obvious that the poor girl had just let her worries go and fell into a deep 'sleep' to escape her nightmares. Selena was now fully hypnotized...
While all the madness was happening down below, Emiko was still snoozing away within her cocoon precariously tilted over the edge of the branch. The weight of the coils along with her own were slowly edging towards an inevitable fall that would be bad for both Kaa and Emiko. However, the serpent seemed to, at least by instinct, realize that something wasn't quite right. And so, he made an effort to shift some of the coils over just a little to straighten up and secure his catch.
Kaa would immediately be met with a bit of a surprise by Emiko who jerked in her sleep and let out a disgruntled snore at the sudden shift. It wasn't so much a sign that she had woken up as just a 'shocked' reaction to an unexpected pull. Despite that though, she remained deeply asleep only to settle in once Kaa had finished. Though his movements did work as intended, moving a few inches to secure Emiko from an immediate fall, the poor girl was still precariously placed. It wouldn't take much for her to be tilting off the branch yet again... Especially if left unattended for too long.
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on May 28, 2022 9:04:40 GMT -6
So much hypnosis, so much coiling and sweet-talking... It was all worth it in the end, with Kaa putting Selena into trance, just like several hours ago. But fortunately, Emiko wouldn't be able to stop the snake on her own, nor would Kaa himself like to play with Selena for another half an hour. He hadn't forgotten about the Japanese girl being coiled up to be the second snack of the night, but despite his coil cocoon receiving quite a shake, he was underestimating how dangerous her position on the tree branch was.
To Kaa of course, not to Emiko herself. The smooth, thick coils around the poor female were wrapped up securely, like a life vest, and like a life vest it would provide protection by cushioning the fall, if she were to ever topple over the branch. But as for the serpent himself, well... He would be a bit less lucky.
But of course, that had yet to happen, as so far nothing seemed to be too threatening. The coils under Selena started to crawl once more, this time closer to the tree. Kaa smiled at his success, thinking that nothing could save the two. He managed to get each girl under his control separately, but only time would show if he would get burnt by playing with fire once more.
"Yess, thisss isss much better... Your nightmare is gone, forever. Enter the land of sweet dreams with your friend" - Kaa began to speak, his tail began to creep up Emiko's tree next after leaving Selena's feet alone. Quickly, the slumbering tourist's shoes were taken off, just like last time.
As he kept trying to delay the moment of savoring the meals, Kaa began to slide his tail across Emiko's feet next, all while unaware of what risk would he be put into. The coils were slowly swaying Emiko to the edge again, but Kaa paid no attention to that... Which could very well undo his entire night's work.
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Post by Emiko on Jun 4, 2022 22:10:11 GMT -6
It certainly seemed as if Kaa had ultimately won. Unlike before when he attempted to capture two meals, he had actually managed to entrance BOTH of them this time. It hadn't exactly been an easy road getting here as his luck wavered on more than one occasion. But in the end, it held out just long enough to secure both girls in a trance and ultimately in his coils. And now, he could really enjoy it...
For Selena, her trance was so fresh and so strong that she wouldn't wake up anytime soon. In fact, as Kaa complimented on how much better this was and assured her of the forever-ending of her nightmare, she felt so relieved... It was strange to say WHY she felt it, but she felt so relieved and at peace in this moment; more free than she'd ever been before. It...may have been farther from the contrary, but...she didn't know that...
To Kaa's command to drift into the land of sweet dreams, Selena didn't resist in the slightest. She was so enthralled by Kaa at this point that all she wanted to do was believe him, and obey everything that he said. And to that end...she allowed her spiraling eyes to close and settled into the coils that held her. Moments later, her body would drift into a dreamless sleep that she'd not wake up from on her own for quite some time...
With Selena now fully in a trance, Kaa had decided to shift his attention yet again back to Emiko who was still sleeping in her trance up above. However, instead of deepening her slumber, or repositioning her body, the snake decided to do something else to her. It...was an odd thing to do considering her precarious placement, but wouldn't go without results.
After silently taking Emiko's flats off of her feet effectively leaving them bare, Kaa proceeded to stroke his scales along her bare soles. Doing this, especially with her mind in a full trance let her feel the full extent of those scales on one of the most sensitive parts of her body. And...she let Kaa know about it.
Out of the silence up above, Emiko inhaled a very abrupt snore before exhaling the most contented, happy moan she could muster. Her legs, very much asleep at this point, could do little more than twitch with her toes curling. But her vocal moans went far to show that Kaa had stumbled upon a very weak spot. A pleasant discovery...despite the fact that the twitching of her legs caused her body to tilt a little more to the side further threatening to send Emiko tumbling off the branch...
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on Jun 4, 2022 22:33:10 GMT -6
And it didn't take long for Kaa himself to realize he managed to find a pretty nice way to play with the poor girl. His coils began to slide against Emiko's soles again, this time he put a bit more effort in providing a nice massage to one of his two captives. His scales were certainly cool and smooth to feel, and at one point the serpent's tail accidentally gave the girl a small tickling feeling which subsided just as quickly.
Kaa was not aware of this, but he certainly would not go beyond massaging and stroking there and there. He was no sadist, and what he was doing was mostly to keep the girl unaware of the situation she was in. And it looked like the serpent had one more way of subduing the poor Emiko and keeping her in his clutches for as long as he could.
"Ahhh, you are sssnoring, Emiko...' - the jungle snake hissed in her ear. Of course, with Selena recently hypnotized and asleep, he had nothing to fear from her, but still... Kaa was not really a fan of his captives snoring in their slumber. The serpent's head was so close to the young tourists's forehead, and... his reprimand was devoid of any scolding a typical parent would give to their unruly child. Rather, it was... soft and welcoming and so, so forgiving...
As he went on, the coils unknowingly pushed Emiko several inches away from the edge of the branch, but unlike last time... It did even less to actually put her back go the safe position. Kaa was not taking the situation seriously, thinking the Japanese girl would lean back to where she was... Not even realising it could bite him in the tail in a pretty harsh way.
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Post by Emiko on Jun 11, 2022 21:47:13 GMT -6
If Emiko hadn't been so deeply asleep thanks to both the hypnosis and the coiled treatment earlier, she would have been far more vocal in her enjoyment of the coils. Even still, as they continued to stroke along her soles, the mesmerized girl continued to let out these little moans to show just how much she enjoyed them. And their continuation would see those moans becoming gradually more audible in volume.
The silly girl was still very much asleep to a point where even this wouldn't rouse her from it. But the coils felt so good that she couldn't ignore them in the slightest. Never mind the fact that she had abnormally sensitive soles to the touch. Kaa's scales were so smooth with a texture that made their gentle grinding along her skin intoxicating to the touch. Emiko enjoyed them, and wasn't shy about letting her enjoyment show in between stints of gentle snores.
At one point though, it seemed that her snoring had gone a bit...too far for Kaa's tastes. Truth be told, Emiko hadn't even realized she had been doing it until Kaa pointed it out. All she really knew in the moment was the bliss of whirling colors, a sense of helpless sleep, and a myriad of coils that felt good all over her body; especially on her soles. So...when Kaa commented that she was snoring, it honestly took the sleepy girl totally by surprise.
Hearing Kaa comment on her activities, a deep blush of embarrassment spread over Emiko's cheeks. She felt a little silly, almost guilty that she were doing something as goofy as snoring. And, not wanting to be a nuisance to the python, her hypnotized mind felt it was best to make the situation right! She certainly wanted to, and...tried to do so through her words. Though, what came out wasn't quite much more than a simple apology, but did work to show how deep the snake's influence was.
"...O-oh... S-sorry...K-Kaa..." She'd lightly say, before trailing back to sleep yet again.
Despite how helpless and dire Emiko's situation was, the serpent still didn't seem to register that he was playing a dangerous game with the cocoon that held Emiko. Yet again, he moved his coils just a few inches to the right, shifting Emiko's weight with it. And the added weight to the side tilted her just a little more towards that side. The slumbering girl was still precariously balanced on the branch, and any further movements to that side without proper tending would send her tumbling. One wrong move is all that it would take, and the serpent seemed oblivious to that fact. If he didn't correct it soon, Emiko wouldn't be resting on the branch for much longer.
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on Jun 11, 2022 22:13:32 GMT -6
The snake's coils left Emiko's feet alone, for the time being at least, since Kaa deemed that it would be enough for now. He leaned closer to the young girl's face and couldn't help but coo at her helplessness. And indeed, she looked so adorable in her sleep, especially when wrapped up and hypnotized by the sinister python.
Hearing her apologize made Kaa feel... Respect towards her. Unlike Selena, Emiko didn't seem to try and harm the python in any way. So, when he heard her saying that she was sorry and that she referred to her captor by his name, Kaa himself felt flustered and began to speak.
"It's fine, Emiko... It'ssss not bad at all" - with another headpat to the sweet tourist, the brown snake gave her a nice, comfy tug with his coils. It was not harsh, it had no forceful intentions. It was just... A seemingly friendly squeeze to the unsuspecting girl.
Kaa was still playing around with Emiko, not even having the slightest idea of how risky the situation was for him. He once again unconsciously tried to lean the coil cocoon back to the tree trunk, because... Leaning the girl to one direction was not much fun to him. Still, not much effort was given once again, but... The serpent seemed to still have control over the whole situation. For however long it seemed to be, that is.
"Yesss... Go to sleep and enjoy being in my coilsss. I promise to take you sssomewhere even warmer to be in" - the snake let it slip once more, but it didn't seem to matter much. The serpent was even closer to achieving his goal, but he still paid no attention to the balance problem, which could very well cost him his dinner... Once again.
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Post by Emiko on Jun 11, 2022 23:08:14 GMT -6
Funny as it was to say, the only reason Emiko hadn't tried to hurt Kaa was because she was never really given the opportunity to do so, yet. In their initial encounter, the best she could do was yell at him before succumbing to a trance herself. And ever since then, the python had the upper hand on her even going so far as to lead her into his coils in just her own sleep! Even still, Emiko wasn't the type of person to harm anyone even if it came down to it. So...for her to be considerate of the snake, especially in trance, it made sense.
Speaking of the trance, Emiko was so deep at this point that...she'd do practically anything that the snake desired of her. That was true to the point that when he told her to go to sleep, her body would find a way to plunge even deeper into slumber if that were even possible. While this happened, the snake made her a promise to take her somewhere warmer. While Emiko didn't know where this 'place' was, she felt so warm and fuzzy inside. In her silly mind, Kaa was so nice to her making her sleep, and looking out for her so much that he wanted to make sure she was in the best place possible. Somehow, those thoughts made her smile and blush deeply with thoughts of never wanting to leave his coils.
Unfortunately for her and Kaa...that was not likely to be the case anymore. For as Kaa pushed his coils just that little more towards the right, the threat that had been building finally happened. The cocoon of coils containing Emiko's body slipped right over the branch, and sent her tumbling down to the pull of gravity...
Thankfully for Kaa, and Emiko both, the bundle would only travel so far down before coming to a hard plop on a branch or two down. Emiko would land in a horizontal position with a rather hard thud on the branch. Thankfully the coils protected her body from any major impacts, but the crash - far to swift for Kaa to prevent - was strong enough to jar her from her trance. And despite still being in the coils, Emiko was immediately freed where she began to shake her head and look around somewhat confused...
"O-ouch... Ow-ow-ow... W-what happened?" She'd question curiously, forcing herself to sit upright in the mound and look about in a bit of shock. "...Where am I...? How did...I get here?"
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on Jun 11, 2022 23:21:18 GMT -6
Kaa was already planning what to do next; he was about to lift the Emiko cocoon up in the air, rotate her to a perfect position, and put her in a "warm place". But eventually, he pushed his luck too much, and it was time for him to get a bitter taste of defeat... Again.
He only had a split second to react when Emiko inevitably went over the tree branch and started to fall down. The snake didn't even have time to adjust her sleeping form or even let out a scream for that matter. Fortunately, the fall was cut short by another branch below, so Emiko was safe. The snake's coils provided a good protection due to how thick and comfortable they were.
But the same could not be said about Kaa himself. Just as the Emiko cocoon toppled over, he followed next. If only he had bothered to wrap a coil or two around the tree branch above, nothing of this would have happened. But now it was too late to change that. The serpent landed on another branch, just below Emiko. But while the Japanese girl started to wake up, Kaa was experiencing the exact opposite - the fall appeared to have knocked him out... For the time being, but not for long. He could recover at any moment...
His coils began to weaken around Emiko's half-awake form, but something worse for Kaa was happening to Selena below. Some coils below her began to follow Kaa as he fell, and soon enough the village girl would be on the jungle floor, the pile of coils she was lying on slowly left, like a sweet dream coming to an abrupt end.
And this was Kaa's own fault.
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Post by Emiko on Jun 28, 2022 18:58:00 GMT -6
Neither Emiko, nor Selena were aware of what was going on as it all unfolded. And needless to say, it unfolded very quickly. The times in which the two girls met their respective hard landings did vary, but their reaction in the end was more or less the same.
Emiko, being the first one to make contact on the ground had already been waking up from her trance by the time Kaa knocked himself out. The coils around her body instantly loosened allowing her to easily push herself to sit more upright letting what little remained around her body to slide off into a large mound resting at her hips. In a bit of a daze, she was able to shake her head free of the trance. However...the sound of something below was what really caught her attention.
Hearing a yelp of sorts, Emiko looked down to see Selena falling down and making her own hard landing on the jungle floor below. The blow, while not hurtful, did bring out a girlish yelp of shock. And moments later upon making contact with the ground, Selena as well forced herself to sit up in a clear daze... Poor Selena, having fallen rather recently when compared to Emiko was...somewhat more lost in her daze that her friend was. But by this point, Emiko was starting to piece together what was going on. Especially after seeing the mound around her body.
She didn't know how it happened, but...it was pretty obvious to her that Kaa had somehow hypnotized them AGAIN. Considering Selena's current placement outside of snake coils, and Emiko's own within a now unraveled cocoon, it sank in pretty quick that Kaa had gotten to Emiko first. She felt embarrassed realizing that, wondering just how long she had been in a trance. Long enough, obviously... However Kaa had worked to go after her first before going after Selena... What he had done wasn't...100% clear, but Emiko had seen enough to figure out what it was.
Having had her fill with this snake, Emiko did her best to maneuver herself out of the unraveled coils. It took a bit of effort, and a decent amount of time, but did manage to free herself. A moment later, she made the short climb down towards the ground, and proceeded to Selena's side to check on her friend. All this only took a few minutes at most, and by the time Emiko came to kneel at Selena's side, her friend was now more awake than not. Even still, Emiko took the time to check on her well being. Despite the danger just behind, and above them...
"...Selena, are you all right? You look like you took a nasty fall there..."
"...Ow...y-yeah, I'm ok..." Selena answered, taking time to look herself over for any cuts or wounds from the fall off of Kaa's body. Thankfully, aside from some skinned palms, she was otherwise fine... "...No serious injuries or anything. Just a bit groggy and a little out of it..." For a moment, Selena paused, and shifted her gaze to the noticeable body of coils laying just beside her and frowned. "...Looks like that snake broke his promise... He got us again, didn't he...?"
"...Yeah, he did..." Emiko replied, letting out a sigh as she shifted her focus to the same limp coils that Selena's eyes were on. "...I don't know how he did it, but...he did... I think he hypnotized me first, and then came after you... You were just laying on his body when he fell. I was in a whole cocoon... In the end, I think we lucked out..."
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on Jun 29, 2022 5:37:39 GMT -6
Just then the two heard a groan of pain. Still wrapped around the tree branches with his limp body, Kaa began to come back to his senses. His yellow eyes slowly opened, but due to all daze he suffered during the fall, he did not even notice his former captives on the jungle ground, below his tree. Rather, he decided to look around in a dizzy state while trying to figure out just what exactly happened.
At first, there was a literal chaos in his mind - many thoughts were mixed together in one single knot that was tricky to untie. All the events that led to this encounter, Kaa hypnotizing Emiko after tricking her into sleepwalking towards his tree, then hypnotizing Selena and finally... an unlucky fall indirectly caused by Kaa and, by extension, Emiko herself. The pieces soon came back together, but the python still did not get the clue. It was like... the serpent still believed he was in control of the entire situation.
He was not.
Only when he felt nothing but empty air inside of what used to be Emiko's cocoon (as well as nothingness on his pile of coils that used to keep Selena up) did Kaa realize that something was wrong. Once he looked down, his worst fear came true. Selena and Emiko were free from his control, both mental and physical... and their trust in him was severely damaged, as far as it seemed. But in spite of all that, the serpent still expected to weasel his way out of this situation, just like he did before. With his luck turning against him at the last second, Kaa was hoping to get it back by... improvising. He knew neither girl would have a good opinion of him afterwards, but nonetheless he decided to give a try. This could worsen his situation if it failed, but it was still worth a try... at least from Kaa's own point of view.
"I... I am sssorry..."
This fake apology was only a part of a half-hearted gambit on the snake's part. His yellow eyes began to slowly dissipate into a fiery range of colors again, except... thanks to his earlier knockout (which was caused by Kaa's own recklessness) his hypnotic power could not even be ramped up properly. The snake was at his most vulnerable, and his attempt at drawing the girls back into his coils could be intercepted in many ways. Be it a pile of coils which was still near Selena, or perhaps something lightweight to pick up from the ground and throw in his direction...
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Post by Emiko on Jul 2, 2022 12:34:33 GMT -6
Thankfully for Kaa, Emiko and Selena were too busy talking amongst each other to hear his groans of pain up above. For the moment, they were oblivious to the fact that the snake had just woken up from only the briefest stint in unconsciousness. And...they remained that way even as Kaa made sense of what had occurred while also planning how to turn this situation around. Their own obliviousness was certainly advantageous to the snake giving him something of an element of surprise. However, he'd find that he'd have a bit more of that advantage than he might have realized.
Perhaps the biggest factor playing into Kaa's coils aside from the girl's obliviousness to Kaa's state of being was the their lack of foresight and clear cognitive function. Having both just woken up from a rather deep trance, the two girls in this moment were more focused on getting their bearings together and making sense of what happened. That, instead of taking the opportunity to get up and get moving, was their primary focus. And, while the snake wasn't at his strongest, the drowsiness and fog the trance provided were still within the two women meaning that...they weren't at their strongest either...
Despite the overall situation, when Kaa decided to try and improvise to turn this situation again back in his favor, he'd find that his advance yet again would be met with mixed results...
At first, his hissing apology would cause Selena and Emiko to react in the same sort of way... Both women were still on the ground with Selena sitting up to look forward at Emiko who had been kneeling at her side doing the same thing to Selena. Kaa's apology caused both Emiko and Selena to freeze with their eyes to go wide with shock. A second or so later, the two women would slowly turn towards the source of the voice slowly. And it was upon seeing Kaa with his eyes alight with spirals where their reactions differed dramatically...
Understanding the dangers Kaa's eyes possessed from basically childhood into her adulthood, and even having experienced it first hand TWICE now, Selena didn't give Kaa the chance to get closer or work his magic... She immediately covered her eyes with her hands and rolled away from Emiko and the serpent. A second later, she forced herself to her feet and ran to a nearby tree taking cover behind it. She wasn't far away by any means, but...knew she needed to take shelter to regain her full mental capacity... Just a few moments to gather herself, and she'd be ok to act.
Emiko however...was a slightly different story. Knowing the danger Kaa possessed, she initially reacted the same way by standing to her feet and attempting to flee from the snake. But...she no more than took a few steps when she just...froze. She didn't know where to go for cover and spent valuable time 'looking' for a way to flee. But her inexperience along with the darkness made moving in ANY direction a gamble she couldn't instinctively take without fear... So...her fear of the 'unknown' kept her present. But it did more than that...
As Emiko was constantly glancing about, her eyes repeatedly shifted from darkness, to Kaa's lite eyes, and repeated... Her first few glances at the snake's eyes were swift glances barely giving Kaa the time of day. But each time her vision saw the rings, even as weak as they were, they'd remain and lag from shifting away. At first, this resulted in her going from glancing at moments to looking at seconds at a time. Long enough though...she'd find herself a bit more magnetized... And within just a few minutes, having no where to go or...even look, poor Emiko just stood there now looking back where...the snake's eyes seemed to soothe her worries and fears... What...was she trying to flee from again...?
"...You...You're sorry...?" Emiko asked, suddenly remembering what the snake had apologized for... Somehow, the view of the snake's eyes in the darkness made her want to understand why he was sorry and...hear his side of the story...
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on Jul 2, 2022 12:58:54 GMT -6
It seemed that luck was on Kaa's side once more, and after such an unexpected turn of events which led to both girls being released from the serpent's coils and trance, this could be considered a miracle. While Kaa's goal to draw both women to his gaze succeeded only partially, it could have very well ended in a complete failure.
With Selena once again being out of Kaa's focus, the python decided to turn his hypnosis on Emiko once more. He remembered what he tried to do during the first encounter, and as such he wanted to repeat the formula with some changes. Namely, he had a bit more freedom to move around despite still recovering from being briefly knocked out.
"I am ssso sssorry... For letting you and your friend ssslip out of my coilsss. I made... a misstake, and you ended up on the ground by accident... But don't worry, Emiko... I think I know a way to fix thiss issssue"
This was another lie on Kaa's part, but the python was confident that his verbal tricks and traps could eventually make up for his soiled plans.
"Ssso... Would you like to come clossser...? I know, you still want to sssleep after ssso much trouble... Why don't you persuade your friend into coming back?"
Deep inside, Kaa was still hoping to lull Selena into the same false security as Emiko, and even though he still was not sure whether or not this tactic could work, it was still worth a try.
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Post by Emiko on Jul 2, 2022 13:29:24 GMT -6
Emiko knew the dangers Kaa possessed, and there was a still, small voice practically yelling at her to act. It tried to get her to move, fight, look away...to do SOMETHING before it was too late. But for whatever reason...Emiko's susceptibility to the hypnosis along with a strange curiosity that seemed to steadily grow kept her put... It...allowed the python to not only get a little closer, but caused Emiko to actually hear him out... A massive mistake...
Emiko heard the python apologize for something other than what she was certain he'd actually apologize for. Rather than say he was sorry for hypnotizing her and Selena, he apologized for letting her slip out of his coils. He claimed to make a mistake and that this was all an accident. Admittedly, this did send more red flags through Emiko's systems as her mind pieced together the lie behind the words. And yet...
Despite what Emiko consciously figured, the spirals that flew through Kaa's eyes made her feel a bit more compelled to feel and think otherwise. She honestly couldn't explain it...how, despite mostly knowing the truth, she felt sorry for Kaa and heard a genuine 'sorry' out of him. Perhaps it was the rings more, but...she felt compelled to forgive him. And...even as he coaxed her to come closer offering a way to 'fix this', she couldn't help but indulge him.
Against her better judgement, Emiko did start to take slow, timid steps forward towards the python. Her eyes never once left Kaa's as she approached him, and the closer she got those rings, the more potent they were on her body. Enough so that when Kaa stated that he knew a way to 'fix' things and insisted that she wanted to sleep, she grew curious... In that moment, she did feel an inkling to call out to Selena, but held off...wanting to understand...
"...You know...of a way to...to fix this...? You know that...I want to sleep still...?" Emiko asked curiously, almost blindly still taking those careful steps forward... "...How can you...fix this...? And how...do you know that...I'm sleepy still...?"
...Hearing the conversations happening between Emiko and Kaa, Selena, who was still hiding away, understood that Kaa had to have gotten to her again. She let out a sigh understanding how serious this was and tried to take deep breaths to clear her mind enough to think. She knew she had to do something to stop Kaa, but was still too foggy at the moment to come up with anything. She needed a few more moments before she could act. Unfortunately...those were moments that pushed Emiko further into danger...
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Post by dukenukem4ever2 on Jul 2, 2022 14:10:44 GMT -6
"Indeed, you want to sssleep, Emiko. Come clossser, and sstep right up" - it happened the second time in the span of the night. Kaa was going to snatch Emiko up just like he did before, after having her unwittingly sleepwalk right under his tree. Except this time, he added his own colorful eyes to the mix, not that it would hurt him or Emiko in any way. The brown snake's head began to sway again in a smooth, enthralling dance, his colorful eyes were shining like a light in the end of the tunnel. It seemed like a salvation, the best way out of any trouble.
Unaware of Selena trying to think up a way in a safe spot, the jungle snake continued his charade. "You are ssstill ssleepy, I can sssenssse it. I bet you are feeling a bit less comfortable outsside of my coilsss... Would you like to ssnuggle back in my sscalesss... and take a good, well-desserved resssst?"
"Pleasse ssstep up, don't be afraid of me... And sssay... Would you like to be back in my warm coil bed?" - the large serpent then leaned up, his gaze shining down on Emiko's face. He decided to not go for physical coiling yet, believing this could raise more red flags inside of her mind. "I am your friend, Emiko, right? Ssshould I try and at leassst provide you ssome comfort?" - these words came off as soothing, something a caring friend would say. But of course, Kaa was anything but. He was using his earlier manipulations, as well as his hypnotic rings, to his advantage.
The snake's coils once again started to pile up near the stone slab, always ready to abduct Emiko up in the treetops. It really seemed like the earlier kidnapping attempt was a mere rehearsal and this time it was a real act. Unfortunately, said act could get torn to pieces by Selena's intervention, to whom Kaa still failed to pay proper attention... nor that he really could do anything, honestly. All he cared about was getting Emiko back into his grasp. As for Selena... she could wait, he thought. Whether or not the villager decided to ditch Emiko or remained hidden to strike out at the best possibility, Kaa did not even bother thinking about that. His own recklessness started to show itself again, and the consequences it could cause would be quite... unpleasant, to say the least.
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