Though she had made it look easy before, Shanai took the ascent slow and with care. She wasn’t entirely certain what she’d find up past the rustling leaves, and couldn’t see as well in the deepening dark for knots in the trunk to grip. She huffed, hoping she wouldn’t need to test the strength of her makeshift cord. About halfway up, the blonde paused, straining to listen. She thought that she could make out wordless sounds, the faint moaning of a familiar voice. She tensed – Rina was up there, she knew now – and something was happening to her. Ignoring an inexplicable wave of déjà vu, Shanai continued her steady scrabble up the trunk.

The moaning grew louder as she neared the leaves, sounding more and more to Shanai like pleasure, rather than pain or fear. She flushed, her mind immediately coming to the conclusion that Rina had wanted some privacy. She had nearly decided to climb back down and wait for her friend to finish, when the unmistakable sounds of another voice spoke. It was sibilant, with a strange speech pattern, but somehow rather seductive. There was something familiar about it, but Shanai couldn’t think what that could be.

Is Rina watching a video? No, her phone’s dead. Could there be someone up there, somehow…with her?

A sudden fire coursed through Shanai, a surprising pang of jealousy that overrode her caution. Ignoring the voice in her head that urged her to wait and listen, she reached out, grabbing for a lower-hanging branch and pulling herself up into the canopy. The muffled voices grew louder as she went, practically swimming through the thick mass of leaves. Emerging onto a bare patch sandwiched between the green, she pulled herself up onto a sturdy branch and stopped short, mouth agape.

A fully naked Rina floated a few feet above the branch, straddling the coils of a large python, her hands gripping the sides as if she were riding a horse bareback.

The length of coil thickened past her legs, twisting down and wrapping around the branch below for support. Rina’s ‘seat’ shifted back and forth with a sliding motion between her legs, her hips grinding against it in obvious pleasure. Behind her, the coils slid up the small of her back, wrapping back and over her midsection just below the left breast, then diving in between and over her right. Shanai’s eyes traced the path as it disappeared around Rina’s shoulder before slithering up on the over her collarbone and encircling the woman’s neck in a tight collar of muscle. The very tip of the tail emerged from behind her head, pulling back messy bangs in an almost gentle manner.

Bound in the stimulating, scaly embrace, Rina somehow looked like she was enjoying the experience. She stared ahead with a wide, open-mouthed smile, panting heavily as she ground her hips. Her wide eyes seemed to practically glow in the darkness of the secluded canopy. Her serpentine captor’s large spade-shaped head loomed over her, head turned away from Shanai to focus on the beauty in his coils.

Shanai turned beet-red, steam practically issuing from her ears. Whatever she had been expecting, this was as far from it as possible. Utterly dumbstruck, she voiced her immediate reaction, before clapping a hand to her mouth far too late.

“What the F@&K??”

The snake’s head turned, a strangely humanlike expression of surprise on its features. Dread stole into Shanai, her heart pounding faster. She looked around desperately for something, anything she could use for a weapon. Not wanting to take her eyes off the perverted python for long in case he chose to attack, she glanced back to notice he’d slithered uncomfortably closer.

“Good evening Ssshanai.” The familiar voice regarded her blithely.

She blinked. Did he just? How does he know-?

A flash of recognition, a whirl of color, and she recognized him!

“Wait-Kaa? You-you’re…I know you!”

“Why yess, I believe we are acquainted. Ssso niccsse to ssee you again~” The serpent replied with a taunting politeness as he slithered closer.

“How-okay, okay, that doesn’t matter,” Shanai took a breath to clear her head; fear, confusion, and an odd sensation like butterflies in her stomach were all fighting for control within her. “I wish I could say the same, but you’ve got my friend in your coils! What are you DOING to her??”

Kaa glanced back, seemingly just noticing the hypnotized woman bound salaciously in his coils. He raised his neck and made a shrugging motion. Shanai blinked, and shook her head, the feeling of déjà vu returning.

“Oh, nothing ssshe didn’t want for herssself. But if the noissse iss bothering you…”

Kaa clapped his tail over Rina’s mouth, lowering her slowly to the branch. Her eyes, which Shanai now saw were actually rippling with rings of color, fluttered, and closed. But for the coils around her, she looked comfortably and peacefully asleep.

Kaa returned his gaze to the blonde, eyes shining with amusement. “Or iss it…” He slithered past her as he spoke; Shanai raised her arms defensively. “You sssimply wissshed…” his head turned, circling back around to her other side. “…to join her?” he grinned, bringing his head back around to her front. Shanai had whipped her head around to track his movement, and was slow to realize he’d surrounded her. She flushed hot, embarrassment and anger overriding her fear.

“Ugh! I wouldn’t be caught dead in your slimy coils!” She threw back at him. “And I KNOW you did something to Rina – there’s no way she’d agree to, to…” she flapped her hand in the other woman’s direction, then turned away, face burning.

Kaa merely chuckled at her, an irritating hissing sound that tickled at her eardrums. “Perhapsss you don’t know your…friend as well as you thought?”

Shanai scowled, picking up on the emphasis. She crossed her arms, all but forgetting her fear of a few minutes ago, regarding Kaa like an overly-gossipy acquaintance. “And what exactly would you know about me and Rina?”

Sstill rather prickly…but not for long, the serpent’s grin widened.

“Why, your feelingss for her, of courssse! You told me jussst how hopelessly ssmitten you are, my dear Sshanai…don’t you remember?”

The color left Shanai’s face. There was no way – she’d never told anyone how she’d felt about Rina, let alone some jungle snake she couldn’t even recall meeting. Come to think of it, how had she met Kaa? And when? Last night, perhaps? Why couldn’t she remember?

Kaa watched in amusement at her obvious confusion. She’d responded wonderfully to the previous night’s suggestions so far. Perhaps the time had come to give her mind a little push.

“No need to worry, I won’t reveal your sssecret…after all, you were ssso comfortable in my coils…” He began, letting the floating length behind the bewildered blonde drape softly over her shoulders.

Shanai tensed as the sudden weight settled onto her. Contrary to her assertions, the feeling of the scales was smooth and soft, almost nice. But there was no way she was going to admit that. She opened her mouth to retort.

“…you must have jussst let it…ssslip.” Kaa finished.

Shanai’s face softened, her scowl melting into a placid expression. A few rings of color flashed through her eyes, all in a fraction of a second. She suddenly shook her head, feeling like she’d reached the top of a staircase and carelessly raised her foot for a step that wasn’t there.

What was that? And why was I so tense? she thought, letting her shoulders relax as the weight of the coils pressed lightly onto them. It felt nice, she had to admit. “All right Kaa, let’s say I believe you, and Rina asked you to, well—do that.” She looked away, bringing a hand up to stroke the soft scales idly, the shadow of a blush stealing into her cheeks once more. “So, what then?” She finally continued. “You’re not planning to, like, eat her, or something like that…are you?” She fixed him with a scrutinizing look.

“Of courssse not!” Kaa let out an exaggerated huff. “Ssshe is my guessst; and knowing your feelings for her-” he paused, noting how her grip momentarily tightened, “I sssimply could never. But am I detecting a little…sslip of jealousy?” He added, watching the tense stare dissolve into spirals once more.

Shanai blinked, the colors vanishing as quickly as they’d come, along with the remainder of her irritation. “Well, I-” she started, unsure of what to say in reply. The shifting coils weighed on her shoulders, their passage like a pleasant massage. She relaxed into them, sighing contentedly. “I guess I am, a little. Jealous, I mean.” She admitted with a sheepish grin, running her fingers across the scales as they slid over her shoulder, curling softly around her forearm.

Kaa smiled warmly. “Well, my ssweet Sshanai, asss you can sssee, there iss plenty of me to go around. Why not join your friend in blisss?”

“W-well, that’s not exactly what I-” Shanai stammered, heat rising in her cheeks again. Distracted, she hadn’t noticed more coils sliding down from the boughs above.

“Nonsssensse…” Kaa interrupted, drawing closer, his eyes beginning to swirl with familiar colors. “I’m sssertain you’ll love it, almosst as much asss her.”

Shanai glanced over at Rina; her tousled hair falling over her beautiful face, smiling blissfully as she sat, semi-bound in the grip of the seductive snake. The blonde bit her lip. Something in her -- a faint voice in the back of her mind -- urged her to resist. A shred of doubt flickered across her face. “N-no, Kaa, I c-can’t…” she stammered, moving to step back, turning her head away from the serpent and scrunching her eyes closed.

“Look me in the eye, when I’m ssspeaking to you, Ssshanai.” Kaa hissed, his tone calm yet commanding. Coils shifted and twisted, the length over her shoulders starting to pull her head back towards his in a gentle but firm tug. Shanai hesitated, unsure why her heart was fluttering. Somewhere deep within her mind, another voice spoke, stirred by her most secret desires. It sounded much like her own, but breathier and sibilant, as though she’d chosen to mimic Kaa’s own speech patterns.

It'sss allright, you can trussst Kaa…

Rina looks perfectly sssafe and comfortable...

You could join her ssso easssily…

As the words echoed, the voice of resistance grew fainter and fainter, its pleas drowned out. Shanai felt her resolve weakening.

An echo of her dream – a vision of Rina dancing for her amongst the snake’s coils flashed into her mind’s eye. She watched as her friend shimmied and swayed, honey-brown eyes gleaming with impish delight. The dream-Rina raised her arm and turned her palm upward in one fluid movement, beckoning to Shanai in an unmistakable ‘come hither’ motion. A full-body shiver shot through the blonde like lightning, her resistance crumbling.

Maybe just…a peek?

Cautiously, she opened one eye, meeting Kaa’s hypnotic gaze almost instantly. His snout was inches away from her face, having sneakily slithered closer as she demurred. Shanai’s mouth opened in surprise, her eye locked onto the pulsing colors; a familiar array of mesmerizingly deep blues, bright purples, and vibrant yellows. She stared, transfixed as her pupil shrunk down to nothing, quickly replaced by mirrored rings that threatened to overwhelm her remaining senses.

“I-ahhh…” Shanai stuttered.

“Ah-ah…Both eyes, if you pleassse…” Kaa intoned.

“Y-yess, Kaa…” the words came to her lips automatically, without any conscious thought. Shanai couldn’t think why she’d said them. She was having a hard time thinking at all, her head swimming from the rush of colors.

Maybe…I should just…

Listen…

To Kaa…

Her other eye creaked open, finding the serpent’s at once. The colors intensified, filling her entire vision. Shanai’s mouth hung open as her remaining pupil disappeared, replaced by endless rings of blue, yellow and purple. A familiar feeling of bliss spread throughout her body. The spirals were all she could see, all she wanted to see. Why had she ever resisted this? Kaa had been right, this felt wonderful. A smile tugged at her lips. A satisfied serpentine voice floated into her ears.

“Good girl~”

PING!

Shanai stood stock-straight, her arms snapping firmly to her sides like she’d just been jolted. Her spiraling eyes stared blankly ahead, joined by a wide, placid smile. Her mind emptied of all worry, all thought; she knew nothing, except for the complete pleasure she felt in obeying the serpent’s every whim.

Kaa hissed in delight. He hadn’t planned on Shanai waking up and discovering them, but the last night’s lingering influence had been enough to coax her right back into his coils. He began to shift his bulk, looping a thicker set around Rina and pulling her closer to him. Glancing between the at-attention blonde and her sleeping dark-haired friend, Kaa grinned mischievously.

“You poor things, hopelessly lossst in this vasst jungle…” he shook his head in mock concern. “I can help you…I’ll keep you both sssaafe and sssound…”

Sidling up now to Shanai, he whispered into her ear, tail teasing at her tattered choli. “Now then, there’ss no need for such modesssty in the jungle. Remove thessse ‘clothess’, pleasse.” She nodded dreamily, her hands obediently reaching to slide off the ripped remains of her skirt and top.

“And for the ressst,” Kaa prodded at her bra, “allow mee..” he curled around it and gave a tug, the Velcro strap coming free with a slight ripping sound. As the bra fell to the ground below, the snake continued, sliding his tail down between her exposed breasts. Shanai let out a small, involuntary gasp as a shiver ran down her spine. Kaa smirked, caressing her midriff and pausing to trace a circle around her navel. Continuing on, her drew a line down into her panties and gently tugged them down to the blonde’s ankles.

“Yess, that’s much better. Now, thisss way…” Kaa beckoned, leading the now-naked woman further in, towards his waiting coils…

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Rina and Shanai sat opposite each other astride the branch, their hypnotized grins a perfect mirror as they gazed blankly into one another’s spiraling eyes.

“You know, it iss ssaid that ssstaring into the eyesss of another, for even a ssshort time, isss enough to…fall in love.” Kaa mused aloud. His head floated around them, taking in every inch of their sumptuous curves. “I musst say, it’ss a wonderful view, either way…” He chuckled. The serpent’s tail descended from the branch, sliding over the bewitched beauties, encircling a waist here, an ankle there. On it went, binding each woman’s wrists together, and deftly lifting their arms overhead.

“Now then, my ssweeet Ssshanai,” Kaa tickled her ear with his tongue. “Asss promissed, I won’t reveal your little ssssecret…” He hissed devilishly, looping his continually-winding tail back to cup the woman’s chin. “But perhapsss you will…”

Shanai’s face flushed through the haze of her trance. Opposite her Rina stared, oblivious. Kaa shifted his coils, pulling the two closer, whispering suggestions of seductive encouragement. Their smiling faces were centimeters away from one another, noses nearly tip to tip. Kaa gave each a well-placed squeeze, eliciting a perfectly harmonious twin moan. Shanai’s head tilted forward. Her lips met Rina’s. The raven-haired woman leaned into the kiss, her tongue seeking Shanai’s with surprising heat. The blonde replied in kind, her long-hidden longing finding an outlet at last.

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Moans and sighs echoed from the canopy of Kaa’s tree. Well hidden amongst the boughs and leaves, his guests were thoroughly enjoying themselves. Rina was held suspended, secured by coils encircling under her breasts and around her left thigh. The opposite ankle was bound as well, held by two loops that stretched her bare legs open. Shanai’s face buried itself between her thighs, the sounds of her teasing and tasting drowned out by Rina’s increasingly desperate cries of passion. Around her neck looped a collar of coils, which wound down and around her hips, before snaking its way back towards its owner. Kaa lay back against the tree trunk, watching with equal parts lazy amusement and satisfaction.

“AH-ahhh…AAAHHHHHH!!!!” Rina cried, the crescendo of her pleasure reaching its apex. Her fingers twitched in coiled cuffs as she panted, hypnotically swirling eyes rolled back in her head. Her back arched as much as she could manage in Kaa’s grip, body shuddering in pleasure. Slowly, the wave receded, and she stilled, mouth curling once more into a satisfied, submissive smile. With a slight tug on her collar, Shanai’s face emerged, her eager tongue lapping up the remainder of Rina’s pleasure as she was pulled up into a kneeling position.

“Hmhmm, very good, Ssshanai.” Kaa patted his smiling slave on the head. “Perhapsss there’ss something of a ssserpent in you, with the way you usssse that tongue of yoursss,” he joked, the coils encircling her waist sliding down to caress each toned calf. “Now then, I think that performanssse deservesss…a reward, don’t you think?” He waited a moment, then chuckled. “Ahh, that’ss right, you don’t think…not anymore…”

Coils shifted and slid, maneuvering the two spellbound sweethearts into opposite positions. Shanai’s sleepy eyes fluttered as the snake softly wound around her left leg, sliding open her thighs. Suddenly her collar tightened; she gave a strangled gulp, eyes shooting open.

“That’ssss better, my ssssweet Ssshanai. You can sssleeep sssoon enough, but first…” Kaa turned and whispered something into Rina’s ears; they burned red as the woman nodded sleepily. Kneeling in front of Shanai’s waiting flower, Rina gripped the blonde’s posterior with both hands and lowered her head, lips parted.

The song of Shanai’s sexual exhilaration carried far into the jungle night.

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At long last, the jungle had fallen silent…mostly. Up in Kaa’s tree, the two exhausted women lay cuddled together, a mass of coils curled around them from neck to toe. Rina’s head drooped on Shanai’s shoulder, her sex-tousled hair pressed flat against the blonde’s cheek. An infrequent snuffle or snore escaped from one or another of the girls as they snuggled closer together, hands intertwined in Kaa’s embrace.

The serpent himself snoozed close by, coils piled haphazardly under his head for a pillow. The three slept peacefully, each sated or elated in their own way. Out of nowhere, a resounding CRACK rent the air. Kaa blinked an eye open wearily. Strange, he thought. His tree seemed to have tilted sideways.

Wait…

OH C*$--

The massive python and his two coiled-up captives fell, the branch having finally snapped under their collective weight. Kaa looked down, just in time for the sturdier section the girls had initially climbed to meet the midsection of his lengthy body. He reacted on instinct, curling around the lower branch as hit it, somewhat cushioning the landing. His neck rolled forward, continuing to wrap around the branch faster than he’d intended, until—

*SMACK*

Running out of slack, he collided with the wood snout-first.

“owohhh…my s-ssinusses…” Kaa mumbled, stars dancing in his vision, before he collapsed unconscious.

The other half of Kaa’s body continued to fall. Reaching the end of its slack the tail went taut, and Rina & Shanai’s coil cocoon began to rapidly unwind. As it unraveled completely, the two girls were sent spinning like a yo-yo. Shanai’s sleepy eyes snapped open, grabbing a falling Rina by the forearm before she even understood what was happening. She blinked, wondering why everything had turned upside down.

The world slowly came into vertiginous focus: Shanai was suspended by her ankle, a knotted snake’s tail holding her about six feet off the ground. She shook her head, trying to clear it of the strange, euphoric colors she’d been dreaming about, and wondered how in the world they’d ended up in a situation like this. Holding tight, she called to her friend, shaking her arm as lightly as possible, in case the serpentine cord gave way.

“Rina? Rina, wake up!!”

“Mm-wha?” Came the sleepy reply, shortly followed by a yelp. “Shanai?? What the hell is going on??”

“I don’t know, but we’ve got to get down and get out of here. I’m going to let go of your arm, then you’ve got to catch me, okay?

“Uh, O-okay…!”

Shanai let go, and Rina landed on the ground with a thump. She rubbed her rear for a moment, then scrambled to her feet to signal for Shanai. The blonde had bent forward, using every muscle in her core to hold herself steady as she untied the knot of coils suspending her. With a burst of effort she freed herself, falling immediately onto her friend, the pair tumbling into a leafy patch of brush.

Adrenaline still pounding, they picked themselves up, dusting off loose dirt and brambles, thankful for only a few minor scratches and bumps. Not stopping to speculate on what had happened, Shanai quickly scooped up a pile of discarded clothes nearby, and grabbing Rina’s hand, the two women sped off into the night.