"Excuuuuuuuuuuuse meeeeeeeeee?" The snake hissed aloud. His swirling eyes dominating the frightened girl's vision and completely blocking all other sights of the jungle by virtue of its luminous hues. The hissing words were soothing and alluring, beckoning her to look on; she wouldn't want anything else afterwards.
 
Shanti's eyes go blank, her vision becoming a swirl of color and the terror she was feeling in her body begins to melt away. Her mind begins to become fuzzy, everything slowing down and heavy. The snake's words caressing her ears and pulling her towards the beautiful spirals. The open mouth begins to slacken and mindless awe takes over a desire to flee.
 
Her eyes become overlapped by a pattern of colors. Each time they rolled to the back of her eyeballs they spawned within her pupils yet again. Every revolution of spirals continued to drift her conscious mind further and further away, while limbs become filled with lethargy. Her mind continued to buzz with static and her face felt warm around the throbbing shades her eyes produced.
 
A ticklish feeling cascades across her nose, swirling behind her face that beckons her to begin smiling. Her arm she once had raised in defense against a fear she had was now flat at her side, twitching with a numbing host of tingles. Pulsing colors made her fuzzy filled head drift into a lull, the sounds of the jungle all but muted in exchange to the voice of the python that continued to usher her into a tranquil state.
 
"Might I be, of ssssssome, asssssssisssssstancccccce?"
 
Shanti felt bliss sink in as those words sank into the back of her mind. The source of the colors wanted to help her. That's all she ever wanted. Someone to aid her. Someone to lean on for whatever she was doing. Even now her mind was just a pulsing drum of euphoria and gormless thoughts. She was found by something so kind and thoughtful. Help was here now. There was no reason to worry now.
 
Shanti felt obliged to hear the beautiful serpent out. The colors bestowed her such feelings that she never knew in her young life. Even the warmest campfire, the nicest quilt or the embrace of her parents never felt so soothing and exhilarating. Her toes wiggled in place, feeling as if she was dipped in a warm bath of sweet oil, her hair getting goosebumps along the numbing skin that tingled all the way from the top of her throbbing head to the bottom of her pulsing soles. Without even thinking, she gestured the torch away, wanting to see only the pulsing rings that expanded from her eyes quicker than ever in reflection of her benefactor's inverse affect.
 
Hearing the laughter faintly within the corner of her pleasure addled mind, Shanti's other arm was slipping over to her side more. Unable to have independent motor control, her hands numbed of sensation and robbed of individual control in favor of letting this blissful bath of ecstasy ride all over every microbe within her being. The torchlight became dim as it was nearly slipped out of her fingers, a soft halo of golden tongues that cast a shadow over the now broadly grinning village girl. The eyes were now releasing spirals in regular intervals at fractions of a second, the throbbing within her brain now a constant pulse and every iota of her cranium was a hive of pleasure. Her stomach coiled with butterflies, her chest breathed in slow, deep breaths out of her nostrils and mouth. She was practically erect in a partially forward bent motion, wishing the colors would cover every part of her body.
 
And like that, she dropped the torch...
 
Kaa had her in his clutches. Her mouth was now dropped open, hanging wide and body hunched forward till barely a couple of feet separated serpent and village girl. With her body at his mercy, the python toyed with his captive man cub, as he always done. The one known as Mowgli was long gone with Baloo so he had no reason to fret, no reason to believe he was at risk. It was just her and a delicious young girl.
 
Kaa began to pull back, playfully enunciating his next chosen words in a drawl. She leaned forward, almost taking a step despite how little feeling she had in her tingling legs and feet. Construing his face to add enhancement to his ruse, Kaa indulged his inner thespian to take hold as he lulled the child into his subtle manipulation. She wouldn't know or understand because her mind was a ball of ticklish fluff, and was just entranced by what was coming from his eyes and sparking into hers. He didn't mind; he enjoyed humoring himself.
 
Kaa widened his mouth, his eyes homing in on hers as he approached her. His tail flicked just above her, in readiness to accompany his movement towards the captivated girl. She was still as a doll and only exhaled slowly out as she thoughtlessly awaited his forward sinuous descent towards her face.
 
Shanti remained in place as he hissed out halfway to his sentence, drawing out the lisp of his speech to intensify the nerves in her ears that he knew he tapped into when hypnotizing his prey. His tail arched up, just barely above her smoothly combed hair -filled with flecks of soot, leaves and sweat from her night-long journey- to brush it in a soothing way. This was all part of the deception, to continue fueling the fire of the trance with words that will continue to fool her dazed mind from ever attempting to resist him.
 
The corners of Kaa's lips moved with his next word, showing a smugness to his speech that her color-drowned eyes wouldn't interpret. His tail arched back, ready to perform his next gesticulated movement as he enamored the child further into his thrall. It was all part of the dance of deception he loved performing on his prey; especially man cubs.
 
Continuing to bait her, Kaa angled his head to the side, causing Shanti's head to tilt slightly to the right to look down. Her back arched up to see him more steady but her arms now rested her hands on her skirt covered lap. Her mouth nearly closed, forming a small 'o' as a tender sweep of the serpent's tail cupped over her head down between her eyes from the side. The underscales brought a host of feelings she couldn't quantify beyond the constant static of warmth the colors brought; but it did feel nice.
 
Kaa bends his neck down a little more, his emerald body a spiral from the above canopy as much as the eyes that were magnetically drawing Shanti's to his. His tail brushed with a bit of force, twisting her neck a bit as it moved from the middle of her face around to the right, looping over her sweaty and grime filled crown of black tresses. Her mouth was barely open, the strength of her erect posture completely enthralled by his words as much as the blissful rings that kept appearing before her gaze.
 
"Are you losssssst little one?"
 
Kaa induced the question into the village girl's mind, letting it persist as much as the rhythmic hues of light that were spawning within the depths of her pupils and the slow, methodical stroke of her scalp of his smooth tail's underbelly. Looking at him oblong, she was still completely at his beck and call, unable to form a rational response against such a leading question. Her hands rustled at the front of her skirt, her toes wiggled unconsciously below, and her breathing continued to move out as much as it was in with slow motions.
 
Kaa raised his face, turning it so Shanti would follow his head's movement. He knew all too well that she couldn't verbally speak, given how deep she was into the trance. Had she been more free spirited and less constrained by man village rules, she might have been able to rebuttal. But out here? She was innocent and unable to break away from his simple commands. So in his deep-throat chuckling he began to move, to mnemonically command her to nod in acknowledgement to him.
 
Kaa's grin became crooked mid-chuckle, his head now just high enough to cause her toes to tip herself upward and her head lean back so her eyes could follow his face's movements. It was an amusing thing, to see someone captivated so much they'd do anything to keep being basked in a blissful heat. He knew she'd do anything to keep in line of sight of those beautiful rings that spun her around his...er...tail.
 
Having completed his head bob, Shanti was now back to leaning forward, her mouth hanging open in a slack-jawed manner as her eyes continued to reflect the reverse of his eyes' pattern. It filled him with glee that she was completely at a loss what to do, hanging on his words like a good little man cub. He wished Mowgli had been so willing to listen to his words, and submit himself to his authority. That didn't matter, however, as a rumbling stirred deep within his gullet high up into the trees.
 
It was time to hasten this play session along...
 
Kaa leaned back, his face contorting into one of distress, causing Shanti's forward hunch to lean closer in return. Her brows quivered, her face showed some concern, mimicking the expression in a way that he hoped she would. It wasn't often that he found such a delectable puppet; it only served to make the dinner and a show that much more amusing. Kaa's smile broached his face within a heartbeat, arching his immediate coiled neck to turn around to her right. Her back straightened up and her head tilted back so it could follow him. Her mouth nearly closed, her body already gesturing oddly in tandem with his inevitable circular motion.
 
Kaa slurred out his words as he continued to lock eyes with her in the midst of his tree-suspended twist. Her body followed him diligently without hesitation, still trapped in the trance of throbbing static and prickling numbness that tickled her insides from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet and tips of her fingers. Obeying him as he continued to deceive her, he deepened his smile as he continued to move around the air with his eyes pulling her gaze with him.
 
Kaa continued to spin around, using more of his immediate neck-coil to facilitate his spinning movement while pulling his tail-coil upwards into the unseen canopy. He could see the beginnings of a smile cross her face, her lips no longer open because of the intense proximity of his color-pulsing eyes to her own. The blissful sensations that was throbbing her whole body was augmented through this newest bout of movement, sound and sight, bringing her breathing to sound akin to deep sighs of pleasure.
 
Bringing his head around at a semi-circle, his face was now angled intimately close to hers. Her lips stretched into a tight smile, her eyes widely soaking in his own lidless orbs with visible excitement. Beyond everything else, the village girl was feeling rapture in finding such benevolent shades cast to her as if it was candy. She hummed with idle movement, always ensuring she followed the beautiful rings no matter where they went.
 
"Are you...huuuuuuuuuuungryyyyyyyy?"
 
This question postulated throughout his previous gestures and facial expressions. It was a hollow question to ask, for it was not pertaining to what she wanted. Every little question was just a lie, for he had no desire to know her worries. She belonged to him, and no matter how tired, dirty or hungry she was, it was his needs that were going to be satisfied. And with a witless smile adorned on her face, it seemed that he'd just might get his way for once.
 
Kaa was now looping his coil around to brush Shanti's braided hair, motioning to pull her into a scaly embrace as he angled up and around for her to keep gazing. Her tightly stretched lips continued to hold, her face nothing but a hive of joyous bursts of ticklish sensations from the increased thrum of her throbbing head.
 
Holding her in place so she couldn't move back, the upper arch of his neck-coil twisted to the side, staring at her from his right as she continued to smile thoughtlessly at his angled rings. The smooth underbelly brought chills up and down her prickling spine, inducing a swooning inhaling sigh from her. Kaa began to pull close as he whispered his honest, bare truth in close contact to her.
 
Hissing aloud his final word, he wrapped an especially thick part of his coil around her head from the jaw all the way past her right ear and behind her head. He could sense the immediate warmth of the sweaty jungle girl, her breath cascading over his coils through her nostrils in a contented breath of pleasure. His smile curled with the slithering of his tongue, finding himself shuddering with anticipation. He was so close!
 
Kaa arched his neck up, keeping Shanti held in a forward leaning swoon, gayly staring up at him without any worry or strife. The necessity of maintaining the stare of swarming colors was paramount and she had all but forgotten why she was here in the first place. Only the echoing words left an imprint across the jungle of his true motives, bringing shivers to watchful animals of all small sizes.
 
"I ammmm ssssstaaaaaaarvved!"
 
Kaa tilted up and above his little man cub, keeping a portion of his girth beneath her chin so she was kept craning up at the proper direction. Her forward lurch was beginning to turn in pursuit, her head still angled in a tilted upward lean, her tight smiling lips pressed firmly across her cheeks so tight that it would've strained the village girl's face had it not been for the numbing tingles persistently throbbing over her body. Not that she cared for such things. She was following the light within the darkness, and she wished to go wherever it went.
 
Shanti was lured along the path the serpent desired. Her neck still advanced a bit ahead of her body, wishing to continue along where it went. She didn't have the conscious thoughts about where it was going, only that she had to. The impulse and drive to continue subsuming her little frame in eternal ecstasy through colors prickling her from the head down her hands and feet consumed her. She wanted to be enveloped by these colors, at any cost.
 
Kaa was now elevating himself, wishing to get to a good altitude to take this village girl as his meal. Curling his coiled body he kept his gaze downward as he ascended his neck, maintaining constant eye contact with the man cub. She looked so helpless, so innocent that it made his mouth water. He had to have her soon, or else he'll go mad!
 
Shanti followed as the snake instructed, his tail curling out of the faint corner of his eye as his head was raising higher and higher. She stumbled about her placement, prickling feet trying to find a proper platform to raise her upward. Even as her arms separated to the sides of her skirt covered legs she was doing her best to keep eye contact with the beautiful spirals that drowned her sockets while also pursuing them.
 
The tail flicked back and forth, the eyes farther away than Shanti's pleasure addled mind could comprehend. Gormless track of reasoning led her to sway back and forth, attempting to walk forward while craning her neck up. It was here that she felt something rough and course brush against her numb toes. Achieving success she opened her mouth with a stretched grin, finding herself drawn closer to it by unseen strings that puppeteered her onto the natural platform in the jungle.
 
Shanti took her first step onto the boulder, her lack of senses making it almost a dangerous move had it not been for the anchor of Kaa's eyes up above her. Guided through his bountiful streams of colorful hues, the village girl began to lift herself up in order to be even closer to the pretty lights; lights that drove her to follow the snake without any regard for her own well being.
 
Shanti put her other foot down onto the boulder, now able to stare upright with arms held lax at her sides. Here she received a ripe halo of rings that reflected into her own childish sockets. Her orbs continued to spread out from the center, disappearing behind and producing nirvana for her brain to release endorphins the likes of which she never produced before. Her open mouth began to drool, smiling without a care and worry, enjoying the close contact that her rough platform afforded her now.
 
The python began to chuckle, bringing a host of ticklish additions to the swarm of prickling her body felt beyond the surface numbness that held her captive. Sweat grew in abundance from this amount of stimuli she was experiencing. Drops formed along her flesh, hitting the boulder with the faintest of sounds that she'd never hear. A sense of taste lingered as a droplet caressed her mouth and over her leaking saliva that ebbed over her chin, forming a rivulet that stretched in a gooey string off her jaw.
 
Shanti had no concept of time that was passing. As the seconds passed it might as well been an eternity. The capture of mystical rings that washed over her mind and the tantalizing voice that tickled her pricked ears erased any sense of awareness. What was the point of living if she didn't have this beautiful scene that conveyed affectionately to her. She wished to just look at it, forever, and never move from her spot. It was just her and the endless maelstrom of shaded circles.
 
She stared upward, completely lost in the dream of an abyss filled with the oscillating colors that Kaa forced into her mind. Her body was nothing but jelly, a numb piece of sweaty flesh ready to serve him at any moment. Her belly rose and fell with her chest, her breaths still deep and rhythmic, while her whole body was basted by the miasma of the jungle's heat. She saw the colors draw even closer, bringing her toes to curl and her fingers twitch at her sides. This is all she ever desired!
 
Kaa was ravenous with hunger at this point. The man cub was now less than an arm length away and his prey was captivated in a perfectly erect posture. It would be easy to simply open his mouth wide and descend over her, jaws enveloping her in a smooth descent. Smacking his lips, her drooling open mouth, sweaty face and broadly staring eyes showed an almost painful need to continue to be in his persistent hypnotic spell.
 
"Don't worry, my delicccciousssss man cub. You'll find yourssssssselffff deep assssssleeeeeep in my belly before you ever realizzzzze what'ssssss happened. Mhmhmhmhmhm!"
 
Kaa closed his eyes and opened his mouth wide, his prey remaining rooted in place with a gormless smile of thoughtless glee. Descending down in a direct but gradual manner, the broadly elongated jaws of the python felt Shanti's smiling, sweaty face enter his throat first with an audible squelch. Pressing down passed her neck and over her shoulders, he moaned with delight at the taste that permeated through the village girl's tight light colored top. The shape of her head squeezed through his neck, her outline permeating through a thick bulge in the thinnest of his coils as he continued to thrust downward and ingest more of her as he went.
 
Sliding past her chest, he'd swallow with gurgling muscular motions, pulling the erect upper body of the man cub deeper into his innards and bringing his face farther downward. Broaching the point where her wrists were locked on either flank of his maw's flaps, he tasted the salt of the jungle's grime on her bellow and back, lapping his tongue around her navel. This issued some muffled laughter on the inside of his belly, much to his enjoyment. After he had assailed her belly button for a few more seconds he'd swallow again, his mouth now conforming around the thick but sweaty skirt around her waist.
 
This was when he found the clothing less tolerable. It completely muted the taste while making him taste something that he perceived as inedible. It was fine when the morsel had its fluids to baste it, but there was hardly enough liquid on it to justify inhaling it. Squinting eyes rolled as he hauled the village girl upward, her legs hanging limply down and her violet fabric swaying back and forth with her lower body. Once at an appropriate altitude he angled his tail around to grasp it by the hem and then tear it off in a single motion.
 
With the offensive garment removed, he hummed with delight as he tasted an abundant amount of flavor in her waist down past her fingers over her thighs. By this point she was as good as inside of his throat, making the downward swallowing more trouble than it was worth. Raising his neck up, the knees bent but that didn't matter to him; with a lasso of his tail around them he kept them straight as he pulled her down into his gulping mouth, aided by gravity with a much easier slope of ingestion.
 
He felt Shanti squirm on the inside, making him wonder if she was being roused out of her hypnotic bliss. Not that it mattered, he continued on his usual pace, savoring every suck and every swallow as the man cub continued to satiate his hunger while providing him a decadent taste. Unraveling his coil around her knees, he'd feel her feet twitch and her toes scrunch up, a sign of more animated movement as her shape's bulge squirmed within and noise could be heard as much as felt. Grinning darkly, he closed his eyes and hummed around her calves as her legs began to flow ever-so gently into his squelching insides.
 
"Mmmmmffff...Mah...Mah-ow...g-gli?" Shanti tried to muffle out, her mouth straining to produce words her mind had once said easily, but now, lethargy and a cramped, dank space that folded over herself made it difficult. As a yellow ring escaped a widening black pupil, a green ring thinly escaped the pupil, shrinking it again as the spell pulled her back in. Just as she was about to free herself mentally, the sensation of her feet folded into a warmth with the rest brought it back into full swing; synonymous with submission as a ping went off in her head.
 
"That wasssss a closssse one, hm? I almost thought you'd escape my spell," Kaa intoned with a deep bass, chuckling sinisterly afterwards as the motion of her shapely form distended his girth all the way up to his bundle on a tree branch. Swirling in and around, she'd moan, moving from one pile of coil to the other, continuously enraptured by a liquid smothering warmth while basking in the permanent spell that she had failed to escape from. Smiling ear to ear, her eyes radiated colors within the scarlet pit that basked her with layers upon layers of internal fluids, stringing along her face and chin, down her neck and across her chest over her naked legs and pert little rump.
 
"You were sssssssooooooo tassssstyyyyyy," The serpent said, raising his neck up to observe her bulge halt within the middle of his coiled pile, right within the center where she squirmed a bit, forever trapped inside her own mind as much as his belly; till he finished digesting, that is. Laying over her, he smothered the middle coil in the entirety of his bulk, resting after a well earned eating tonight. "I can't wait to find more of you sssssscruuumptiousssss little onesssss. Mhmhmhmhmhm!"