[She wasn't cold enough to shiver, Kaede was reasonably sure. She was also reasonably sure you could get cold enough to stop shivering entirely. But that wasn't what this was, surely. It was just...cold and she didn't want to move, even when she heard the door open and someone come in.
The lamia stirred, lifting her head up in what should have been a sharp spring to attention, but was instead almost comically slow and jerky.]
D-don't-- [ugh her voice was all stuttering and pathetic sounding. The lamia grumbled to herself while she gathered her breath and energy, speaking a bit slower and quieter this time but without that stutter.] -blanket wouldn't...fit, anyway. [She was a lot of snake.] Heater would...work better.
[But there was just a normal sized vent in this room, and up off the ground. Kaede would have periscoped her body all the way up to the ceiling to reach it, but she was too cold. And thus she stayed in this coil of cold, sulking scales.]
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The lamia stirred, lifting her head up in what should have been a sharp spring to attention, but was instead almost comically slow and jerky.]
D-don't-- [ugh her voice was all stuttering and pathetic sounding. The lamia grumbled to herself while she gathered her breath and energy, speaking a bit slower and quieter this time but without that stutter.] -blanket wouldn't...fit, anyway. [She was a lot of snake.] Heater would...work better.
[But there was just a normal sized vent in this room, and up off the ground. Kaede would have periscoped her body all the way up to the ceiling to reach it, but she was too cold. And thus she stayed in this coil of cold, sulking scales.]