Novel & Cerita Serpent Breathing

he asked, worried at how Kiran hurt herself when she loudly slapped her palm on her forehead. "Smoke!" Kiran gasped, remembering something that she read about snakes. "Snakes have elevated sense of smell," she eagerly explained to Noorh. "They are especially sensitive to odors and fumes. Since the winged serpents are like snakes that grew wings, they might also be repelled by extremely strong scents or fumes and smoke!"

Its head raised and ready to attack. Its sharp fangs capturing the light and gaining a more bone-chilling effect. Its dark beady eyes watching the three girls before I, closely. Its long tongue slowly escapes its mouth as it hisses and the girls keep quivering. Too scared to make a sound. This huge serpent slowly curls itself around these girls and the girls remain frozen in fear. They snap back to reality when their bones begin to snap and crackle. Their screams and struggles make the snake squeeze harder and the other girls including Gabby begin to cry more furiously as they battle the little snakes still trying to make way to them.

"I've been looking for you for twenty-seven years." I found out later that serpents have an instinct to mark their destined mates. After coming of age, they're driven to seek out a specific scent that belongs to them alone. No one expected that Victor would feel nothing for any female shifter, and that he'd find what he was looking for in a dirty corner of a human city. He told me that in that moment, twenty-seven years of restless, churning blood went still. "Marry me, Cassandra. I'll give you everything."

The doors closed behind us with a low, final sound, and my chest tightened. Everywhere I looked, I felt eyes on me. My skin prickled, dread crawling up my spine, my pulse hammering in my ears. I swallowed hard. Then I realized it wasn't eyes. Statues lined the walls on both sides of the corridor, carved wolves frozen mid-snarl and mid-howl, their stone gazes sharp and merciless. They were massive, ancient, each one different, as if they had once been alive and captured in the moment of their rage. My breath left me in a rush.

Its forked tongue flicked out, tasting the air between them. "A gift," Lucien whispered. He stepped toward her, the snake’s head swaying inches from Evelyn’s throat. "A kitten is for children who crave comfort. But a serpent... a serpent knows the art of the wait. It doesn't bark. It doesn't beg. It simply watches, and when the moment is right, it delivers a strike that ends the game forever." Evelyn stared at the creature. It was beautiful and lethal—a mirror of the man standing before her.

He hit a couple of buttons with a flourish. "The Rod of Asclepius is a staff with a serpent crawling up its length." A beep signaled Xander had sent us something. I hit the button. A stylized picture of a serpent climbing a staff appeared on the screen. "That's it. That's the picture I saw in my father's office," Kiema said.

The Ivy Electro Serpent looked at Adrian, feeling a chill run through its body. Adrian was like a monster, and the serpent realized that overpowering him was impossible. The serpent’s massive form trembled violently. “Scoundrel! Damn you!” it roared, shaking as it launched a furious attack, aiming to crush Adrian into pieces. Adrian bellowed back, “How dare you try to suppress me with your mere flesh?!” His voice echoed through the air, radiating a green divine light as immense power erupted from him.

, I whispered before I jumped out of my cover, making sure to let out a loud bang as I jumped out a few feet away from the serpent. The serpent awoke with a jolt, noticing my presence, its head rose slowly, its yellow obsidian-shaped eyes stared right through me, striking me with fear, its tongue flicking out. I stood there helplessly as my body froze the moment the serpent moved – tensed. It seemed like it had already wrapped me in its body. I could feel the air in my body leave as I stared right into its eyes. Had I not noticed there was something in it, my fear would’ve taken over my emotions. Suddenly, when I realized the serpent was telling me something with its eyes, calmnes came flowi

Eston yelled as he had finished his enchantment. From the serpent’s view, the surrounding around it was colored in the monotone black and gray hues. It couldn’t see much except the figure and shape of the humans, allowing him to detect them more with their scents rather than their appearance. But all of a sudden, the serpent could only see one whole figure of a human that was hugging a round object. The serpent glared at the human, wondering why it was feeling such a sense of terror only to shriek when it notice what Mona was hiding was a serpent’s egg!

He was a snake, through and through. Avi and I continued to discuss matters until nearly an hour passed. I walked him out, the cool night breeze ruffling his hair. As soon as he reached his car, he turned and leaned in closer to me, his breath reeked of alcohol, yet his gaze held something deep and provocative. “We can still end things on a better note, Nero. I'm in need of a good…” he traced a finger down my chest. “Workout.” I grabbed his wrist and pulled his hand away from my chest, raising it to my lips to kiss. His cheeks flushed instantly.