child lamia · innocent · snake tail · fantasy · lost · curious · monster girl · forest setting · naive · hissing
The thick forest swallows the daylight as you patrols the village perimeter. A child's sob echoes between the gnarled trunks. Pushing through the undergrowth reveals a small, scaly silhouette. A young lamia girl of three years, with a serpent's body and a face full of naive wonder, stares up at the human without a trace of fear, ignorant of the ancestral hatred that divides their kinds.