A visit to the magistrate (Uvuzi)
White knighting for an apparent victim of predation can get you into a slimy digestive fix of your own, it turns out.
There was a large bulge in the skunkette lamia's thickest coil. Without a doubt the skunk-snake had swallowed a humanoid, and one of fair size; from the bulge of the head, past the widening of the shoulders and down the body eventually to the legs and feet, the bulge was close to seven feet long. Her meal had been swallowed head first, as the head-bulge was closer to the lamia's fluffy skunk tail than the rest.
Uvuzi was partly coiled up on the wood floor, the bulge of swallowed prey to the front so as to be easily viewed. Her fluffy tail was to one side and from behind the bulge rose her humanoid body. She was furry from pink skunk nose to fluffy tail and didn't need to wear clothing, but a modest yellow dress covered her from shoulders to what would be upper thighs if her "thighs" weren't a thick column of muscular furry snake. Furry cleavage peeked out of the dress's V neck but the dress did cover up her humanoid private parts farther down.
Her pelt color was medium blue, darker than her sister Nyoka, and down her back and then along the flanks of her snakey half were double white stripes. Her face would have looked normal enough on an actual dire skunk, with its muzzle and cup-shaped ears.
All in all Uvuzi resembled some sort of horrible monster hybrid, as though a skunk-man took it on himself to fuck a scaly lamia woman. Which is exactly what had happened. Shortly after that the skunk-man found himself in the scaly lamia's stomach, but the deed was done and so were spawned the skunkette lamia sisters.
"And that is what happened, your honor," she purred. She gestured with her right arm, which was partly wrapped in bandages, to her furry skunk-snake lower half. Wide stick-on bandages of the commonly available alchemically-treated-but-not-quite-magical type were stretched over the bulge in her thickest coil, holding shut what must be several serious cuts.
"So," said Captain Sunspear. The tall khardaki captain's nearly white muzzle was framed by a glorious golden mane. He was out of his gold-embossed armor, having been roused from a sound off-duty sleep when the incident at the bar occurred. Despite appearing in court in a bathrobe his great spear was stuck point-down in the floor next to his podium. It was thick hafted and the point was, of course, of gold. It was highly magical and part of the reason he went by the name Sunspear.
"Tell me your side," he said to a swarthy and thickly muscled half-orc who stood next to Uvuzi.
The half-orc opened his mouth to speak as Sunspear gestured to the kobolds who stood near Uvuzi. They waited impatiently as she related her side of the incident and now one began to weave healing spells over their mistress's wounds.
"It is simple," the half-orc rasped. He was heavily scarred and one side of his mouth was twisted by a long healed cut. The same cut had taken out his left eye and a black eye patch ornamented with a white skull covered the socket. He was badly bruised from a recent fight but stood tall as he spoke.
His wrists were tied behind his back so he could only glare at the bulge in Uvuzi's blue and white coil, rather than point. "This beast woman swallowed someone. They were still alive in her gut. I saw the bulge move and the only thing to do was cut them out. Killing her was just a," he wrinkled his brow as he thought. "Side effect?"
"Mmm," Captain Sun spear purred. "Bouncer?"
"Your honor," growled a massive gul wolverine-man who must be nearly as tall as whoever it was Uvuzi swallowed. He wore a byrnie of black mail and scaled bracers that covered his forearms and the back of his hands. A broad, spiked leather collar or gorget protected his neck.
"The half-orc came in half drunk so I was watching him. As soon as he saw Uvuzi he drew his sword and laid into her. One of her kobolds tried to fend him off and was cut in half. The bulge in her middle made it awkward for her to fight so she cast a spell, probably a Mirror Image as there were suddenly five more of her, and tried to retreat. He was hacking at the images when I and another bouncer pulled him down."
A minotaur with a bandaged arm nodded from next to the gul. "She was about to spray him. It's bad for the bar to have blood everywhere, even without skunk stink."
The minotaur shut up as the gul's elbow dug into his ribs. "Your honor," the bull-man finished.
"So," Captain Sunspear purred. The kobold cleric finished his work on Uvuzi and offered his services to the minotaur, who extended his arm to be healed.
"Kravitz," he said to the half-orc. "Not the first time you've been in front of me, is it?"
"Your honor," the half-orc grated. "I was doing a public service."
"You know the right words to say," the magistrate purred. "But not the right things to do." He gestured at Uvuzi with one clawed hand. "Uvuzi is a citizen of good standing. Yes, she eats people. Many here do. Outside the city, I wouldn't trust her. Or various other resident predators."
He shot a glance at the bouncers, who assumed their best innocent expressions. "This is a town of monsters. But law-abiding monsters. If Uvuzi were in the habit of murdering people for food she'd be in prison, or she would be dead."
"But," grated the half-orc. The magistrate cut him off.
"When she eats someone, she purchases that meal lawfully at the Meat Market. Or it's someone who asks to be eaten."
The half-orc's brow wrinkled as he tried to reason that out. The magistrate sighed.
"Miss Uvuzi, if I may impose upon you to explain."
"Of course, your honor," the skunkette lamia purred.
She tensed, and a ripple moved through the fur wrapped around her swallowed prey. The muscles in her snakey half served equally for constriction and as powerful swallowing muscles that helped ease even huge meals into her long stomach. Now they operated in reverse and there was a strange gurgling sound as the bulge moved up toward her humanoid half.
Uvuzi lowered her humanoid body, slithering her coils out of the way as her hands hit the floor. The bulge moved rapidly up the last bit of coil and her humanoid belly bulged as her meal reached her torso. The bulge swelled and Uvuzi gagged as a set of padded, four toed feet appeared in her mouth.
An ess shaped curve in her snakey half pushed the bulge fully into her humanoid body and a set of slimy, tan-furred legs slid from her muzzle. She gaped her jaws to keep her sharp inward-hooking teeth from catching in her prey's pelt.
A wet furry rump appeared from her jaws and the long tan tail with darker tuft at the end identified her meal. It was another khardaki lion-folk, clearly male based on the appearance of a thick black cock gripped in the lion's right hand.
Uvuzi lifted her humanoid body, disgorging the rest of her meal, and the lion ended up on his knees in front of her. His red-brown mane was slicked to his neck by stomach mucus and the hand gripping his formidable cock pumped right up until he realized where he was.
His eyes widened as he saw the bailiffs, bouncers and onlookers. Slowly he turned until his eyes met Sunspear's.
"Oh," he growled, and let go of his cock. He did his best to pull his loincloth over it, but the wet red cloth could only do so much to conceal the bulge of rampant lion-man.
"Sorry, dear," Uvuzi purred. "I know I said you could stay in there all night."
"Your honor," the lion-man purred. He slipped as he tried to stand, his pawpads as slick with gullet slime as the rest of him, then managed on a second try.
"Explain why you aren't on your way to her bowels," the magistrate purred.
"Magic," the wet khardaki said. "This," a claw tapped the gold filigree collar he wore, "Lets me breathe without air, this," He tapped the gold chainmail glove on his left hand, "Holds on a ring that protects me from acid. Gold is acid proof, and this way neither of the items can come off accidentally."
"And you brought these things with you when you offered yourself as a meal?"
"No, your honor. They are hers. When someone pays her for a visit to her belly, they wear these. Otherwise," he shrugged. "Skunk shit."
"So," the magistrate purred. "Do you see your mistake, Kravitz?"
The half-orc laboriously thought it through. "So she is a whore who eats people for money?"
Captain Sunspear sighed. "Kravitz, this isn't the first time you've gotten into trouble. You just can't wrap your brain around how this city works. I wouldn't expect a half-orc to ride in on his white horse to defend people who don't need defending, but you keep doing it. And this time you killed someone."
"It was just a kobold," the half-orc said. Beside him, the skunkette lamia's lips drew back from her needle sharp teeth. For just a moment, the magistrate's fangs showed too.
"You may go," he said to the bouncers. The minotaur left, but Uvuzi gestured to the gul, who stayed.
"Kravitz, there is another time a resident monster is allowed to eat people without repercussions. Would you like to guess when that is?"
Kravitz had a pretty good idea based on the way Uvuzi's snakey lower half was coiling around him. He tugged at the bindings on his wrists, but they were strong and well tied.
"Court is adjourned," Captain Sunspear purred. Uvuzi curtsied as he left. She had two loops of thick furry snake body wrapped around the half-orc and could easily squeeze him to death now that he was unarmed and there was no awkward bulge of lion in her middle. The fact his hands were bound just made things simpler.
They were in a little side room of the district guard house. It was crowded with the bailiffs, magistrate, bouncers, assailant and assailed but not so crowded now. The three kobolds accompanying her closed the door and stood watch as Captain Sunspear explained the situation to the resident officer.
"I appreciate your help," Uvuzi purred to the gul bouncer. "Stay a bit."
"I was just doing my job, miss Uvuzi," he growled, and watched her pull the yellow dress off over her head and set it aside. He didn't object when she reached up beneath the hem of his chain shirt and rubbed his balls.
She flicked her tail at the wet lion-man and he pulled the fluffy thing up against his chest, buggering her without a moment's hesitation. The gullet slime still coating his cock lubed it up for easy entry.
The coiled-up half-orc looked at the gul, who had pulled his chain shirt up so Uvuzi could stroke his long sheath. Already a thick black tip was exposed. He looked the other way and saw the khardaki enthusiastically fucking the lamia's asshole. Halfway between the two was a much closer view of Uvuzi's face, her smile broadening into a fang-studded yawn.
"You are a horrible creature," he rasped, just as Uvuzi's jaws engulfed his face. Her boneless maw stretched easily wider and with his torso wrapped in her coils there was no way to retreat. With a simple push she slid her muzzle over his head and neck, latched her needle teeth into his trapezius muscles and began work her jaws over his shoulders.
With no fur or clothing between his skin and her fangs, being eaten whole was a painful process. As she ratcheted her jaws over his shoulders her needle teeth stabbed first on one side and then the other. Droplets of blood ran down his upper arms ahead of her advancing lips and she twitched her coils lower to avoid it.
Her wish to avoid sullying her clean fur with blood freed his arms from her coils. He would likely be eaten anyway, struggle and fight as he would, but with his wrists bound behind him there was no way to fight at all. He could only swear at her as her elastic gullet slipped over his shoulders and her humanoid half bulged around her meal. As far as he could tell there were no organs in her upper body. It was just a ribcage around a gullet stretchy enough to take a man in whole. There was plenty of room for organs where was heading.
Behind her the wet khardaki let out a full throated snarl and thrust, leaving his cum in the hole from which the remains of the half-orc would eventually reappear. Uvuzi's jaws were to Kravitz's hips but he felt her arm move and knew she had the gul's cock in her hand. The only reason it wasn't in her mouth was her maw was full of him.
"Whore," Kravitz rasped, just as Uvuzi swallowed. With half of him in her throat her powerful swallowing muscles had plenty to grip and a great contraction of her gullet squeezed him deeper. Suddenly he was in her maw to the knees and sliding slowly deeper, eased into her snakey half by the same muscles that constricted him so tightly. The good news was her fangs were no longer needed and pulled out of his flesh. The bad was that there was only one possible destination for his slide.
It was a fine little threesome outside, one he could sense but not see. Uvuzi lifted her muzzle and let gravity slide his calves into her maw. Both her hands were free now and from the position of her arms she was using both on a lengthy gul cock. The lamia let out a pleased purr as the wet khardaki knelt in front of her coils and put his raspy tongue to work. Kravitz had heard that her pussy was off-limits to cocks but tongues were apparently welcome.
There was nothing Kravitz could do to save himself. With a last graze of her needle teeth his feet slipped into her maw and she closed her muzzle to swallow him down. With casual, well practiced ease she formed a bend in her humanoid half and pushed it downward. The kink in her gullet pushed his feet along. The same ess moved into her snakey half and kept him sliding along, slick with gullet slime for easy passage.
A muscular valve opened for his face and a six foot, four inch tall half-orc slid neatly into a stomach just long enough for him to lie stretched out. The khardaki lay here for who knows how many hours, masturbating furiously against the fleshy walls as the necklace and ring protected him from the environment. Kravitz had neither of those magic items and already his skin was stung by acid, with burning pinpricks where it found the hundred tiny holes her fangs made.
A sloshing pool of acid had gathered at the bottom end of her stomach, which unfortunately was where his face and perforated shoulders ended up. It became very unpleasant very quickly and it was only a taste of what was to follow.
"Monsters," Kravitz grated, and tried to worm his way free. He was doomed and he knew it. Close by was the calm thump of the lamia's heart, the whisper of her lungs, the gurgle of her digestive system as it took notice of his presence in her stomach. If he just had a dagger and his hands free there was no telling how much damage he could do. Cut his way out, kill the lamia, or worst case at least wound her gravely and leave her acids to attack the cuts he made.
Without weapons or even hands free to fight he was just a two hundred and fifty pound lump of meat. The stomach acids would dissolve him bones and all, if she was as snakey down here as she looked. Maybe the ornamental metal studs on his eyepatch and the rope binding his wrists would survive the trip through her guts. Nothing else of him would. Nutrients and minerals would be absorbed by her innards and by the time she squeezed used-to-be-him out of her asshole she probably wouldn't even remember his name. To things like her he wasn't a person, just something to turn into a temporary bulge in her thickest coil.
In this he was right and he was wrong. It was Uvuzi's nature to eat people and in other circumstances she would happily make a meal of him, the khardaki or the gul. Maybe even all three of them at once, though that would distend her middle with a ponderous bulge. One man-sized creature was normally enough to sate her.
Here, though, in this town, Uvuzi was on her best behavior. She had friends and lovers and though she might salivate when she looked you over, she was as trustworthy a man-eating monster as you could hope to meet...if you were one of her friends.
Kravitz squirmed and kicked, scalded by acid and knowing it would only get worse. As he struggled he felt her humanoid half move. Her muzzle bobbed up and down and it wasn't hard to reason out why. Eventually the undulations of her stomach walls squeezed out a great bubble of air.
Distantly, through flesh and fur, he heard the lamia let out a long belch. Her muzzle went back to bobbing, and Kravitz the half-orc, stung all over by acid and slowly suffocating, was just barely alive when the gul bouncer's semen joined him in her stomach.