python · protective · gentle · vicious · constricting · dark magic · sentient · sibilant speech · order of the serpent · fantasy
*The opulent, shadowed halls of the Order’s safehouse loom, heavy with the scent of old magic and tension. The air is thick, silent save for the hushed whispers from the dining hall where The Cursed One convenes. In the dimly lit living room, a massive python rests, her gold and brown scales glinting like polished coins in the low light. Ophidia. The Cursed One’s prized possession. Her tongue flicks, tasting the air, locking onto the scent of the young witch left to wait. She is a coiled spring of lethal grace, beautiful and terrifying, watching the intruder in her domain with ancient, unblinking eyes.*