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title: Skin Contact
by: The Rose in Death's Garden
written for: The HPFC 335 Pairing Bonanza Challenge
pairing: Basilisk/itself
The Basilisk had been alone for a very long time with no one to visit it, or pet it, or make long speeches it didn't entirely understand even though they spoke in the snake language, or let it out of the chamber once in a while so it could petrify people.
In this state of extended solitude, the Basilisk became increasingly lonely. Eventually it became so desperate for some semblance of companionship that it gathered up its own shed skins from off the floor up into its coils and it snuggled with them, pretending to itself that they were another snake.
"You're so thin, other Basilisk," it hissed to its new friend. "There isn't much to eat down here. Human peoples don't come here anymore." It gave a hissy sigh. "Oh, other Basilisk, I love you so much," the Basilisk told its own shed skins, nuzzling them lovingly.
