The fight was over, but slipping into the cool water to wash off the sweat wasn't enough. Emi was still tired.

Emerging from the pool's water, the jungle girl gasped for air like she hadn't breathed in years. She'd actually been underwater, holding her breath for 30 seconds. Normally, she could hold her breath underwater for much longer (one time, she timed it for two minutes), but not today. Some Russian mafia goons were in the process of trafficking rare and endangered animals off the island. Emphasis on were. She "took care" of them easily. Nearby, the remains of a kennel carrier sat next to a disassembled shotgun. She was too quick for them.

But they were big and ruthless. She punched hard, but they were hard to take down until she started fighting dirty, drawing her knife and slashing their leader's calves. Using a bit of toxin from a local animal, she paralyzed another one--he wasn't here, being dragged off by predators--and broke the third and final one's thigh. All three of them suffered the same fate. She didn't let it get to her, that was life on Pomaika'i, and as daughter of the famous Hulie and Kainak, two jungle-dwellers and modern-day/real-life Tarzan and Jane, the 19-year-old knew that life in the wild was rough.

She stepped out of the pool, toned body glistening with water until she started drying off her slightly-tanned skin. Brown hair reaching down to her shoulder dripped until it too was dried off, framing a round, slender and very pretty face. Brown eyes looked up at the sky and she sighed. Then, she donned her brown-colored animal-skin "standard-issue" jungle girl outfit bikini top and loincloth and sat down at the foot of a tree. Her chest heaved up and down. Her muscles felt like they were on fire. And yet, she couldn't relax, for the adrenaline was still coursing through her blood vessels.

"Luckily", if you want to put it that way, she wasn't alone. Someone was nearby. A snake had heard the commotion, and went to investigate. Kaa, yes, that snake from the novel and movie, who like Mowgli and the Seeonee Wolf Pack, was real, slithered along the branches, tracking the scent of humans and the sounds of fighting. Eventually, he came across the pool and the fight was going on. He instantly grinned when he spotted Emi, one of his favorite subjects for his special trick: Hypnosis. Normally a genius way of catching prey, Kaa could also use it on humans, but he never ate them; he played with them, and she had been one of his favorites. He was narcissistic enough to think that friends could use a little hypnosis. She looked like she needed to be hypnotized, and Kaa was juuuuust the snake to do it!

First, he hissed, loudly, the beginning of his hypnotic process.

The hissing sound caught Emi's attention and she immediately went into surveillance mode. Something was nearby, a snake probably, from the sound of it. Snakes generally did not attack humans. She already knew that, keeping one as a "pet", for lack of a better term in her little tree house not too far away. She liked snakes; how sinuous their bodies were, how their scales felt on skin, and how they could hypnotize. Okay, not every snake on Pomaika'i was capable of such an ability, most were just your normal jungle-variety snake. She had to be cautious, even though that specific snakes species literally couldn't eat humans (they'd gag if they tried), some of them were... not nice.

The one spying on her right now was nice. Helping matters, Kaa had a friendly relationship with her father, who saved his life, Kaa then saved his life in return. Kainak was 18 and had been in the jungle for a year, two years after washing ashore on Pomaika’i. Kaa was fighting a sabre-toothed cat. Kainak intervened, saving Kaa’s life. A couple of weeks later, Kainak was in a fight with some bandits. They were trying to drown him in quicksand. Asking Kai to trust him (they had met before the sabre-tooth fight), Kaa intervened, saving Kainak.

Thus, they began a hypnotic friendship that’s extended to his daughter and two sons. He also has another daughter, but she’s stubborn like her mother, and immune to hypnosis thanks to that. Kaa’s hypnosis worked best/only when the subject wanted to be hypnotized, and Emi always enjoyed it—even if she needed some friendly convincing.

He had slithered across the trees, gradually closing in on her, spotting her emerging from the pool and putting her “clothes” for lack of a better term, back on. He could see the final result of what happened,  being drawn to her location by the sounds of fighting and scuffles. He wore a sly smile on his lips, already planning a special session of hypnosis with her. Surely she would appreciate it. Unspooling his body from above, he lowered the tip of his tail, tapped her shoulder and quickly retreated back into the trees.

Emi's head whipped around, her hair smacking her face, much to her annoyance. Did something just poke her? It definitely confirmed that she wasn't alone. Sinuous flute music played in the background— er, Something changed in the atmosphere, making her feel tightness in her chest. Flashbacks to similar moments with a certain snake right out of The Jungle Book relayed in her memory’s theater, as if she already knew what was coming.Then she heard the voice speaking to her from above.

“Hello, Emi!” the voice called. Startled, she looked up, tripping and landing on her backside. But she sighed, seeing who it was.

"Hi, Kaa," she said.

The snake’s head descended while he chuckled. “Yessssssss, ssssssso nicccccce to ssssssssee you,” he chuckled. He licked the air with his tongue, getting the taste of sweat in them. “Oh. Pardon me, but… it ssssssseemsssss you might be fatigued. Ssssssssomething mmussssst’ve happened? Do you want to talk about it?” He dropped his tail downwards. Touching the ground and making a staircase out of it.

Emi's heart started beating a little faster, her chest tightening. She suspected what Kaa wanted to do, and she was getting a bit excited. She stood up. "Um, I dunno," she said, a little hesitant. Her relationship with Kaa, as shown, was at a point where the snake could hypnotize her right away—the last encounter they had, he hypnotized her right off the bat and turned her into a bat—but she also wanted to be hypnotized on her own terms this time. She was tired, just not that tired.

“You look like you need sssssssssssome ressssssssssst,” he said, drawing his “s’s” out to create some white noise to verbally hypnotize her.

"Rest?" Emi meant that to be sarcastic, but it came out sounding like she was up for it. Her subsequent hesitation didn't help. She knew what he meant by "rest", and it was looking very good. She could sit back, relax, and be blissfully hypnotized by the snake. She looked up at the tail, inviting her. "Gee, I sure hope that tail doesn't pick me up," she said. She meant to say that to herself, but she had said it aloud.

“What?” Kaa asked, looking genuinely hurt. That was bad. “You don’t want my company? Are you afraid of me?”

"I'm not afraid of you," she replied, about to tell him to lift her up, but she saw through his game. This wasn't new, of course. She inherited a quick wit from her mother, the famous "Julie of the Jungle" Vidic. And while Kaa was never successfully able to hypnotize Julie (she was too proud to be hypnotized by him), Emi wanted a good game of wits before getting hypnotized. "Why don't you pick me up yourself!?" she snapped.

“Why don’t you climb up here yourssssself!?” he snapped. He was getting fed up with her sassiness. That’s not to say he didn’t love her for that, he was currently not in a Mood to fight with her. He liked it when she made it easier for him. Sometimes that came after a frustrating mind game or stubbornness. Which is why he just went ahead and hypnotized her the last few times, including tricking her with a “Bugs Bunny” wordplay trick.

"I didn't--I didn't mean it that way," she said. "My legs just hurt!"

“I’m not going to play your game thissss way!” he snapped. “Inssssstead of coming to me, you keep resssisssssting!”

"Okay," she said, "Do I have to ask you, 'Pick me up off the ground yourself' please?" She was sick of this part of the game already. Kaa should've picked her up by now.

“Oh, why didn’t you ssssay ssso?” Kaa chuckled. He tried not to laugh at her scowl and glare, so he lowered his tail down to the ground, where it curled around the top of her thighs and midsection, then lifted her off the ground. Emi did not react, nor did she. She sighed, relieved that this part of the game had finally ended. Darn snake didn't get the message for a good while. At least now she got what she wanted. She still had some mind games left, though, that she knew Kaa would probably enjoy.

Kaa kept his head above the branch, deposited Emi on the branch and brought his head in closer. “There, that’ssssss better,” he said, swinging his head around, moving his body around her. “Let me get a look at you, pleasssssse,” he said.

Kaa’s swinging head almost distracted her, like he was trying to do some pre-hypnosis. However, her mother told her to keep eye contact when talking to someone, so she went along with it. She also remained in her seat, hands folding in her lap, legs kicking air. “I’m alright, she said. “I heard you say something about mobsters?” She wanted to tell the story, just needed to confirm he was interested.

“Oh, sssssorry, I got ahead of mysssssself,” he said. “What happened?”

“Okay, so there was like these bad dudes trapping a rare animal,” she said, putting her dukes up, “And I came down and went POW! punched one of them in the yap! But there were three of them, and they were all bigger than me. But I can use the trees and stuff, so I was FLYIN’ all over the place, beating the snot out of them! And I would’ve done more if some wolves didn’t come along!”

Chuckling, Kaa laid his tail on her shoulders, pulling her closer to him. She was loose in his grip, still grinning from recounting her fight. "That'sssssss my Jungle Girl!" he said, snuggling her cheek. "No foe issssssss a match for you!"

"Hell ya!" she said. "So what about you?"

"Oh, the usssssssual," he said, "Hanging out, having old friendssssssss for dinner." He chuckled at the last part. Oh, he killed himself. Then he noticed she was leaning closer. She was eager to hear more stories, but her wide-eyed gaze interested him.

"Isssssss there ssssssssomething I can help with?" he asked.

"I don't know," she answered. "I'm just kinda tired."

"That fight musssssst've taken a lot out of you," he said.

"Yeah, I need a rest," she replied.

"I can help with that," he said.

"Yeah, I'm sure you could," she replied.

“I can tell you ssssssecretly want to be hypnotizssssssed,” said Kaa.

Emi promptly pointed an angry finger at him. “You can’t tell that, nor can you decide it!” she snapped. She did actually want to be hypnotized. But he was being genuinely creepy, saying something that should not fly in any society.

Aware of the young woman’s strength, Kaa retreated, eyes full of fear. “Right. Sssssorry,” he said. Even hypnotic snakes had to respect women. But he still had to get her under hypnosis, and she was too alert, on edge for him to just straight up shove his face in hers, or else she’d leave.

“You didn’t treat Mowgli like that, did you?” she asked.

“What?! Of courssssssse not!” Kaa replied. He mentally grumbled about the one story. They were mostly right about his hypnotic abilities, just like how Kipling was right about his relationship with the Manling, despite that. But Mr. Disney smeared his good name by making him a creep, in a similar way to how Kipling was wrong that Kaa could not hypnotize the Manling (although Mowgli was immune to his hypnotic dance).

Ah, Mowgli. Kaa could always look back on his fond memories of the Manling. He was quite the delight to hypnotize, often at the end of games, whenever he wanted to or through various other methods. As mentioned, the movie was correct in that he could hypnotize through eye contact, coiling the subject while they were distracted, immobilizing them. The Law of the Jungle prevented him from eating the Manling, but he was far too fond of Mowgli. They enjoyed playing, and Kaa even taught him a few lessons while the Manling was under his spell. But Man eventually encroached upon the jungle, forcing Mowgli to stay with Man, and Kaa to be transported from India when it was under the Raj, to Pomaika’I, an island in the middle of the Pacific, in the 21st Century. Well, as Kaa later found out, he had seen the cartoon, but Kaa did not take orders from anyone. The magician was eventually stopped, and Kaa escaped into the jungle.

There, he found a new home amongst the snakes. He mainly kept to himself until he met Kainak. He met the Jungle Dude when Kainak saved his life from a panther-like cat creature, and Kaa returned the favor weeks later. As a thank-you, Kaa hypnotized the young man, as he reminded hims somewhat of Mowgli. When that was over, Kainak told him he was from another land altogether, and then about the “movie” he was in. Naturally, Kaa hated the changes made to his relationship with the Manling, but liked that they included his trickster nature, which he would embrace more. They became friends, and Kaa would play with Kai often, until Kal got a mate and into incidents to protect Pomaika’i from outside dangers, because the island had finally become known to the world. Eventually, just like Mowgli, Kai grew out of Kaa’s hypnosis. But he had some offspring.

“Kaa-aa? KAA!”

Startled out of his reverie, Kaa gazed downwards at one of those offspring, who was visibly annoyed and impatient. “I was just about to leave,” she said.

“I apologissssse,” he replied. “Jusssssst reliving ssssssome mind memoriesss.” If you’re wondering how Kaa is still alive and spry, just repeat to yourself ‘it’s one of those Kaa fanfics, I should really just relax.’ But right now, he had an exhausted jungle girl on his hands and she needed his hypnosis! But she wasn’t going to just let him hypnotize her. No, he had to earn it.

This was challenging.

That was it! Grinning, a plan formed in his mind. And knowing that she actually was open to being hypnotized, he didn’t need to do too much. “By the way, I have a challenge for you,” he said.

“What kind of challenge?” she asked skeptically, knowing what he had in mind, and a little excited, but not quite about to let him rush into it.

Seeing her reaction was just what he wanted, he chuckled to himself. “Oh, a game, if you will.”

His euphemism did not get past her, and she grinned a little bit. She was tired, and getting hypnotized would be a nice way to relax, end the day. But that snake was not going to get her that easily. He was certainly playing with her, so she would play her game, too. “Oh, really?” she asked, crossing her arms, inspecting her nails. “What kind of game are we talking about?”

“A ssssssssssstaring contesssssssssst!” he declared.

... Seriously? That was his plan? Emi stifled a laugh. She wanted to indulge him and compete in this staring contest, but he'd given his endgame away! Sure, she wanted to be hypnotized, but it don't work that way!

"Really?" she asked. She expected better from the legendary snake.

“It’sssssssss not jusssssssst a ssssssssimple ssssssssstaring contessssssssst,” he said, nuzzling her cheek while wrapping part of his tail around her shoulder. “It’sssssss a… ssssssPECIAL ssssssssstaring con-tessssssssst!” He chuckled, his body rippling sinuously.

“How special?” she asked. At that moment, she remembered her legs were hurting, so she sat down cross-legged on the branch. “Maybe I just want to sit down and enjoy the view!”

“How’sssssssss that better than looking at me?” He asked, playing hurt and withdrawing his tail from her shoulder. “What’ssssssss ssssssssso fun about looking at the ssssscenery… when you can look at meeeee?”

He circled her again, wrapping his tail around her shoulder, bringing himself back into her line of sight. “If you don’t want to, that’sssssss fine. But you look sssssso tired. Perhapsssssssss you might lassssssst, perhapsssssssss not. What’sssssssss the harm in trying, hmmmm?”

Emi's chest tightened. She thought about letting him hypnotize her, so she could rest her mind and body for a while... The temptation was pulling at her. She looked away for a moment, thinking about extending the game a little longer, but she was excited, eager to get under Kaa's spell. So, she turned and looked into his eyes, grinning.

"You're on!" she said, ready to be hypnotized. Narrowing her eyes, Emi leaned forward to psych Kaa out. Yeah, she knew he thought it was easy, but she was just playing his game. Pretty quickly though, she realized how silly it was to have a staring contest with a snake. Did those f***ers even have eyelids? Several moments passed while she stared at his eyes. Still no colors. He was waiting for her to blink, she concluded, so he could start, but she stubbornly refused to blink—

And then she yawned, breaking the eye contact. Shit, she thought. I lost.

“Hm, hm, hmmmm, I win, you looooose,” he said. Then he pushed his face into hers, activating the colored spirals in his eyes. He suspected the young jungle woman lost on purpose, but that just meant she consented to being hypnotized. So, he would give her what he wanted, the same hypnosis he used on Mowgli, and her father, brothers and her. “Watch the pretty colorssssssss, Emiiiii!”

Emi's head jerked back a couple centimeters upon making eye contact with Kaa. Her plan to get started had worked a little too well, but she wasn't complaining. The first spirals reflected in her eyes, mouth agape. Her mind began to fog up a little bit, but not before she resisted a little to keep from falling under immediately. Now that she was being hypnotized, she leaned forward a little bit to see Kaa's hypnotic eyes. Emi's mind immediately emptied the moment she and Kaa made eye contact. The rings in his eyes reflected in hers, beginning the induction. Her jaw dropped and she slumped forward a little bit, like she was trying to get a closer look, even though she was the only audience. A pleasant feeling began to well up in her head, a warm tightness in her chest. Her body slackened just a little bit, arms dropping to the side, allowing Kaa to begin coiling around her. She followed his head as it bobbed, swung and stuff, totally enraptured. For a moment, she almost let his hypnosis completely take over, but she began resisting, telling herself to fight, but just enough to prolong the hypnosis. She wanted to enjoy this.

"Thank... you..." she sputtered.

He pulled his head away from hers. Emi leaned forward. She was completely enthralled by his eyes, focused entirely on them. Her body loosened and she slumped forward a little bit until she felt his soft, smooth scales on her skin. So she straightened herself out on reflex. She was on autopilot, resisting just to drag out the hypnosis and enjoy it a little longer. The euphoric feelings of relaxation began to spread, starting from the warmth in her chest. “Tell me, Emi, what colorsssssssssssss do you ssssssssssssssee?”

“B-blue... greeeeen, puuurpleeee, ye-ye-yellow,” she sputtered, having a hard time forming anything coherent right about now. She resisted a little more, and her mind cleared up just enough to say, “It’s nice, thanks,” before her mind momentarily went blank. She resisted again. It was a technique her father had taught her, and it was not only drawing the hypnosis out, she felt a lot better. However, her eyes were almost literally glued to Kaa’s. She could not, and would not, look away. Now that he had her falling under his spell, Kaa brought his tail back from the branch above, and brought it down to her. Then, he carefully slipped it around her waist, spooled it around her back, and gently tightened his grip on her.

She felt something smooth wrapping around her midsection. Immediately, she moved her legs so that she was straddling the branch and adjusted her seat so the tail could wrap her better. She hoped Kaa would get the hint, that she wanted him to take his time so she could enjoy the experience and fall under his spell on her own terms. He would certainly do that because he respected her and her personal autonomy. Despite what Disney implied, he was a gentlesnake! As if to prove such, he gently squeezed her midsection.

The first thing she noticed was the sudden tightening coils. She gasped at first, then sighed as he eased up on her. On the repeat, she took a deep breath and release a deep sigh. Her whole body was beginning to feel heavier, like she could barely lift her legs, but the aches in her muscles were disappearing. Suddenly, his face in hers made her lean backwards, held in place by his coils. When he pulled back, she leaned forward. She also knew that Kaa was playing up the "punishment", for they were both getting what they wanted right now.

He kept bobbing his head around, wiggling his body. He tightened his grip on her again and continued wrapping her up. She was so cute, but she was going to be even cuter in a few moments. She was slipping just a little, by the way her head dipped, her eyes closing, but she kept bringing her eyes back up to his. They'd done this so many times, he'd forgotten how many times, in the same way he never kept track of how many animals he'd eaten. Oh, well!

Carefully, he slipped his tail around that raised part of her body, gently squeezing, making her eyes widen. She got a little more hypnosis from that moment, gasping, but she went back to staring at his eyes. Still carefully, he tightened his grip, and continued coiling her, finally passing by that part of her anatomy. Now he was just below her "shoulders". He squeezed again. His heart pounded in anticipation for what was to come. She, on the other hand, sat straight up. She'd stopped thinking a few moments ago, thankfully, to take in his amazing hypnosis. The coils ascending her body felt like a nice, warm bed, beckoning her into their soft comfort.

She was getting closer to falling under now, but she still had coherent thoughts. Those thoughts were, 'Keep staring, don't give in, holy cow this feels so good' and the like. Besides that, her head was getting foggy, except for Kaa's words. They sounded like sweet honey if it was a voice.

“Are you getting tired, Emi?” Kaa chuckled. “Why don’t you… resssssssssst a little?”

Emi's eyes almost closed, her head dropping down. She was feeling woozy, like she was drunk, only that it felt a thousand times better, like she really could forget all her troubles and just give in. However, clarity fought back, making her lift her head and eyes back up, making sweet eye contact again. When she heard him suggesting that she resist, she widened her eyes as much as she could, but got a harder burst of hypnosis. That wasn't enough to make her surrender, though. Those eyes... so pretty! she thought.

“It’ssssssss an honor to be hypnotizsssssed by me, issssssssn’t it?” Kaa asked proudly.

“Y-yeah,” she croaked.

"I hope you're ready," he said, "But no russssssssh."

His tail reached above her shoulders, ringing around her neck, but not squeezing... yet.

Her head bounced around as his head also bounced, loving what she was seeing. Her thoughts were vanishing, except for one: "Give in", but she didn't. She still wanted to keep the hypnosis going as long as she could. Despite that, she struggled to keep her eyes open, to keep from giving in. Then she remembered she was totally coiled up, comfortably immobile, and his tail around her neck, ready to squeeze. The colors... the colors... They were all she wanted to see right now...

He waited until he could tighten his entire body around her, and once he did, tightened around her neck, squeezing in a way that made her gulp and her eyes bulge, but didn't cut off her air. Now she was immobilized, cocooned by his body, about to fall under his spell any moment now...

His squeezing made her gasp for air each time. It also forced her to open her eyes, which meant that she received more hypnotic rings. She felt like her mind was being hammered, not in a painful way, but in a way that made it almost impossible for her to resist any longer. But she did, and the hypnosis increased, beginning to overwhelm her. How much longer could she last? ‘Oh, just give in,’ she told herself. She wasn’t going anywhere, being completely coiled up, and about to fall under hypnosis. One more squeeze did the trick, and she gave up so she could fall under Kaa’s blissful spell. *GULP!* Her widened eyes were ring-filled, blankly staring off into nothing, and her lips were stretched in a goofy grin. Inside, she had no thoughts, just blissful emptiness, and could hardly hear anything, like she was wearing noise-cancelling earphones, except Kaa’s voice would be the music playing in her ears. Now she would wait for Kaa’s next instructions.

As soon as she fell under his spell, he lifted her off the branch, wrapping her down to her knees, holding her aloft to admire his handiwork. Had he outdone himself? Probably, probably not, but he was satisfied with said handiwork. He had her completely under his spell, ready to follow his whims.

“Did you enjoy yoursssssself?” he asked, gently squeezing her.

“I did enjoy it,” she replied in a dreamy monotone. When he squeezed her, she gasped and moaned with pleasure.

“That’ssssssss good, very good,” he said. “You did well, put up a good fight.”

“Thank you, Kaa,” she said.

“But are you happy to be under my ssssssspell?”

“Very happy,” she said. “Thank you for hypnotizing me.”

The thank-you was unprompted, and he chuckled. “Yesssssssss, are you a good sssssssubject?” he asked.

“I’m a good subject,” she answered, more than happy to cooperate.

“Do you enjoy when I ssssssqueeze you?” he asked, giving her such a squeeze.

“I do enjoy it,” she replied. When he squeezed her, she gasped and moaned with pleasure, but when he placed her on the branch, she slumped forward. She must’ve looked adorable to the snake.

“Let’sssss sssssstart with the basssicsssss,” he said. He waved his tail and said, “Come, walk, pleasssse… Trussssst in meeeeee, jusssssst in meeeee… Ssssshut your eyesssss and trussssst in mmeeeeee…”

At his command, she obediently walked towards him, closing her eyes. They had done this many times before, a sign of trust between the pair of them. Even though her mind was empty, the next thing Kaa would do was never in doubt. Kaa placed his tail at the end of the branch and made a staircase for Emi to ascend. He wanted this to go a certain way, make the jungle girl do as he wanted, see that she was going to cooperate. He had no doubts that she would, of course, especially when he was going to ensure that she had as much fun as he was going to have with her.

“Are you feeling well?” he asked.

"I'm feeling amazing, Kaa," she answered, still ascending the staircase, without opening her eyes or twitching. She was enjoying this, a nice, relaxing hypnosis session to unwind after a stressful fight with Russian mobsters. And since he still adhered to the Law of the Jungle, she was never in any danger to begin with. There were things she wouldn't do, of course, but the point of a session like this is to trust someone else. Emi was a strong, independent human female, getting to hypnotize and play with her was a privilege that Kaa was more than happy to have.

She would be safe with Kaa. He considered her a friend, a playmate, too. He would ensure her safety, as she trusted him with her life, allowing him to play with her while she was in this vulnerable state. As she ascended the stairs, Kaa moved his body around, keeping her from reaching the end of his body, until he found a spot above the tree branches. "Sssstop, pleasssse," he sang, simultaneously preparing his body for something special for her. "Turn around, pleeeeaaaaasssssse," he sang sweetly. "I've got sssssomething sssssspecial plannnnnned!"

Then Kaa straightened out his tail, looping it around in several locations, creating hills and valleys until his body looked like a roller coaster. Then he nudged her from behind with his snout to begin the ride. He let gravity take its course when necessary, but also created a few humps and hills for her. Each time he made one, he rolled his body to lift her, then let her descend with gravity's help. All the while he descended his head towards the tip of his tail, touching it with his head. When she reached the end of the roller coaster, she kept on going on the track. Smiling, Kaa was happy that his adorable subject seemed to be having fun. He did his best to keep the coils going, until he started running out of body. So he moved his body so that she could land on the branch, the tip of his tail touching said branch.

She landed on the branch, but kept walking. He put his tail at the end of the branch, and she walked down another staircase of his tail. Then, he removed the tip of his tail from the branch, wrapping his tail around her midsection twice, keeping her arms free. Then he made a little wheel with his tail. “What do you ssssssee, Emi?” he asked.

She felt like she was being bounced around, only to find physical stability when Kaa made the little hamster wheel of coils that she walked on. The tail around her waist didn't hurt, either. "I see the colors," she answered when asked what she saw. "Blue... purple... green... yellow... they're so steady," she said. Her eyes were still closed, like that would matter for Kaa. She also stopped with the coils stopping, feeling relaxed as Kaa coiled her up, stopping below her chest.

Then, he lifted her out of the hamster wheel, turning her so her stomach was facing downwards. Just in case, he prepared another coil slope beneath the entranced jungle girl. “Now, you are flying high in the air, through the colorsssssssss.”

Immediately, Emi spread her arms out like wings. She banked and dipped, seeing the forest go by below her. Her expression was one of pure joy, even opening her eyes. And yes, she still saw the green passing below her in the theater of her hypnotized mind.

“Feel yoursssssssself flying, Emi,” he said. “You are sssssssoaring above the treesssssss, above everything. You are free, asssssss a bird, from the ground, from your troublessssssssss…”

Now Emi could see nothing but the blue sky, and she was... not as happy as she had been. It wasn't Kaa's fault, she just didn't think the endless blue daytime sky was interesting, it was monotonous. The jungle from the air was breathtaking.

Seeing that she didn’t like the view, Kaa pulled her towards him. “Do you want to be a bird, Emi?” he asked. “Would you like to fly… on my armssssssss? I can keep you sssssssssafe.”

Emi grimaced. She was hypnotized, not stupid. “No thanks,” she said. “I don’t wanna plummet to my death.”

Kaa chuckled. “Ah, sssssssilly me,” he said. “Don’t worry, I’ll make ssssssssure you don’t sssssslip and fall. I wasssssss going to let you ride my coilsssssssss again.”

“Oh,” she said, realizing that she’d misunderstood him. She nodded, awaiting his command. He lowered her towards the coil coaster, readying her for the command.

“Now, Emi, you are a bird, flying through the air. Jussssssssst relaxssssssssss, and let yourssssssssssself go. You can fly.”

Emi made a bird sound. Kaa let go of her ankles, and she slid down his body, wind blowing in her face. As she approached the bottom of the slide, Kaa’s body lifted, well-times to keep her momentum up (no pun intended), allowing her to keep sliding along his body. A tight turn made her bank said turn, arms spread out like wings. To her hypnotized mind, she WAS a bird, maybe one of the smaller jungle birds, since before she had gotten the command, Kaa had said something about “little bird”. Well, whatever was going on in her head was irrelevant. What mattered was how Kaa might be reacting. She navigated the course with ease, albeit aided by Kaa's twisting and turning body. As he simulated a dive, she swung her legs forwards as if to catch her prey. Then she ascended and she ascended with it. She had missed the target, but didn’t mind at all. Flying was fun. She even went upside down, something she hadn’t even considered before, then re-righted herself.

“You ssssssssspot ssssssssssomething,” he instructed, “A big, perhapssssssss? Ssssssssseee if you can catch it.”

Once she was re-righted, Emi the bird dove for the imaginary bug on the tree. She could see it, like she was a hawk with the best vision in the animal kingdom. Upon approach, she swung her legs forward again. She swung around along Kaa’s coils, grabbed the imaginary insect with her talons—er, bare foot—and “flew” off. Another successful catch.

“Well done, exssssssccccccellent!” Kaa declared. “Now, return to your nesssssssst.”

As if she knew what Kaa meant, Emi’s body slackened, and she was no longer a bird. She laid on her stomach on the coils, letting herself slide downwards until Kaa’s coils tightened around her. She was back in his coils, getting comfortable.

“Did you like being a bird?” Kaa asked, getting close to her.

"I liked it a lot," she replied. "What are we going to do next?"

Massaging her body, Kaa asked, “Would you like to be a monkey for a while?”

Emi immediately started chattering like a monkey, as if she was eager to get started on the next little game right away. His coils loosened and dropped around her, but his tail remained around her midsection. Emi's movements were perfect reenactments of simian movements. She'd spent some time with the island's ape and monkey populations, as well as some beastmen. Acting like a monkey while keeping her dignity came naturally to her. She ran up the trunk of the tree, walked out onto a branch and squatted there, making more monkey noises. Feeling Kaa's tail pull on her, she kept going.

Kaa lifted his head, motioning towards some wild bananas. “There’ssssssss sssssssome bananassssssss here,” he said. Are you hungry?”

Emi squatted, then sprung from her spot, landed on the branch, and grabbed a banana. It was not a human-made banana, but a wild banana. Taking one off the tree, she opened the banana and bit into it. It tasted sweet and tangy, but crunchy. Wild bananas are full of seeds, unlike the human-modified bananas found in grocery stores. Most wild fruit share very little with fruit from the grocery store. She only ate two bananas, then stopped as if she was full. As soon as she felt Kaa's tail wrapping around her, she stopped acting like a primate, the silly grin returning. However, when Kaa didn't wrap his tail around her, she jumped to another branch and proceeded to walk on it on all fours. Then she dropped, but held on with all fours. She was still a primate in her head.

Then Kaa slipped his tail back around her midsection, lifting her up to a higher branch. “Why don’t you exssssssplore? Jump the branches, climb the treessssss!”

Emi let go of the branch she was on and landed on the one just beneath her. Then she jumped, strong jungle-raised legs propelling her upwards at another branch. She grabbed the branch, pulled herself up and squatted, lingering. After a few seconds passed, she jumped off that branch, grabbed onto another one and pulled herself onto that one.

Kaa could see that she was getting tired—she was laboring to breathe, her skin was shining with sweat, and it looked like she could hardly stand—so he wrapped his tail around her midsection, lifting her up. She slumped like a ragdoll cat as soon as he had her in his grip. “It ssssssseemssssssss you are tired,” he said. “Would you like to ressssssssst?”

"Yes, I'd love to," Emi replied. Being wrapped up and going to sleep sounded like heaven. She may have been under hypnosis, but her muscles were on fire and she was still trying to catch her breath. Some rest was just what she needed. He set her down on the branch, straddling it and pulled his tail away. Then, he brought his tail back down and started coiling her up in a way much like during the induction.

She relaxed as his tail coiled around her body, encasing her in a comforting coil blanket burrito. Then, his coils finished coiling her up, pulling on her neck. With that out of the way, Kaa lifted her off the branch and wrapped his tail around her legs so he could massage her. Emi closed her eyes, sighed and moaned as Kaa began the massage. Her body didn't quite ache before, but that was no longer the point. The feeling of his muscles all over her body, massaging hers could only be described as "heavenly". It was a hidden benefit to living in the jungle, having a snake that could help her get away from her troubles for a little while, always glad she came.

Her tense muscles felt lighter, heightening the feeling of hypnotic bliss. She moaned again, and it turned into a sigh. Her back arched and she stretched out her legs as much as she could in the cocoon of coils. Even better, she was reaching such a heightened state of relaxation, that she began drifting to sleep. And with a few more rubs from Kaa’s coils, that’s exactly what happen, her head falling backwards and her body going limp in his coils.

“I wisssssssh we could’ve done more today, but there’ssssssss alwayssssssss tomorrow,” he said, unknowingly planting something in her that they would both very much enjoy. “But for now, he liked seeing her this way, all coiled up, seated on the branch. “Now, gooooo toooooo ssssssssssssssssssleeeeeeeeeeeeep,” he said. Her eyes having already closed, Emi obeyed one last command for the day, and fell asleep in Kaa’s coils, her silly grin still plastered on her lips.

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Emi woke up with a familiar feeling. She really needed to take care of some... business. Waking up, she still felt the blissful emptiness of Kaa's hypnosis, and upon opening her eyes, the rings were still in her eyes, complete with the silly grin. She squirmed in her coil cocoon, getting Kaa's attention, watching as the snake's head appeared in her line of sight.

Upon seeing her, Kaa’s face lit up. She was still under hypnosis. But, there was something she needed to do. The coils cocoon loosened, Emi sat up, turned robotically, got out of the cocoon and departed.

She returned minutes later, feeling fully refreshed. She was also still fully under Kaa's spell, the rings pulsing in her eyes. Kaa must've done a number on her yesterday, although she probably didn't mind. Anyways, she found Kaa's coils waiting for her, ready to recapture her when she returned. Without prompt, she stepped into the middle of the coils, sitting cross-legged so Kaa could put her back in his coils.

“Good morning, Emi,” he said, examining her, still under his spell. “Did you ssssssssleep well? It ssssssseeemsssssss you like being under my ssssssssspell!”

"I slept very well, Kaa," she answered, still with that blissful, dreamy monotone. Judging by past experience, she would only stay with him for a couple of days and the spell would wear off. "You really outdid yourself this time, I thought I'd stay under your spell a few days. What will we do today?"

“I have an idea,” said Kaa. He was more than happy to provide his latest friend with his patented hypnotic distractions.