4 Something about barks and dogs? (1/2)

Aaaaaaah!

Please don't be poisoning, please I beg you! Aaaaaaah!

My mind, I see pictures within my mind that I have never seen before. I can see stars and constellations changing forms, taking on shapes of strange symbols that I have never seen before. I can't, I can't...

I'm going to fe .... t.

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Ummm, where am I?

Why's-what is happening?

”... Up... ”

What? Who is there?!

What is this place, I am soooo confused. I was, yes, I was reborn as a snake and then... The pain? how did I get into this room? Is it right to call it a room tho? There is nothing but white all around. Where ever I look there is nothing, complete nothingness.

Did I die again?

No that doesn't seem right, unless this is heaven, hmmm maybe.

But where are the beautiful angel girls I can spend my time with, where are the harps and the bouncy clouds? I never knew heaven would be this boring...

If this is heaven, I wonder what is hell like.

”... ke up...”

I take that back!

Phew, that voice scared me, but what is that? It sounds like it is trying to tell me something.

It sounds very warped tho and I can't even tell is it male or female that is saying it. But I feel like it is telling me something important...

”Wake Up!”

- - -

*cough* *cough* *cough*

I couldn't breathe. That thing I drank, it made my body morph into a pretzel from the piercing headache that it caused.

Right!

The pictures I saw before ending up in that room. A dancing night sky, swarming with stars of many colours. The dance the stars performed many shapes some of which looked nothing like anything that I've seen before, some not even appearing three dimensional.

Whatever that sweet liquid was, it sure had nothing to do with water.

But I feel like there is more new knowledge inside my head. Things I shouldn't know, the things that make sense yet seem unreal, mystical. Like fog disappearing into the back of my mind as soon as I try to think about it.

Ughhh!

If I try to force it my brain starts experiencing a soul stabbing pain, and the pain spreads all over my body.

Wait, I feel like something new is inside my body...

I can feel it but I can't point my tail at it... It doesn't feel like a physical change. No, I would be able to feel it through my scales using the touch of my tail.

The more I think about this the more confused I get. My mind is starting to repeat itself.

Let's think positive.

I'm still alive!

This is the only thing going for me right now. I'm stuck in this cave surrounded by snakes, even though I'm one of them. Weird tremors keep occurring, the fountain somehow ”healed” itself, probably has something to do with that liquid starlight...

Liquid starlight?

Where did that thought come from?

Ouch!

Don't think about it, don't think about it!

This is getting me nowhere.

Hmmm. How long was I out of it? It couldn't be for days, right? That would mean that every single sibling out there is at least four times bigger than me, no?

Might as well take a peek.

While taking a peek outside I notice that the number of my siblings is so low at this point that I should be able to sneak past them and get through that mysterious hole that appeared out of nowhere.

Wait, why are my sibling only a bit bigger than me now, while they were much bigger than that during the murder fest a while back?

Could it be our freakishly fast metabolism? That should be handy, at least I won't need to worry about becoming a balloon from eating too much...

Heh, it just now crossed my mind, but whenever I read about a character in the novels that eats monsters or something along those lines, they usually either chew them or straight up absorb them, but I, as a snake, don't have these options. I can't chew, I can't turn into a puddle of slime and absorb them, I can only stuff them into my belly and wait for some time. Thank god I don't need to wait for weeks as I should if I were a snake from my previous life.

One needs to be grateful for any fortune that comes his or her way.

Hmm, one, two, three,...

Thirteen.

How low we have fallen, there are only thirteen, well fourteen snakes inside this cave at the moment with myself included. As the cave is rather spacious there is a pretty wide gap between all of us, seems like they started avoiding me as much as they are avoiding each other right now.

Is it because of the starlight thing?

See, once the dice starts rolling in your favour, the good things start piling up.

*sniff*

O, hey, the air in here stopped being so stale and smelly. That hole probably leads to the outside, but the question is, am I strong enough to battle my way through any dangers that might come my way because I don't think a baby snake looks too scary to things that might lurk beyond the darkness of that hole.

There shouldn't be much thinking about it though, there are only two options by the way I see it right now. Option one, stay and starve or get eaten; or option two, go and maybe get eaten while maybe starving...

Option two sounds fine I guess. Lemme just pack my things and set out.