In the Wake of the Shattered Promises
Then, without warning, she reached inside.
In the next instant, Jennifer caught sight of something and let out a piercing scream.
Kimberly withdrew her hand slowly, and a striking corn snake with red eyes coiled sinuously around her arm, its body undulating in slow, mesmerizing waves.
The snake sensed Jennifer's presence, hissing menacingly as it flicked its forked tongue in her direction.
She cowered. "W-Why do you keep a snake?"
She had always been domineering and abusive toward Kimberly, bullying those she deemed beneath her. But everyone had their vulnerabilities, and hers happened to be a mortal fear of snakes.