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Submitted to Contest #309
The smell of the meat crisping over the small fire is overwhelming, teardrops of golden fat dripping on the flames is all I must appear to hear. I will make no sudden movements nor let my breath quicken lest the beast towering behind me feels my fear and senses my sleeping children. I see her cursed body shaped against the wall, shaped by the bright night outside, its blessed light stronger than the fire I’ve lit to musk their nocturnal sounds and scent. A serpent tail is sweeping the air behind her, making a swooshing, whip-like sound that ...
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