Gwen was trying to pay little attention to the noise of the jungle or even the sweltering heat of the jungle, so she didn't notice any especially odd rustling of the branch leaves above her as Kaa the python lowered his head behind the girl in order to bring his head directly on her level ready to trap her under his spell with ease.
"Magic, wassss it?" He questioned politely.
Not expecting to hear a word of English, Gwen was so startled that even her grasp of the book became loose as it was almost thrown from her hand.
It'd have been alarming enough if the stranger behind her was a human, but seeing a python that's coils appeared to stretch endlessly up in the branches above, most of it nearly as wide as herself.
She had the reactionary prowess to evade if the snake went for a sudden bite, but she wasn't ignorant on how pythons typically caught and killed their prey, if any loop of this python grasped any body part, she could be held in place and ultimately be completely entwined in the snakes body, before being actually inside it.
Still though, was this the animal that talked? Was it magic? Was it an alien?
"Are you perhapsss a witch?" Kaa continued prodding.
"N-No. Well... Not exactly." Gwen answered cautiously. Shifting her gaze continiously at Kaa's head but also the branches directly above, she suspected foul play off the get go and believed the snake was only distracting her to sneak attack with a dropped coil or the tail itself.
"Hmph." Kaa muttered. "I ssssuppose that's why you don't have a familiar."
"A familiar what?" Gwen questioned. Still alert.
"A Familiar, an animal companion to accompany you on your magical trails and trialssss. Mossst settle for catss or crows. Do you think a python would be a much better companion." Finishing the sentence by cocking his head to his right to focus his left eye on the vulnerable prey as if to genuinely be wanting to hear her answer.
"I-I don't know. Maybe." Gwen answered, once again making a quick glance up and around to look for any signs of sneakiness on the serpents part, whilst also kicking her foot around to try and feel for that dropped magic book so she could pick it up without taking her eyes off for long.
"But I'm not a Witch." She continued, "And I don't need one."
Kaa giggled. "Well perhaps, you would want to BE one?"
Gwen furrowed a brow in confusion, before she had the second to figure out what he meant exactly, Kaa worked his own magic on his mind instantly.
It was already confusing enough for Gwen to be speaking to a rock python, but at least she had a long vacation of Alien sightings and other paranormal activity to make it almost mundane.
Once the bright lights emitted from his eyes, her mind was puzzled, and not all focused on the eyes themselves.
Rather, Gwens perception of all things around her was distorting. The touch of the dirt and grass beneath her feet, the warm temperature in the surrounding area, the ocean drops still on her skin, the memories of the Animo's fight from a mere 4 minutes ago.
Even the snake she was being stringed to staring at was being muddled. At least until he spoke.
"Take away your responssssibilities and just, spend the rest of your life, with me." He echoed.
Following that, he bobbed his head in a manner to force her to nod in agreement.
Gwen didn't collapse under just yet though. Being strong of mind and having accumulated a strong sense of survival instinct from her previous battles, Gwen was keeping her mind focused as best as she could despite the lack of experience with this type of hypnosis, with the one instance from Sublimino, albeit with a different method of mind-control.
In fact, were Kaa merely going to attack her mind alone with his eyes, Gwen might even have regained her surroundings, turned her head around and broken from the gaze.
Course, Kaa notices when his catch hasn't grinned a stretched smile in the first 5 second of the spell being caught. The tail Gwen had formerly been cautious of did indeed drop from above, but instead of entangling her in a bind, it sloped on her shoulders and rubbed back and fourth, a snake alternative of a nice hand rub on the back of a good comforting friend.
A good part of Gwens brain still understood she was in danger, but even still, a more logical side of her was debating herself in quicker succession then she was actually processing.
Noticing the snake had the opportunity right then and there to capture her with her being able to put up no resistance, why make such a friendly gesture?
This pondering slowed down her quick pull away, and troubling caused her to get more enticed in the comforting feel of the hypnosis.
The voice of hers that kept reminding her she'd likely be killed if she gave up got quieter and quieter.
How could giving up be so bad, if it felt so good.
PING
She put up a good long mental fight, but without third party interference, she was not getting away from Kaa whilst he believed her to be the tastiest morsal in the approximate area.
"My preccccious little man-cub. So many evil animals in this area would bite or scratch that delicate skin of yours, and I couldn't bare to ssssee my pet harmed to ssssadistically."
He flung his tail around and screwed its shape to look like stairs.
"Come my obedient pet. Lets move this conversssation to the high branches where it's just you and me."
Not exactly trusting Gwen to know where she was stepping given her mental state, plus the fact the surrounding tree's didn't give him the opportunity to twist his tail in the utmost straight pathway, Kaa hanging his head above it and pulled it back so she had a good idea to follow him.
Ah what a great sight it was for Kaa, the visual equal to how she was likely to taste in his stomach.
Seeing his hypnotized meal listen to his word without question, slogging ever so happily to their doom. Even in her completely mind-controlled state, this slave in control of the humans body must surely know how this was going to end, and yet would not wish to be anywhere else when the time came.
His captives could walk 500 miles, and walk 500 more, just to pull themselves into the wet demise of their masters maw.
It was quite the walk up the highest branch. Once reaching the top he commanded Tennyson to close her eyes before bumping her chest with his nose forcing her to lose balance and fall off the tree. Only to be caught in the air by his tail pushing her up with the tip of his tail.
It was hard to believe this was indeed Gwen Tennyson. Above her age in intellect, superhero magician, very acrobatic in combat, having helped Save the Earth and countless lives multiple times along with her family.
Now, Subject to obeying all commands no matter how dangerous, bested by a gentle spell, unable to do complex manoeuvrability, and what little she could manage at a slogged pace.
And merely dinner for a hungry snake.
Granted Kaa didn't know who Gwen was, but likely wouldn't care to spare her anyway.
She was rather small compared to many of the animals Kaa could search for, though quite large for a cub. More importantly very, very tasty.
Kaa had not even touched her skin with his tongue yet, but being an animal of great sense, her merely needed to flicker it close to her to get a strong idea of what he was to expect the very second his mouth started engulfing the poor thing.
And bipedal too, Monkeys and Man just slipped in the stomach so much easier than almost any other animal.
Flipping his tail, he allowed his captive to slide over his belly much like he did with Mowgli quite some time ago, but instead of letting her rest comfortably in a bundle of coils temporarily, Kaa was being quicker with this one and Gwen found her lower half being consumed very quickly by the serpents Maw halfway down.
While Kaa could stretch his maw wide open enough to effortlessly engulf Gwen in one motion, he clamped down just before her entire body sunk in, letting her head and arms dangle out in the open while he licked his tongue across her face. Savouring her taste as much as possible.
So delicious.
He knew he was tempting fate by having the man-cub exposed like this, given his past experience with Mowgli and Shanti. But he didn't care.
And the hypnotized Gwen made no protest or questioned anything. Her master wanted to eat her and she was happy to make him happy.
After savouring the taste long enough, he flung his head upwards and let gravity push Tennyson down his gob. Gwen wormed through his stomach as if it were a slide in a public park, even the twists around the branches hardly altered the speed in which she was sinking through. But ultimately she stopped halfway in.
Once again the hypnosis deep in her brain tricking her senses. For all intensive purposes it was awful for the girl to be in such a dark, smelly, slimy place, with too little wiggle room to not have her warm breathe press against her face. But Gwen felt as comfortable as being under a warm blanket on a soft bed on a cold night.
Although she was never prompted to sleep, her mind became more and more drowsy, and she could help but collapse in her tight space.
Kaa noticed her body abate and stared at that lump in his belly. "Resssst now little witch. You'll never have to worry about any troublesss anymore."
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