From Savage to Sensual: Chapter 2 - Serpentine Duality
Artwork by Mokuseikaze
Story by me
Vinn by Greenwing
I wish I liked this more, but something about it feels a little stilted near the end. Dont worry, when I post the 'grand shebang', comprised of all three chapters to this story as one, it will all be edited and awesome. I'm just posting this here, now, because I Really want to get it posted, as I have something planned I want to finish and post tomorrow.
In this story, Vinn deals with the loss of leera the night before by resorting to potion use to heal the wounds she inflicted. However, once they meet up, Leera feels super bad about having hurt him, so she makes it up to him the way only she knows how.
PArt 2 of 3.
Immediately after Leera's panicked disappearance, Vinn tried to follow her tracks only to find they didn't really lead anywhere. She may have been a huge, bulky-bodied python naga, but she could move quickly, and her trail went dark as soon as it disappeared into the market. Part of the lizard wanted to take a risk and continue to look for her, but he knew that would be fruitless, so he gave up for the night and went back home to think about what had happened.
As he lie in his bed, staring at the wooden ceiling of his partially-underground home, he tried to piece together all the things that converged to make things happen as they did.
Leera was a saurossin - same as him - but she was a completely different family; a mutation of snake and bipedal dragon without the wings. According to her and the locals who feared her, the tribe she came from were known for cruelty, abuse, and murder in search of a sort of pyschological need to dominate and torture prey. Over time, their bodies adapted to allow the prey to remain alive inside, struggling and scared, for up to a month before the digestive cycle restarted and their gut-juices turned to digestive acid instead of the safe-to-inhale fluid that made up their inner workings.
According to Leera, she still had a bit of a mean streak in her, where she enjoyed the dominance play, and still got off to her prey struggling. She was trying to slowly integrate into society while also finding someone who was okay with being her meal in an elaborate roleplay to satisfy her psychological hunger while in town to buy a cow to satisfy her physical hunger. All seemed pretty straightforward, and Vinn intended to be that female's food, repeatedly.
If only he could get her to be a bit more gentle about it.
It was understandable that part of her needs included the more powerful dominant urges that came with constriction or flat out crushing, but she was taking it a bit farther than it needed to. He didn't mind a nice firm snug - in fact he loved it - but when the power kept him breathless and seemed to crunch his shoulders together, it was too much. If he could properly convey that subtle shift in power and get her to lighten up on the use of teeth, she'd be a wonderful, cozy trip for him or any other prey that wanted to see what it was like.
He rolled onto his side and stretched his arms, trying his best to keep his shoulder muscles from stretching too far. The greatest pain was down his spine, right under the bones of his shoulders. He tried to reach around and rub at it himself, but the motion just hurt the other shoulder even more. After a wince of defeat, he rolled onto his back again, arms and legs spread wide, purple sheet covering only half of his body from the waist down.
"Hmph, flesh feels better, especially slick, warm flesh." Vinn was a little disappointed he didn't have a snake coiled up around him, but that was fine. He'd find her again; she wasn't going to skip town on one bad experience. Based on what little he knew about the naga, her life since opting to leave her barbaric life behind her was nothing but bad experiences, and she was still around.
The lines of puncture marks across his chest began to tingle, so he gave them a rub, hoping the itchiness went away. Perhaps he'd go to the market again, see if anyone had a potion for healing. Yeah, good idea.
With that revelation in mind, he blew out the single candle that lit his room and drifted off into sleep.
The next morning, Vinn awoke to find his back and shoulders were hurting even more than the night before. Something as simple as leaning over at the edge of his bed made him feel stiff and old.
"Ugh. Good job, Vinn. Shoulda went to the market yesterday while you were out."
Once he dismissed the resentment of his past self, he managed to make it to his common room and start picking up the mess of overturned chairs and tables that his naga guest's body had strewn about. Just one big open area in the middle where she'd coiled up. There was a lingering fruity smell still in the air, since he didn't do much to clean up the mess they'd made. He lived in an earthy home, with dirt for a floor; the fluid she'd expelled alongside him was easily absorbed and quickly disappeared. Not a lot you can do to fix a dirt floor short of shovelling it out and replacing it with newer, only slightly less dirty dirt.
The task of realigning his home took him quite a long time, since every movement just seemed to make his posture worse, but he was a dignified lizard, he'd not leave his home in shambles should be be graced by an unexpected guest! No, there were some things you didn't didn't ignore; cleanliness was one of them.
After he finished, he took a quick bath with the aid of a firebrand potion that turned the water steamy and hot. He couldn't dawdle long, as he had places to be and the water wouldn't stay hot forever. It did loosen his muscles just enough that he could walk without pain, but he still suffered minimal pain when bending over.
Not the good kind of pain. No need to get silly.
Now clean, warm, loose, and with a re-ignited vigor, Out Vinn went to the dusty New Jorai streets, heading down the mountain to the marketplace.
Busy as it normally was - which was to say it was crowded - Vinn found himself able to slip between the mass of bodies with ease. Many of them were bigger than he was, so they took little note of the green-scaled lizard. He knew where he was headed, and had no interest in dicking around with snack food carts or groceries. Vinn wanted potions, and powerful ones. In his weeks in New Jorai, he knew only one vendor that sold the potions that would help him out.
The merchant was a quadrupedal gryphon, black and white in color with patterns of spots and stripes and the most intense, penetrating blue eyes Vinn had ever seen. He was sitting behind the merchant stand, with his wares all proudly displayed. Vials, beakers, flasks, flagons, and all manner of transparent fluid receptacles lined up in neat, color coded rows.
Vinn stood in front of it, under the shade-offering overhang, to get a good look around a rather obese hippogryph mare. Looked like she was pregnant, with feathers of auburn and gold, hair of a palomino equine. Once she paid her coin and left, Vinn was the last and only customer waiting in line.
"So how can I help you again, sir Vinn. You know, you're one of my favorite customers." The gryph declared as he laid a paw down on the edge of the shelf.
"Posh. I can't be the best, you've only known me a month, perhaps less. And you've known my name perhaps half that time. What could I possibly do to be your favorite?"
The gryph tapped his talon on a bottle of light pink potion with a yellow band around it. "See this potion? It's the rarest and most expensive potion I create, and you are one of the only ones who buy it, and you get it as fast as I can make it!"
Vinn picked up the potion bottle and looked at its label; 'deep intimacy' it read. It was the potion he got to slip from one end of Firon to the other. Yeah, he really liked that potion. "True, true. I'm looking for something else completely, this time. No kinky stuff, just a good old healing potion. Got a little too chummy with an overzealous snake and she kinda squeezed a little tight. Neck, shoulders, and back hurt a lot. If not for the firebrand potion-enhanced bath I had this morning, I'd be hobbling about the marketplace like a hunchback. So thanks for that!"
"It's my pleasure. Here, something simple." the gryph grabbed a tiny little red-potion filled vial from behind the shelf and tossed it to Vinn, who barely had the reflexes to catch it. "Here ya go, drink up and give me the vial back; the small ones are expensive to replace and hard to make."
"How much do I owe you?" asked Vinn as he rifled around in his satchel.
"It's on me, this time. Healing potions are one of the easiest to make, the few drops in there would heal a near-mortal wound, let alone sore muscles. Just take it and toss the vial back and I'll call it your 'buy ten get one free' bonus for being a repeat customer."
Vinn hesitated for a moment before uncorking the potion and gulping it down. It had a faintly bitter taste, but was pretty neutral. He felt a gentle tingling spreading through his body, but the dull pain was still there.
"Don't worry, takes a minute or two to work. You'll be fit as an equine stud by the time you get home, promise." The gryph laid his palm out for Vinn to place the vial.
"So what now?" Vin asked, licking the roof of his mouth to wipe the remnants of the thick fluid from his tongue.
"Well, I wouldn't object to picking up a few potions. I take requests, you know; name your fantasy and I'll see what I can do to make it happen!" His beak spread wide in a gape-grin as his wings floofed out a bit.
Vinn laughed and happily took a couple of the 'Deep intimacy' potions as well as a few of the healing potions and another firebrand potion. The half dozen of them put together still fit easily in his satchel, which could hold eight potions in simple vials as well as a specialized, sectioned-off coin pouch. He paid for his wares plus a gratuity for the healing potion he was gifted and left to head back home.
Back his form woven through the mass of scales, feathers, hair and fur before finally making it out of the crowded market, onto the less-clogged streets of upper New Jorai, heading up the mountain to his home.
Halfway up, he was stopped by the sound of a low hissing in an alleyway. He sighed, having theorized immediately who and what it was. Happy as he'd have been to see her, part of him really wanted to find her.
"Yesss?" He hissed at the darkness between buildings.
A jungle-green speckled tail snaked its way out from the shadows and wrapped around his waist, careful to not crush his satchel. It was definitely Leera's tail, those patterns and that color were unmistakeable. The powerful appendage yanked him into the shadows and quickly spun him around in a warm, gentle coil. He couldn't see for sure, but he could feel her snout pressed to his cheek.
"Hey Leera. Good to see you again. "Vinn said in a flat monotone. He was, of course, incredibly happy to see her - his initial intention was to search for her - but part of him retained the gruff dissappointment at her abrupt escape.
"Oh, don't be like that, Vinn. I can feel your heart beating like butterflies in your chest." She scolded him.
Vinn had completely forgotten how sensitive snake bodies were to vibrations and the subtle pulses of a heartbeat. "S-sorry, Leera. You know I'm still upset with you, right?" his vision was adjusting to the dark and he could see her reasonably well now.
She nodded. "Yessir, I do."
"And you know why?"
Another single, brisk nod. "Indeed."
"So we're amicable again?"
Her tongue flicked gentle. "Were we ever not?"
Vinn laughed gently. "I suppose we weren't, no. Can you let me to from this hug, though? Got some potions about ready to kick in and I am not so sure I want to undo that with an all-to-eager hug, you know?"
Her coils loosened and flattened to the ground, leaving him standing in the alleyway looking up at her. His lips cracked into a smile, then he hopped up onto her body to give her torso a hug. "Thanks for coming back, my snakey mistress!" Once the pressure from the coils subsided, he felt the potion getting to work, releasing him from his dull aches and pains. Only a few seconds later, he felt revived fully!
Leera cocked her head to the side and flicked her tongue out, confused. "M-misssstresss?" She hissed - not angry, but drawn out in a thoughtful drone.
"Well, no, but it works. So let's go back to my place and -"
She pulled away from him and held the lizard at arms length. "No, not your home, mine."
Vinn Gulped, worried at just what her 'home' was.
"Oh, don't be like that, Vinn. I'm not taking you back to my tribe, I have my own home far away from them. Other side of town, in fact. In the Jorian Woods. Come come, I have much to show you!" The massive serpent dashed out from between the buildings, waiting for him in the middle of the street with an arm out. "Get on, we'll be there within the hour if you ride me!"
Vinn couldn't help but chuckle at the double entendre. "If you insist." He hopped up onto her form right where her body touched the ground, and they zipped out from New Jorai at an amazing pace, her body only slipping from side to side behind him; from snout to where Vinn rest his rump, she stayed relatively still, hovering 10 Centimeters off the ground, arms on her back, clutched together between fingers. An odd way to travel, but it seemed to work for her, since her body glided across the dust, dirt, rocks, cobblestone, and eventually leaf-covered forest floor of New Jorai and the Jorian Woods.
Leera's home was absolutely nothing like what Vinn thought it would be like. He was imagining...well, nothing. He hadn't thought about what kind of home she would have, but this was something special.
She lived in the side of a rocky outcropping in the forest. Off the beaten path, there was a clearing where it looked like a quake split the land, and she'd dug out a liveable hole in the risen section of the forest underneath the rocks and dirt and trees above. There were large windows facing the morning sun, and a huge stone door that was clearly too big for anyone other than her to move.
"I never thought about a snake's den..." Vin Mavelled.
"Naga." She corrected him. "Now many times must I remind you, I'm not a snake."
"I apologize. A Naga's den. It's nice." He hopped off her body, then quickly regretted it. The feel of her powerful muscles tensing and releasing between his legs, scales massaging his thighs and the underside of his tail was a truly wonderful sensation; he kept his willpower in check to ensure he didn't get excited. With her sensitive serpent tongue, Leera must have tasted his arousal, but he wasn't going to invite the attention.
She slithered around him to her front door, body prone behind her for leverage as she pushed it open with a creaking groan. "There we go! Come on in!"
Vinn was positively dwarfed by her. Just her torso alone - a mere fraction of her body length - was thrice his size; her bulging body, laid flat on the ground, came up to his waist! Two coils of that and he'd disappear into the knot of her body! He couldn't help but love it; he loved snakes as it was, a large naga like this was something special to behold, to feel her, see her, and smell her all over.
"You coming?" She asked, pulling the last of her body in with her, tail slipping into the darkness of her den.
Vinn happily followed, practically dancing his way along. She quickly lit a fire near the doorway that trailed around the rim of the room until it returned to the other side of the door.
Inside was even bigger than it looked from outside! IT was simple on the inside, just a dome of stone with tree roots sticking out from the roof, the two massive windows on either side of the door with the line of fire just below it. Quite simple, but nice. The only thing that was rather offputting was a set of piles of bones on either end of the home.
"Leera, what's with the bones?"
She laughed, whole body heaving as she did so, tail gently curling around his leg. "Oh, that's a scare tactic. Bought them from the butchers to spice the place up. Keeps intrepid explorers from a home invasion of the most unpleasant type. Lots of locals still fear and hate me. Frankly I'm amazed that the Jorian officials haven't sent a raiding party out to capture and kill me."
Vinn idly stepped out of the coil of tail that was around his leg and backed away. "So, just a scare tactic? Not like, the victims of people who you lured back to your home?"
"Oh, maybe...jussst maybe!" She leaned down in close to flick her tongue at Vinn, the tip of it slapping his muzzle. The light aroma of fear was in the air around him. "Of courssse, if that was so, don't you think they'd have killed me by now? Dragons and mage warriors could likely take me down." She pulled away and patted her body. "Or maybe I'm just messing with you. I'm a snake, as you like to say. Like any snake, all that's left when I'm done eating, all that's left is hair. Bones are calcium, you know! No, if I ate them, there'd be no bones. I promise you I haven't killed anyone in years." She grinned, showing the rows of hook-like, backwards-facing teeth glimmering in the flickering lamplight of her home. "And besides, can you imagine how bones like that would feel on the way out? Ouch!" Her hind end tightly coiled in feigned pain.
It was hard to fight that logic, really. Snakes - and Naga by extention - digested all the meal, except the hair. No way she made the piles of bones herself. The very thought of having pointy bones coming out hurt Vinn to think about it. Content with her explanation, he laid his satchel off beside the door and hopped back up onto her body, tail over one side, legs dangling over the other. "So, with that bit of unpleasantness behind us, tell me, what have you got on your mind? Why are we here?"
She blinked - yes, she blinked, as she wasn't a snake, she was a Naga - in disdain. "I just thought it would be nice for you to see my home. I've seen yours, and it's nice. I suppose there's no harm in bringing you here, even if it is pretty simple and I don't really have anything." She curled up on herself, laying her torso down on her body beside Vinn, flicking her tongue slowly, resting it on her own form.
"Oh, come now, Leera, this place is awesome! Unlike anything I've seen before!" He hopped to the side and lay on his belly, facing her with his chin on his hands, same as she was laying. His hips straddled her form, feeling her every breath and heart beat against his scales. "And it's simple. I like simple. Not everything needs to be complicated to be enjoyable."
She flicker her tongue again, this time a bit faster as the edged of her maw curled up a bit, the faintest bit of drool trickling out the side to glisten in the lamp light. "Vinn, my delicious little morsel, I can taste your arousal. You can't hide it from me. Not to mention I can feel your increased heart rate throbbing around my body."
A blush quickly formed on his cheeks as he sat upright, keeping his crotch from rubbing on her scales. "I-I'm sorry, I-"
She interrupted him by pressing a finger against his lips. "Shhhhhhh!" her cooing morphed into a gentle, snakey hiss. "You don't need to apologize. I was hoping you'd ssstill be interested after yesterday. I owe you for ssso much." her tail swung around and wrapped around his midsection, lifting him up as her form shifted about until it was a knot. It released, leaving him to plop heavily on her coils.
His lower half tingled in delight as he crawled over her body to get a proper look in her eye. "Eat me." He commanded, a serious look on his face to assure her he was serious.
"No."
He blinked. Why in the world would she say no to that? She loved that, or at least he assumed she did. Every minute of their previous encounter screamed "I am eternally hungry and love to eat", so why in the world would she say no? "Why no?"
"I can't risk it. Last time I got caught up in the moment, and you ended up hurt. I can't risk that again." Her coils tightened around him, smothering his legs and lower body without constricting him at all. Her vent pressed against his hip, a curve line of moisture dampening his scales. "I can't just say I want to be peaceful and passionate, I need to prove it. If that means quitting that vile fetish entirely, then so be it."
The moist ventral scale peeled back, and Vinn tried to push it away, refraining from giving into the temptation. "But Leera, you don't understand! I want it! The pain was worth it! I got better, and look, over at my satchel, I have more potion to fix any pain you give me! There are ways to make it okay, ways to make it better! You just need to work on your self control!" he patted her belly scales as she continued to press her body against his.
"No. I'm sorry, Vinn, but it's not happening. You can either partake in the pleasures my other end has to offer, or we can sip tea and complain about what is, what i snot, and what may or may not be. Hmm?" She leaned down close to him, nuzzling at his neck, flicking her tongue down to slap his chest. "Persssssonally, I'd prefer if you enjoyed the pleasssuresss!" She hissed right into his ear, sending tingles down his spine and tail.
It was that very moment that Vinn's disposition switched from passive and hesitant to eager and insatiable. He didn't just dive in, but his reservations were dashed and his reluctance dissipated the instant he felt her surprisingly warm breath tickling his ear hole.
"Ffffine!" He cooed at her as he rolled over onto his side, still laying atop her. They gave one another a gentle nuzzle as he pried her ventral scale open, exposing her deep cherry pink flesh, smothered in thick, viscous fluids that glistened in the lamp light. The aroma that wafted out of her stung his nostrils with how sharp it was, but it wasn't unpleasant; it was the scent of arousal and fertility. He was a little disappointed their species weren't compatible; he'd have loved to fill her with Vinn-eggs. She had two distinct holes, only one of which was tender and oozing, the other was just moist with runoff from the other.
His members stirred in his slit, poking their way out against the underside of her lower belly, pressing against her tender flesh just beneath her opening.
"Go on, Vinn, you've earned it thanks to your patience with my wild side. So, go wild." her voice was soft, quiet, distant as she pressed her body against his, her moist slit pressing against his belly, soaking him from the waist down.
His eyes narrowed as his legs weakened, the pleasure taking over him, cocks slowly slipping from his slit already at full mast. Both of them, spread in a V, with his own fluid dripping out the end to mix with hers, only to be squished between his belly and the rim of her ventral scales. HE reached down to aim one of them at her opening when a thought crossed his mind. "Wait, Leera, why in the world would this be good for you? I don't mean to self depreciate, but I can't imagine you'd get the proper stimulation from me...." HE trailed off, suddenly a touch selfconscious. "It would be like a toothpick in me. Little more than a splinter."
She smiled and hissed gently at him, still nuzzling into his neck over the folds of her own body. "Please, don't you worry about me, this is all you; I'm doing this for you and you alone.
Her opening was as wide as his hips - maybe wider - so he had a hard time believing any part of his form would satisfy her, but he had less than a moment to protest or insist before she twisted, repositioned, and pressed the folds of her exposed flesh right against his cocks, smothering them from tip to slit in one rapid motion. Her dexterity was outstanding, though that wasn't surprising to the lizard who knew plenty about the versatility of snake bodies. Much to his delight, her opening was far tighter than he'd ever imagined for its size. A ring of muscles just inside her was clenching shut from all angles, gripping him as she pulsated her tail end back and forth on him. IT was quite astonishing to see a hole that could easily have smothered him from head to toe managing to please his members.
Though the copious amounts of fluids mixed with her surprising body heat certainly accentuated each and every subtle motion to feel like a full stroke in and out. While her flesh shifted only an inch back and forth over his exposed length, the snugness of the tender flesh amplified the feelings beyond what he was used to.
"Leera...How are you?"
She pressed a finger to his lips and hissed at him. "Shhhh!" her form bulged up and pressed down on him, forcing his rump against another of her coils before peeling away, ventral scale still peeled back to show a gentle gape in the flesh before being pinched shut, a thick gooey drop of her own fluids splashing on Vinn's thighs.
He couldn't help but grasp gently at the sides of her body around her opening, but the fluids made her sleek scales even slicker than usual, and he couldn't get a grip. He just wanted that moist tender hole smothering his snout! It wasn't too much to ask was it? Just one taste....
As if she read his mind, she lifted the portion of her body at the base of her tail high above Vinn, squeezing the muscles tight to force out a lengthy trickle of light pink fluid onto him, splattering over his chest, neck, and snout; he gaped his maw and licked up as much of the sweet concoction as he could, gulping it back and finding it to taste oddly familiar.
"You like that, Vinn?" Leera cooed, her body writhing about beneath him, her vent opening and closing to 'chew' on his members, sucking on them as they tensed and tugged.
Vinn's eyes rolled back in his skull as his tongue lolled out, lower jaw trembling with delight. This pleasure was a combination of sucking, fucking, and rubbing against slickened snake scales - so in other words it was perfect.
Much to his chagrin - not to mention embarrassment - he came almost instantly! The hot fluid erupted from deep within him to inject into her opening, disappearing between the folds of hot, pink flesh. He clamped his jaw shut and grunted gently, wrapping both arms around her tail to hold her in place as he finished up inside her.
As his hot cum splattered against her vent, she hissed and slapped her tongue against Vinn's neck, a convulsion slipping through her form from shoulder to tail, eventually clamping around his cock so tight that it forced him out, leaving the last bit of his seed to stick between his belly and her tail. She could tell by the heat of the blood rushing to his cheeks that he was embarrassed having finished so quickly, but she only let it on that she knew by the sly wink.
"S-sorry." Vinn stammered as her form pulled away from him, leaving his belly and thighs looking like a sticky mess, spiderwebs of cum and lubrication spreading from his scales to hers.
"I told you, Vinn, no need to be sorry. I bailed on you quick yesssterday, you dessserve releassse!" She smiled and nuzzled in at him, but he hopped away from her loving caress to lay, belly-down, on her mass of coils. "What are you doing?"
Vinn smiled up at her and gave a sly wink and nod before digging both of his hands into her opening, forcing apart her ventral scales as he did so. Her muscles clamped tight around both elbows, but he kept pushing at her, spreading his limbs apart to open her up.
She could have stopped him - she was strong enough there was nothing Vinn could do without her permission - but she didn't. This sudden vigor sent tremors up her spine, a pleasure she was happy to let him indulge.
"Just helping a lady out, dear." Vinn said, his voice muffled into her pink slit flesh. He gave his lips a long, loving lick before pulling his arms out and replacing the emptiness between scales with his snout, nuzzling into the flesh, licking it, and sucking back all of the fluids of hers he could get. Her skin, scales, and inner flesh had great muscle control, but as she loosened up he could tell she'd be more than capable of passing things many times thicker than her through that vent of hers.
He gave another lick to her folds, and that's when it hit him. This was the same fluid in her belly! The same fluid he inhaled on his last trip through her!
"Leera?"
She pulled her head up from a relaxed, blissful flop. "Yes?"
"Your fluids, your lubricants, are they...The same as other parts of you?"
She smiled and hissed. "Yissss! All the time, any time!"
Vinn stopped nuzzling into her to look up and meet her gaze. "So you're telling me that you can, at any time, house someone in you, if they go in...here?" he looked back down at the messy mass of wrinkled pink he was practically diving into, contemplating the implications of that. He could actually see the muscles and skin beneath her scales flush a pink in every meter of coil bundled up beneath him, and he realized: She could, she loved it, and she was embarrassed!
She rolled her torso around to look at him, cheeks ablush.
He wore a devious grin before diving back in, nuzzling into her opening; the feeling of flesh parting to slip over his muzzle returned the blood to his loins. A few more gentle wriggles, and he felt her ventral scale slide over his neck, smothering him. He took in a deep breath and found that, yes indeed, this was the same fluid inside her! HE could breathe, even if it was a little labored.
Before he had time to truly enjoy his form being swallowed by her birth canal, he felt a tug on his tail that yanked him out, the tip of his neck frill catching on her insides before being exposed to the cool air of her den.
He tried to protest, but the fluid in his lungs prevented him from doing so.
"Not yet, dear." Leera cautioned, leaving him smothered from neck to nose in her fluids. She closed her vent up, leaving only a gently slit of exposed pink as she pulled it away, letting her tail disappear into the pile of coils. He clearly was ready to protest some more, but she pressed her lips to his, silencing him with a deep kiss from her forked tongue. "I promise you will, I'll let you explore every inch of me, inside and out, just...please, take it slow."
HE coughed a few times to clear his lungs, but didn't complain further, instead opting to smile and snuggle into her...
...To be continued, because I'm a dick to end it like that!