Chapter 34: Parseltounge
This certainly wasn't a place for humans, but I felt oddly at ease out here as the corn snake slithered over to me. I picked it up. I usually didn't like snakes but I seemed drawn to this one. I laughed when it curled around my arm and slithered up to my shoulder. I shrieked when its forked tongue darted inside my ear, but I quickly silenced when I heard a voice.
"You are dessstined for great thingssss," it hissed making me freeze up, all my muscles tensing.
"Free him and come fulfill your dessstiny," the snake whispered in a raspy voice, drawing outs the "S"s out with a hiss, its tongue licking my ear each time it did.
"Wh-what are you?" I stuttered.
"Come, come to your home in Egypt and find out," it encouraged, Alyx looking out the window at me.
"Yami it's late you should come in," he called out, looking at the snake concerned. I didn't respond, but stared at the snake as it slithered down me and towards the river of fire. It stopped and picked up its head, looking back at me and seeming to smile before slithering into the fire.
I felt a shiver run down my spine, a possum running up my back I believe my dad use to call it, but certainly that snake didn't really talk, parseltongue was just a fairytale thing of books. I got up and went upstairs. Alyx not offering any tea for once and I laid down still wondering about the parseltongue concept. I couldn't help but wonder have I ever gotten close enough to a snake before to see if I could understand them?