A short story about things.

Mokadu, the rabbit, is by Inkanyamba
Jajuka, the python, is by Tacokurt


Notes:
Story is illustrated, or rather, this story is a description of a comic series starting here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13102331/ -- forwards slashes between paragraphs denote different pages from there.

The tasting of the face after the constriction bit actually makes a certain amount of sense: after pacifying their prey snakes locate the head by scent. I'm not sure what the snakes smell for(CO2?), but considering the evolutionary purpose for the sense of smell, it could follow that snakes would enjoy the scent of the head/face.

A snake's breath would have little reason to have any odour to it due to their slow metabolism – the active digestive process that causes mammals to have a distinctive scent to their breath is very slow in reptiles and happens much father away from the mouth, deep inside the body. Same argument works against dragons having horrid breath as well: they're often described hibernating for years during which their digestive tract would not be working.

Digestive process in most known organisms does not include any acids strong enough to actively cause damage once in contact with skin, but lots of species advanced enough to have muscles have their stomachs break down the food mechanically before processing it further by crushing and kneading it into paste. Hence, the "deep tissue massage".

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