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Blu
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Strong hands grabbed him and held him up as the snakes of the woman's hair reached out and sunk their fangs into various body parts. The venom allowed the gorgon to move Kal's body in the area where he'd been bitten. Getting him standing, she pulled him over and leaned him up against a nearby wall.
Terror gripped Kal's mind. He was still recovering from the shock of believing he was about to die when the searing pain from the snakes' venom began exploding everywhere they bit him. It faded quickly, which explained why the gorgon repositioned him as fast as possible after each bite. The venom's effects may have disappeared within a couple of seconds, but each bite left two deep puncture wounds that made Kal want to howl in pain.
The mage's mind reeled in panic as he realized another reason he couldn't scream in pain, no matter how much he wanted to. He wasn't breathing.
Fear welled up once again as he waited for the sign that his body was out of air and he was about to die. The gorgon stepped back for a moment, her hair hissing in alarm. She glared at him as all of the runes on his vambraces lit up. They flashed repeatedly in hopes of some way staving off suffocation. The woman's petrifying gaze didn't fall under a poison or disease, rendering those runes useless. The pain from the bites vanished along with the wounds as the healing rune pulsed but none of the others had any effect. Falling into despair, Kal awaited the end as he realized there was nothing he could do.
A minute passed, then another. The mage knew that if he had been swimming his lungs would be screaming for air right now. A third minute went by. He had another equally terrifying revelation: his heart wasn't beating either. There was no low rushing noise in his ear that he could only hear when he was being very still and surrounded by silence. Nor could he feel the almost imperceptible rhythm of his heart pumping blood through his veins. More time passed and Kal's expected end never came. Though his mind still worked, it was like his body was frozen in time.
Startled at first by the light show from his runes, the gorgon approached him again. She bent down and one of the snakes bit him on the inside of his elbow. Lifting his arm, she deftly untied the laces on his vambrace, tossing it off to the side then doing the same on the other arm. She then undid the fastener on his cloak, pushing it off his shoulders and tossing it on top of the bracers. A hand pulled his shirt away from his chest and one of her snakes bit down on the collar. It thrashed about for a second until the tiny teeth inside its mouth for holding prey tore the fabric. Gripping each side of the tear, the gorgon ripped the front of his shirt open. A moment later it joined the growing pile of his clothing.
Undoing his belt, the woman tugged his pants down. "Nice," she said looking at his cock, "I'm gonna like this'n." She spoke in the common tongue, but with a heavy Dwarvish accent.
Kal's eyes were locked on a portion of the ceiling across the room because of the way she had leaned him against the wall. So far he had only caught fleeting glances of the woman as she undressed him. He was forced to rely on feel and sound to know what she was doing. As his trousers pooled about his ankles the mage felt a cool breeze washing over his prick. After the third time feeling the sensation, he realized it was her breath.
Kal wanted to groan in appreciation as her tongue made lazy circles around the head of his cock. A few seconds later he cursed his inability to look down as her tongue seemed to split in two, each taking a side and tracing its tip around the sensitive base of the head. Unfortunately, he hadn't really been expecting to sleep with the woman that quickly, so he wasn't even remotely hard when her gaze froze his body.
The woman took what she could of his prick into her mouth and began sucking powerfully.
'Oh, no,' he thought.
Pain flared in Kal's groin as snake fangs pierced him just above the base of his cock. His traitorous prick stiffened in her mouth despite the burning of the venom as it took effect. Fighting back the urge to use his compatibility spell to make his dick tiny in retribution, Kal instead went the other direction. Reminding himself that his purpose was to convince the woman to leave the area, he pushed the spell to make him as large as it could without hurting the woman.
His cock expanded a bit more than he expected, earning him a hum of excitement from the woman sucking him. This was probably the largest he had ever been, with the exception of Ikuno, yet she was taking him without any issue. Despite the pain, a part of him really wanted to look down and watch as she began bobbing her head back and forth.
The snake disengaged its fangs as her tongue went to work on the underside of his prick. Her split tongue felt delightful and was completely unlike anything he had previously experienced. Though she wasn't as experienced as Ikuno and didn't have Alina's soft mouth, he found himself quickly climbing towards orgasm from the sheer novelty.
Kal howled inside his mind as she slowly pulled back, teasing the tip of his prick before letting it slip out of her mouth. He had been so close! The mage was honestly surprised he hadn't painted the back of her throat white already.
A new kind of horror ran through his thoughts, what if he couldn't cum? What if his body being frozen meant that he could feel everything she did but couldn't go through the motions of having an orgasm?
His moment of worry was interrupted by the gorgon lifting him into the air and walking over to a bed of the soft subterranean moss commonly found below the surface. With the ease she laid him down, he guessed that she didn't have the insane strength of the golems, but something more akin to one of the larger blacksmiths he had seen in his wanderings about the metal crafting district of Carriston. It still seemed out of place for a woman with what he guessed was a normal, if a little on the tall side, female body.
More of the insufferable bites came as she situated his legs on the bed, getting his naked body positioned to her liking. As she moved up his body he finally got a decent look at the gorgon. The snakes of her hair were the first to come into sight. Many of them weren't active, hanging limply like gigantic, colorful strands of hair. Those that did move about had eyes that glowed faintly in the scant light of the gorgon's cavern.
Instead of a single type of snake, they were all different shapes and colors the vast majority of which he had never seen before. No two looked to be the same. One bright green serpent had small yellow spots spaced out along its side with a wide head and a vicious set of small teeth Kal got to see as it yawned. Another was nearly the same color but had a very thin body and seemed to be doing its best impression of a branch or vine.
Colors of the serpents ranged from a dangerous red to bright blue with black stripes and an orange head and from jet black to the tiny cream-colored garter snake that poked its head out between the larger ones. At least he recognized that one.
She finally came up where he could see her face. Serpentine eyes stared down into his, he mentally reeled back again but nothing happened other than the woman giving him a mirthless smile. Kal wondered if it had something to do with how her eyes had been glowing when his body froze but now seemed normal. Well... normal as a woman with slitted reptilian eyes could be. He was surprised to see normal human teeth when she smiled at him, he had been expecting a set of fangs.
He saw two of the snakes go limp as the eyes of another two began glowing, both of which he knew. The red oak snake and the white-mouthed viper were both inhabitants of the woods around Telsin, though it was exceptionally rare to see one. Master Jurien kept a dried specimen of each along with a variety of other dangerous plants and animals in his shop for teaching purposes. He often hired the town's youth to gather herbs that could be found nearby, the parents appreciated it when their children came back alive.
The serpents stretched out and sunk their fangs into each of his shoulders. Kal noticed that it wasn't like they were striking at prey or defending themselves, extending out and only barely piercing the skin before releasing their venom. The gorgon lifted his arms as the magic from the bites took hold, he was extremely pleased to see his flesh was its normal color and not stone gray as his hands came into view.