[Stay home, the orders said. Stay inside, even. The trains back to Sumarlok weren't running, anyway.
Kaede was usually the type to openly ignore such instructions. But...then sun had gone and sunk below the level of the trees, which brought a late spring chill to the streets. Normally tolerable, but no sooner had Kaede slipped out of a window than cold sank through to her bones. She only had clothes on the still-human part of her, and those striped scales might as well have been paper for how much they kept her warm.
So, the lamia had crawled back inside through the same window she'd escaped from. Quite literally; her arms and vectors were the only things that wanted to work quickly enough. The monster had taken over one of the common rooms--not intentionally, but, well. All this snake had to go somewhere, and even wrapped up into a coil there was still some fifteen feet of her.
On top of this sulky red, gold, and black garter striped pancake, a stubby horned person flopped over on her belly like a sadly deflated and rather disgruntled cherry.
Late April
Kaede was usually the type to openly ignore such instructions. But...then sun had gone and sunk below the level of the trees, which brought a late spring chill to the streets. Normally tolerable, but no sooner had Kaede slipped out of a window than cold sank through to her bones. She only had clothes on the still-human part of her, and those striped scales might as well have been paper for how much they kept her warm.
So, the lamia had crawled back inside through the same window she'd escaped from. Quite literally; her arms and vectors were the only things that wanted to work quickly enough. The monster had taken over one of the common rooms--not intentionally, but, well. All this snake had to go somewhere, and even wrapped up into a coil there was still some fifteen feet of her.
On top of this sulky red, gold, and black garter striped pancake, a stubby horned person flopped over on her belly like a sadly deflated and rather disgruntled cherry.
Her hair was even the right color.]