Woman: Erieye Stock
Snake: Fear Before Valor
Maybe she should have paid more attention to Georgio's old auntie. But it was hard to take him seriously when he was so tied to his clan's matriarchs. It was one of the things she found disgusting about him. He'd been sexy enough when they started dating but he'd gotten too serious too soon for her tastes. After a few months, she stopped answering his phone calls and ignored him on social media.
They'd run into each other (old aunt in tow) on the street and their calm conversation had quickly escalated into a public shouting match. She shouted at him that she never, ever wanted to see him again. She turned on her heel before he could come up with something to say and left at a fast walk.
The parting words from his side came not from him but from the old auntie.
"You girlie, you spurn Georgio. You regret, you will. Every month goes by, you regret."
She dismissed it as dementia until two seeks later. It was the start of her most fertile period. She knew within a couple of days when that would be because she could read her body well. That night she had strange dreams of snakes and slithering.
When she awoke, she felt strange and very different. Tossing back her sheet, she screamed as she caught sight of her body. She was mostly a huge python. And worse yet, if she didn't consciously control it, her tongue tended to dart out randomly providing her with a new (and mostly unwanted) blast of scents and tastes from the world around her.
It would be three days of isolation in her apartment before she awoke normal once more.