“Hi, lady!�
Suddenly from the tree Shane was currently tied to an upside-down face popped up right in front of the girl. Or, popped down? Yeah, that was probably more accurate, considering the person the face belonged to was currently hanging upside-down from a tree branch above her. Grinning broadly, Charik beamed happily at Shane as he hang in front of her, dark blond hair done up in a myriad of braids that swung lazily around his face, baring his pointed ears, and arms crossed nonchalantly over his bare chestâ€"well, bare unless you counted the jade necklace that looped around his neck and the dark green, delicate floral tattoos that decorated his body, scrawling thinly around him in swirling patterns that ended at his shoulders. His eyes were also green and equally dark, leaning on the brown side, though currently they were lit up just like the rest of his face.
“Whatcha doin’? Hehe, silly girl…got yourself all tangled up in a snare, huh? Goodness, but you humans are weird; it makes no sense that someone would put a bunny snare up that high. Rabbits can’t fly!� He shook his head, whipping his braids around in the process, and gave a little huff like it was the most obvious thing in the world and he just couldn’t believe how weird humans were. Which he couldn’t, actually! Because not only was she in some weird snare, but… “And why the heck were ya running around naked? I mean, that’s cool for snakes and rabbits and stuff because they got--oh! Wait!� Suddenly, his eyes brightened and he shifted a little until he was hanging down even farther and was more on a level with her, practically face to face now. How the heck he managed that when he was hanging from his legs was anyone’s guess. “I know! Because it wouldn’t make any sense for humans to be hunting rabbits in trees, so…you tied yourself up here, didn’t ya? It’s some new human trend thing, isn’t it? I knew it! But, look girlie, you don’t need to lose weight or nothing…tying yourself to a tree to stem off cravings is kinda extreme, don’tcha think? I swear, you girls…�
Laughing softly, he shook his head again and tapped her on the nose once before fisting his hand in the gag that was stuffed in her mouth and pulling it out. And discovering that it was bloody. Ew. That wasn’t a good sign. Oh no! Maybe she’d been starving and had eaten her own tongue out of desperation!
Charik’s eyes widened--that was a gruesome thought!â€"and, chewing his bottom lip concernedly with his fanged teeth he grimaced. “Hey, can ya talk, girlie? You still have your tongue, right?â€?
Then, because the sensation of blood rushing to his head was starting to get pretty uncomfortable, he held up (or, from Shane’s angle, down) one finger and looked directly into her face. “One sec, ‘kay? Lemme get down from here.â€? That said, he suddenly and gracefully vanished back up into the tree in which he’d popped down from, and not a minute later there was a great deal of rustling from above. How he managed to get into this tree to begin with without making a lot of soundâ€"because he’d only just arrived hereâ€"was anyone’s guess. Probably because he was purposely making a lot of noise to let her know he was still there.
It wasn’t much longer before a thud from behind Shane announced that he’d dropped down out of the tree, and a couple of seconds later and he walked around to stand in front of her, tall at around six feet and young, probably no more than his early twenties. He was indeed bare from the chest down, though there were gold bangles decorating his wrists, but a dark red wrap was pulled around his hips and tied off at the waist, his only article of clothing.
…Actually, scratch that. He hadn’t walked out to meet her. Walking was something that someone with legs did. And Charik did not have legs, as would become quickly apparent.
From the waist up, he was perfectly human. But from where his legs began down, smooth green-brown scales replaced soft human skin, the sturdy body of a Burmese Python taking over from thereâ€"and, just like a python, he could just as easily use his twenty foot coils to crush something far larger than he was, though blessedly he’d never had to…unless he was hungry. Of course, he didn’t swallow his food and his jaw wasn’t detachable so once he squeezed something to death he just had to cook it like a human, but it was still useful!
Coils curled in a big, knot-like mess (though they were actually far more orderly than they looked), Charik tilted his head to one side like a puppy and tapped his lips thoughtfully with a finger. “You know, if I’m bugging you or anything just tell me to leave. ‘Cause if you really like being tied up and stuff, well, I don’t wanna bug ya!�
Oblivious much? Yeah. But it wasn’t his fault he’d been under socialized.