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Where Did You Hear That Song? By Limewah Trade for Outlet 18+

The black and white cat announced her presence to all who could hear, without their consent - as she always did. Whether it was due to a desire to be heard, or a complete obliviousness to the need for quiet that so many jungle creatures needed, she unceasingly miaowed and yowled and chattered. Her confidant and cohort was nowhere to be seen, which only made the cat’s tuneless yells only slightly less grating. His attempts at a vocal harmony were painful.

“By th’ ranks in simple file…

“Over every jungle miiiile…”

Socket had fashioned a crude drinking cup out of the hollowed out skin of an under-ripe mango, and was drinking the juice of an over-ripened one - effervescent and intoxicating. Its juices were spilling out over her chin as she drank unsteadily, and her tongue lolled out to lap it up before it could settle.

She marched with raised knees, an attempt at martial precision that utterly failed to keep time.

“Oh we stamp ‘n crush thru’th… underbrush…”

She pursed her muzzle and blew out a whimpering trumpet - sound, mocking the elephants who'd just recently chased her and her friend away.

“inth’mitilaly shtyle… in the mimitarry style…!”

She cackled and collapsed against a tree, taking one last slurp from her goblet before casting it aside with a hiccough.

“Umnh… Outlet, d’ya have any more nectar…?”

She looked around through unsteady, half blinking eyes, confirming that she was alone.

“Ohhh right, you went thataway and I went thisaway…” she pointed a sluggish claw in two completely different directions. Her head was swimming too much for her to know her cardinal directions, or for her to see all the other jungle creatures glowering at her.

She kept meowing to herself, trying to find the tune again. Her head leaned against the rough tree bark and her eyes slipped closed.

She half-snored, mumbling to herself, her voice unrelenting even as she started to slumber. As her snores grew louder, so too did the discontent of the locals.

This particular wing of the jungle was full of nocturnal birds and little crawling creatures, who were finding themselves woken up at their equivalent to midnight. The chorus of grumbles and tiny complaints fell on deaf, half-asleep ears.

However, another passer-by had also taken notice, one with a far more direct relationship with Socket and her identical friend. He had recently shed his skin, and had gained a bit of an appetite

An emerald-green head descended to examine her as she slept standing-up. The snake cast a slow, methodical look around, and listened carefully. No sign of the other one, or that larger tiger who’d taken it upon herself to be their ward and protector…

There were no other temptations to throw him off course.

Kaa smacked his lips as his tail slid down to scoop up the discarded drinking-bowl. There was a little stream just within reach, conveniently enough.

Socket snored soundly, completely unaware until she felt something nudge her lips. She instinctively puckered them into a kiss.

The mango-goblet’s leathery texture pressed against her muzzle and tilted to pour liquid into her mouth. Something cold, sweetly refreshing in its tastelessness. She didn’t notice how dry her mouth and throat was until now - now that she was getting sweet relief.

“Thankssss Outlet,” she mumbled. “good thinkin’, spring water a day keeps th’hangover away…”

She sniffed at the air. She couldn’t smell Outlet’s fruit-wine breath. In fact, there was a distinct lack of odor all together. When she felt the smooth scales against her ankle, she kicked it sluggishly away before opening her eyes.

Kaa, the green-scaled python, was staring back at her, his yellow eyes wide and welcoming.

“What bringsss you ssso far from your usual ssstomping groundsss, my dear?”

She pushed away from the tree to get some space.

“Goway…” she said. “I know what you’re try’na do, Kaa-!”

She walked face-first into a head-height loop of coils, which promptly draped over her body and curled downwards around her in a lazy helix - not so much weighing her down as keeping her upright and supported.

“You do?” Kaa sounded a little surprised.

“Yuh-huh.” Socket nodded firmly, pouting slightly with a lopsided, lazy-eyelid glare. “You’re not gonna do that… thing y’did to me and Outlet.”

“Oh, I assure you, that was a complete misssunderssstanding... ” Kaa lied.

Socket seemed to be growing slightly more sober - at least sober enough to be able to properly look at Kaa. There was a sweet-spot to hit for drunken snacks - Kaa’s kaleidoscopic hypnotic gaze could make one nauseous if they were too far gone. That would be counter-productive.

For the time being, he focused on getting her guard worn down just a little more. He pushed his coils down into her shoulders. Her muscles were already quite relaxed, but he could feel them soften further against his touch.

Kaa lifted the mango cup and dipped his snout inside, drinking up what was left from it before dropping it down. “A proper showing of gratitude wouldn’t go amissss, you know.”

“Well, I said thank you! Even if I didn’t know it was you.” Socket shook her head and slipped out from the coil-cage. Kaa squawked as his weight suddenly shifted, and his head disappeared halfway up the trees before he managed to snag himself on a branch and stop his momentum.

“Sssuch terrible manners…!”

He grunted and wheezed as he struggled to hoist that discarded loop back into the trees. Gravity was fighting against him, gripping on tight. He groaned and lifted his coils as high as he could, but they dipped back down when he exhaled - two steps forward, one step back each time. It was going to be a slow process, and his old coils were sure to ache by the end of it…

“Rrggh… ohh my sssacrum…”

Socket stuck her tongue out at the snake before stomping off, heading straight for a tree some distance away.

“Please, young lady, lend a poor helpless old sssnake a paw…”

“Leave me alone!” Socket yelled haughtily over her shoulder. “I want some peace n’quiet. Yep that’s right. Quiet quiet quiet… sshhhh. Need’a nap…”

She didn’t stop talking even as she reached the tree and began to climb up it, her voice displacing a burst of red as some angry macaws flew out from its foliage.

Kaa couldn’t help but laugh bitterly at the irony.

He glanced around at some of the other beady eyes watching and glaring with disgust. He nodded to them all with a knowing smirk.

“Yesss… peacssse and quiet, that can mossst ssscertainly be arranged…”

He could get a little revenge, and curry favour with the local fauna… this would be a win-win situation for him.

Once he’d finally gotten his coils back up in the tree, at least.

-

“Sssslither through the pain, Kaa…” the snake mumbled to himself. He’d given up on trying to get his coils back up into the treetops, and had instead elected to slither on the ground. His scales slid along the dirt, which was mercifully soft against his aching lengths.

“Oooh, thisss had better be worth it…”

He reached Socket’s tree. He could hear her singing to herself up in the treetops - he was unsure if she was sleep-singing or wide awake, but either way, she was still vulnerable. In the perfect place to put her in his power.

As he inched his way up, looping his lengths around the thick trunk to help his ascent, he swore he could recognize the air of the song.

As he ascended, so too did a feeling of delight inside his mind.

She was singing his song. Or at least humming it.

“Like a bird… in a nest. Just relax, be at- wait… was it the other way around? And how did the… Hmmm in Me… Just in Me…”

She didn’t remember the words by the sounds of it.

Kaa took his time settling his coils above her, winding and cinching himself in well-secured drapes, before dipping back down underneath the branch to dip back upwards.

“What rhymes with Just? Lust? Thrust…?”

Kaa resisted the perverted urge to chortle. Perhaps he could modify those lyrics for her… and play with his food in more ways than one.

He was falling into the usual trap of over-extending himself, getting carried away… not that he knew it at that moment.

“Trussst?” Kaa helpfully suggested, just as his head appeared from beneath the branches.

Socket was sitting on the tree trunk, legs up, one paw between her legs. She shrieked and pulled back, closing her legs and hurriedly wiping her fingers on the branch.

Kaa’s tongue flicked at the air. The scent of sex was obvious.

“What’d you say?” Socket said, her speech still slurred.

“The word you’re sssearching for is Trusssst.” Kaa rose higher, and his coils followed behind to wrap around the tree branch like twine around a stick. He dropped his head down onto that coil length to rest a moment as the rest of him continued its slow climb up into the treetops. He tried not to wheeze too loudly, but he was well and truly winded_._

“Oh, d’you know the song too?” Socket asked. “I dunno where I heard it before…”

“Really?” Kaa was both delighted and incredulous. What luck…! “You know sssomething, I’m not quite sssure I do either.”

His head slid down, along the branch, closer to that heat, that sex.

“Perhaps if we put our headsss together we could figure it out.”

“Ah-huh.” Socket nodded. “But no funny business, ok? I’m watching you. Lookin’ right at you.”

“As you should, as you should!” Kaa lifted his head up. “Ssso, tell me… in what contexssst did you hear it before?”

Socket’s face collapsed inwards into a cute grimace.

“That’s the thing, I’m trying, but it’s just…”

“Do you recall any other sssenssses? Scentsss? Texturesss, or perhapsss coloursss?”

Kaa caught her eye with a brief wink of blue and teal, his eyes pulsing for just a moment. Her face slackened very slightly, her pupils shrinking a slight touch. But she otherwise didn’t even seem to notice.

“Huh, maybe.” Socket nodded. “That could be… ooh! Ooh!”

Kaa pulled back to give her space, just in case she remembered too much.

“I think I remember… it was a bear! Yeah, a bear taught me that song, we ate prickly pears and danced, and…”

She leapt up onto her feet, with the expected poise of a cat like her. She noticed a draped loop of coils above her head, and grabbed two fistfuls. Kaa yelped and stiffened. The knot he’d tied himself into up in the tree seemed to be holding.

“Yeah, we were dancing, just like this! And he sang something like…”

She began to shake her hips, dancing to some invisible drum-beat.

“Trust in the… bare necessities…”

As her legs kicked, she swung the pawfuls of coils around with her, remembering the moves she had with her previous dance partner.

“The simple bare necessities…” Socket closed her eyes, getting lost in the memory of the melody.

“That’ssss not the sssong!” Kaa yelped, pulling back from Socket before her claws could dig in too deeply.

Socket was jostled out of her focus, and her face dropped into an annoyed frown.

“Uhm… hmm, maybe you’re right… Yeah, it wasn’t that up-beat, it was more relaxing… though, that one’s a good one, right? Look for the… Bare- ooh ooh!”

She leapt up and down.

“I wonder if this tree’s got prickly pears.”

She bumped her shapely hips against the tree trunk. The drunk cat didn’t know her own strength. Kaa’s veins bulged and he wheezed as he strained to keep his supports from un-knotting. His head pressed against the tree branch, his entire being focused on not falling a second time.

“Rrrrgh… you vexsssatiousss little…!”

“Hmm, guess not…” Socket sat back down again, directly onto Kaa’s snout. Rippling thrashes spread down Kaa’s body from his neck. “Oop, sorry!”

“Mmngh-m…mercssssy…!” his snivelling snout lifted Socket up and down, his tongue flitting between her legs completely by accident. She yelped and pulled him out from beneath her. He was left with a thin trail of her juices all over his snout, and his head lolled and sagged to the side, almost half-deflated.

His grip began to loosen again, and his coils started to slide and unwind.

“Please, not again-” he whimpered, just as he felt his head get yanked back against the branch. His chin collided, dazing him again as he unwound from the branch and shot upwards into the trees.

His throat shot into his mouth as he came to a sudden, crashing halt. Socket’s paws were gripping tightly around his neck, squishing his soft muscles as she pulled with all her might. Her claws dug into the tree and she clenched her teeth.

“G-gotcha… Hang on Mister snake!”

The little one was surprisingly sturdy… strong enough to stop his momentum, buy him a crucial second, and squeeze tight to re-secure himself.

Socket’s paws slowly slid up Kaa’s neck, close to his jaws. His eyes and cheeks bulged as his breathing was stifled.

“Glk…gkkk!”

“Oh, s-sorry!” Socket released her grip. Kaa coughed and wheezed… but did not move. He sighed with relief.

“My sssinceressst… th-thanksss…” he gasped, shaking his head to recombobulate himself.

The cat’s thick scent was still on his nose, though - it was impossible to escape it. Kaa’s insatiable hunger was building, in more ways than one.

There was one particular section of his coils that he was keeping close, but well out of Socket’s sight.

Socket was rubbing her paws together, her face creased with thought once again.

“Hmmm… hang on. Can I hold you again?”

Her tipsy paws grasped at Kaa’s face, and he pulled back as though her paws were ablaze.

“Csssertainly not!” he said. “You’ve had your paws all over me!”

“C’mon!” Socket shook her head and stamped her foot, making the branch wiggle - it was a good thing Kaa wasn’t wound around it anymore. “I think it reminded me of something… Something about the song!”

“The song? What ss- oh~! Yesss… the sssong…”

Kaa focused in, getting back on track, turning on that serpentine charm of his.

“Well, my dear, might I offer you sssomething from the middle?”

Socket nodded, keeping herself as steady as she could as a loop of coils - one of the thicker ones - dangled before her. She grabbed it impatiently, and it twitched and rippled as Kaa giggled loudly.

“C-careful! That’sss very delicate…!”

“Yeah-huh…” Socket said, distractedly running her paws up and down along Kaa’s dark-green spots. She had a look on her face like she had just tasted a new fruit, and hadn’t decided if she liked it or not.

An idea crossed her mind, and Kaa could read it in her eyes. She squeezed Kaa’s coils to support herself, and hoisted herself up onto the dangling loop. Her foot-paws squished into the smooth, firm flesh - by far Kaa’s strongest part - and she nodded.

“Yess… when I heard this song I was… walking on coils that felt exactly like… like-”

Socket gasped, her claws digging into Kaa’s body as the memory came rushing right back. She looked up at Kaa, reaching up an accusatory finger…

“Y…you…”

And as she gazed into the colours in Kaa’s eyes - Yellow, green, blue, white… she remembered how they made her feel. She sank into a familiarly pleasant daze, getting drunker and drunker off the pretty lights.

Kaa winced through the pain of her claws digging in, and kept a big, welcoming smile on his face. His eyes pulsed his will into her mind, and he could see her plunging into trance so easily.

She was all his now. All the buildup and frustration was worth it for this one moment.

“Do you remember how easy it was for you to sssslip under my ssspell?” Kaa’s voice turned mellifluous and charming - as if he had transformed into a wholly different serpent. He was in his element at last, and had her right where he wanted her.

The cat’s white-tipped finger remained half-pointed out towards him, as if paralysed in place. As her pupils dilated and shrank, the whites of her eyes began to ebb and gleam to match the old snake’s gaze. In time, her pupils shrank to pinpricks and vanished entirely, dissolved amidst the whirlpool of colour.

“I remember…” Kaa continued. “And I alssso remember what impeccable balancssse you had.”

Kaa let his coil-loop rock and sway, back and forth. As Socket swung gently, her arms fell down by her sides, dangling and swaying as if guided by a little breeze. Her feet remained perfectly balanced, secure atop the swinging green coils.

Each time the coil-swing glided towards Kaa, he dipped his head in close, almost forehead to forehead, his eyes becoming her whole world. When it swung back, he pulled his head away, making Socket’s sleepy head lurch forward. But the mesmerised cat’s balance never faltered. She just stared, her eyes wide, confused and spiralling. Her jaw was slack, and her tongue spilled out from it, along with a little stream of drool.

“You’re remembering jussst how good thisss felt lassst time, aren’t you?”

Kaa’s tail spiralled down from below and drifted along Socket’s head. It ruffled her hair and made her gargle out a soft purr.

“What sssay you… would you like me to ssssing you to sssleep?”

Kaa was nose to nose with her again. As he pulled back, he dipped his head down low, back up again, forcing Socket into an exaggerated nod. The slight dip seemed to please her, her eyelids drooping as a dazed giggle escaped her curling lips.

“Why, of courssse…”

His coils pushed upwards, lifting her into the air. She was barely airborne for a half second as the loop slid up the backs of her thighs and scooped her up, her thick rump squishing against the coils.

His coils were well secured now - he was this tree’s rightful master now, and the little cat was trapped in his domain.

His coils swung and she swung with them, looking up into the old snake’s ensorcelling eyes.

“Trussst in me…”

As Kaa began to sing, Socket’s dopey gaze brightened a little with recognition, and her mouth opened into a wider smile.

“Jussst in me…”

Socket’s face wore a little confusion - a hint of her pupils returning. A quick pulse of mind-melting colour fixed that, and fixed a smile on her face again.

She was so warm against her, and he could feel her leaking more of her juices over his coils. He’d have to be careful to make sure she didn’t slip.

“Ssspread your legssss…” he hissed, dipping in low. Her throbbing, colourful, crossed eyes followed his as he slid between her thighs.

“And Lussst for me…~” Kaa crooned, his breath and tongue caressing Socket’s puffy slit.

“Prrrh~!” Socket gasped.

“Quiet, please. “You can sssink… deeper down…“

“In my eyes… till you drown… ”

Socket took those words to heart, her eyelids sagging downwards and gradually covering the pastel ripples flowing beneath them.

Kaa pushed his snout right against her cunny, and gave it kiss after kiss. The kisses were long, suckling, probing, coaxing out the nectar of her arousal. Her tail quivered, the tip flicking back and forth as if trying to put out a fire.

“Ahhnnhheh…” Socket was panting now, her body overheating from the intense lust, her already-addled brain losing more and more blood to her loins. She giggled like an idiot - her open mouth turned what would have been a purr into a loud gurgling groan of bliss.

Kaa closed his eyes and luxuriated in the taste. His tongue flitted and explored, enjoying the tang of her flesh and the way it twitched and tried to crush his tongue with strong, needy squeezes. His tongue was far too thin for that, obviously… but other parts of him would be easy to constrict, were he so inclined…

He took his time savouring her. He needed to figure out how to amend the next bit of the song, and what better way to stimulate the brain by playing with his food?

“Mmmuh… Mister Kaaaaa…” Socket gasped, her eyes pulsing faster as her tongue lolled out and waggled like the tongue of a wolf puppy. Kaa’s tongue slid down under her chin, and pushed the tongue back into her mouth. As he did, her lips clamped down on it and she began to suckle.

Kaa shivered with pleasure. Socket had a rather beautiful voice, and a dextrous mouth, when she wasn’t shouting or yowling.

With one last smack, he pulled himself away from her warm netherlips. He’d figured out the next verse, the bridge into the grand finale.

His eyes pulsed again, and her slackened face stiffened into a tight smile, her tongue still sticking out just barely from beneath the cleft of her muzzle.

His now saliva-covered tail beckoned as a platform of coils was offered to her. She slipped off of the hammock and began to march, her arms raising out in front of her as if to grab Kaa’s face and pull it closer. She was greedy for the colourful shapes, and the pleasure they brought her.

Kaa continued the song.

“Sssslip into blisssful torpor…” his coils pushed up to meet each step, luxuriating in the softness of her pawpads, the slight scratch of her claws.

“Sssail on a sssilver missst~” He swung the coils, to see how well she’d keep her balance. He should have expected no less from a cat - her body continued to walk, her head remaining perfectly straight and upright as the rest of her swung.

All this was to prepare her for her final destination - a tunnel of coils, ready to constrict her, a position Kaa had mastered over years of seduction.

She walked right off the end of the coil path, and tipped forward. She fell straight downwards, stiff as a tree-trunk, but his coils were ready for her. They gripped tight when she passed into the middle, her feet sticking out of the top, her head out of the bottom.

“Sssweet little cat, it is time for your final… tryssst…”

Her toes were curling, her claws sheathing and unsheathing. He could feel heat and moisture against his coils - evidently, her juices were still basting him.

“You’re drooling…” He cooed, sweeping down to pour those colours into her eyes. She stared back only for a short time, her eyelids falling closed as her body went slack, pulled by gravity but buffered by Kaa’s coils.

“Ssssexy…” she mumbled. “Sssnake…”

If Kaa was warm blooded, that might have made him blush. He didn’t even prompt that. Was she a fan of him all along?

It gave him second thoughts about eating her. But his rumbling stomach soon put a stop to that.

He pulled her back upwards, slowly revolving her and examining her.

“Trussst in me…” He slackened his coils around her hips, revealing her puffy pussy.

“Jussst… mmmhhmmin me…~” His tail sneaked down to prod inside… as two other stiff pillars rose up a little further up his length.

“Ssspread your legsss….” he loosened them a little more, his tail giving the fork of her legs a little more support as his two cocks slipped inside.

_“Mmmnh, lussst for me…..” _

He would have been mad not to take advantage of her state, of her need… and grant her her unconscious final wish.

As the pleasure slid through his lengths, and she clenched against him, Kaa’s head dipped upwards, towards her upside-down feet. Gravity would have made things easier… but he felt like taking his time. He wrapped his maw around her feet and sucked. She mumbled and mewled.

“Mmmisster Kaaa…”

“Mmmm?” Kaa kept going, thrusting into her to fuck out a little more of her delicious nectar. Her hips would be the most succulent part of her…

“Thank… you…” Socket said. “Feel… sho good… sleepy… really wanna… hnnh…mmmh.”

Her hips kept rolling. Her walls squeezed tighter. Kaa could only fit one of his cocks inside her, the other brushing and rubbing her thighs and getting rewarded with clenches of its own. If memory served correctly, Socket had quite a short fuse, judging from how frequently she’d cry out in pleasure with each orgasm.

Speaking of which…

“Ahhn… mng, nnm…. M-Mister K…Kaaa….!”

Out of consideration for his neighbours, Kaa pushed a firm loop against her open mouth. Even though her teeth dug into it, he kept his cool.

Besides… her nibbles gradually settled down, as did her breathing. Kaa realised, with some delight, that she’d fallen asleep again.

He kept fucking her, his jaw unhinging as he continued his journey down her body. His coils unraveled slowly and easily as his mouth took their place for support. His throat distended, her thick width making an almost perfectly shaped bulge inside him. As he approached her delicious hips, his cock slid free, brushing against her lips once last time before it slid up to her nibbling mouth.

It was a very quick switch. As soon as her mouth was free, Socket let out a loud, roaring snore - one that Kaa interrupted halfway with his tail. The cat giggle-purred, her mouth squeezing with dextrous experience. Her unconscious suckling included slow swirling laps with her tongue.

Kaa moaned as well, his body squeezing her upper body tighter as he suckled his way up to her hips. She’d come by now, and her cum was almost effervescently sweet on his tongue. Not to mention full of those delicious-smelling pheromones. He kept breathing through his nose, working his way down. The lustful old snake’s cocks brushed against the top of Socket’s head.

The thought occurred to him… maybe one last push into her warm, bristle-tongued mouth wouldn’t go amiss.

His tail slipped free as she breathed out, giving him enough time to push one of his shafts - the one that had yet to plunge inside her - into her mouth before she could inhale and snore.

Her throat squeezed, her tongue lathered, and Kaa’s eyes swirled unconsciously as he was overwhelmed by bliss. Her fingers made biscuits inside him as he got up to his elbows. An internal massage… one final gift. He already knew this was the best meal he would have in a long time.

He lingered for a moment, his coils tensing and melting as his cock brushed the back of Socket’s clenching throat. His free cock was throbbing and shivering as if hit by a chilly wind. Kaa gurgled around Socket’s stomach, his eyes pulsating with unconscious rings of green colour. He sucked on it, feeling the folds of soft fat and flesh dimple and squish in his hungry maw.

Kaa normally wouldn’t have dared cum in his food; there was something uncouth about it, in his mind. But right now he was far too horny, too in thrall to his base lusts, to care. He pushed himself in as deep as he could, hearing Socket choke and gulp.

He kept on his journey up her body, fitting her breasts into his wide, distended mouth next. His eyes were still spinning, his sense of self-consciousness obliterated by his bestial needs.

Socket couldn’t even moan, her own eyes throbbing with colour as they drooped up and down, her face flushed with heat and arousal. She only had a little bit of breath, and was swimming in and out of consciousness. Her throat was clenching against Kaa’s cocktip, and her tongue was lolling and lapping desperately. Not to push the shaft free, but pull it in deeper.

Her suffocated squeezing was enough to send Kaa over the edge. He squeezed hard on her breasts as his eyes spun every which way. His body cracked and wriggled like a vine in a monsoon. His free cock spurted long arcs of white through the air, draping over the tree trunk close by, while the other one poured its bounty down her still suckling throat.

Her chokes of surprise sounded quite pleased - not to mention pleasing to Kaa’s ears. It prolonged his whining climax, each muffled moan making him contract around her and making more of her own juices leak out - too far down his throat to taste, but still oh so delicious.

He was ready to finish up, now…

Kaa lifted his head up, his neck making a sort of u-bend as he guided Socket’s upper body upright.The cat was bent by the hips, her legs pushing upwards as she sucked and squeezed. She continued to suckle like a babe, drinking down his seed with dazed abandon. She was in total bliss unaware of her impending doom.

Or… it would have been her doom, if not for Kaa making the usual, stupid mistake of getting distracted.

Kaa was so absorbed in Socket’s taste, and in the thrall of a post-orgasm daze, he didn’t notice the shifting of his coils up above. The cat’s swallowed body took up more and more of his weight and moved past counter-balancing the bracing knot he’d laid up above.

Just as he reached her shoulders, so close to that purring throat, his coils gave way.

“MmnnhmmMMLNG!”

The world seemed to slow to a crawl as Kaa felt himself tumble and twist through the air, shaking Socket every which way on their descent towards the jungle floor.

The soft loam cushioning their fall didn’t really matter. Kaa landed on his chin with a muffled grunt, his jaw opening to gasp as Socket slid free, still smiling and suckling blissfully.

Her trance didn’t fade. Not that it mattered. Lucky for her, none of Kaa’s coils were to fall on her.

They were all headed straight for their owner.

Kaa’s eyes bulged out of his sockets as he looked straight up, whimpering and bracing himself for the all too familiar pain as hundreds of pounds of muscle and scale smothered him. His head squished and his throat spasmed, shooting Socket free from his mouth. His cock popped free from her maw as she slid and sailed along the ground, her head impacting with a tree.

“Owwww…!” Socket writhed and groaned, rubbing her head as she rolled onto her back. “Unnh, wha…?”

She looked over her shoulder, at the big pile of green coils. She smacked her lips. There was a weird, tangy taste in her mouth. Sort of familiar… but she couldn’t place it. Something thin and gooey, like the gel of an aloe plant, was resting at the back of her tongue. Her body was damp and matted too…

She kept smacking her lips, grimacing as she tried to place the flavour… until it all came rushing back.

As she connected the taste to the half-remembered song, she half-gagged, spitting and wiping at her tongue in a vain attempt to get rid of the unwanted flavour.

“GROSS! AUGH! PLEH!”

As Kaa whined and poked his head out of the bottom of that coil pile, Socket set her angry eyes on him as her memory - both of that first encounter, and this one - returned to her. Her face went bright red, and her pupils dilated to turn her eyes totally black.

“Ugh, what’s the big idea?!” Socket yelled at the snake, full of righteous, sobered-up indignation.

“Trying to eat a girl just because she wanted to learn a song?” She marched towards Kaa, her hips swaying, her balled fists pumping.

“Bad snake!”

“Mmplease, mercsssy…!” Kaa tried to protest, but it was no good. She stomped on his head a few times, grinding her pawpad into his nose, before giving him one last kick in the sinus.

“Ugh. Serves you right.” she stomped away. “Ugh, it’s a stupid song anyway…”

Somehow, Kaa found that to be the most humiliating part.

As the cat grumbles and stomps receded into distant silence, Kaa cast his weary gaze upwards while unwinding himself from his messy, scaled prison.

The birds were staring down at him, all very much unamused.

“I sssilencsssed her for a little while, didn’t I? Would you be ssso kind as to help a poor ssssnake out?”

A chorus of tuts, followed by the flapping of feathers, gave him his answer.

“Ohhh… woe is me…” Kaa groaned, with a touch of anger in his voice. “Nexssst time, I’ll get her in my ssstomach… nexssst time.”

If nothing else, you couldn’t fault Kaa for his optimism. Unfounded as it was.