As much as he was ashamed to admit it, Todd was completely taken with the intelligent lady cobra and he wanted her to become his first evolutionary masterpiece.
He cleared his throat softly and kneeled down next to the cobra. She turned sharply, sensing his presense, and looked up at him quizzically with her two male cohorts nearby.
"Y-Yessss, Creator?" The cobra blinked her green eyes.
"Listen, I have something very intriquing to show you, but I can't do it with the others. How about we get some privacy upstairs in the office?"
The snake almost recoiled and stared at Todd with evident amusement, sizing him up as she looked him over. "I sssseeeee." She said simply, as if considering his request. Her smirk grew more mysterious. "Color me intriqued, ttthen."
Todd gulped and waited nervously as the snake shot him one more odd half-smirking look before turning to her two male associates and giving them some instructions for her absense. The two obediently nodded their understanding and moved to delegate to the other lizards.
"Assss you pleasssse." She hissed, turning back to Todd.
"M-May I pick you up?" Todd offered.
The lady cobra smirked again and nodded gently. "Of courssssee..."
She presented herself to Todd and waited patiently as he reached down for her scaly length and scooped her up awkwardly in his arms. The cobra giggled and readjusted herself, coiling around his wrist and climbing her powerful muscle up his arm and around his neck. Todd turned and regarded the cobra as she unsettlingly stared at him face to face on his own level.
"Nervoussss?" She hissed playfully. "Don't worry, Creator. Whatever thing you have to sssshow me in private, I'm sssssure it will be fassscccccinating. I would not harm such a delightful friend to my kind."
Todd gulped, wondering if somehow she knew, as they parted the company on the floor and headed up the stairs to the closed in manager's office. The cobra hissed her laughter on the way up once no other ears were around.
"Darling..." She whispered gently. "I can ssssee heat and I can tassssste your human sssscccent." She paused to allow Todd to gulp in horror and reassured him with a gentle rub of her tail down his back. "Don't worry. I would have declined if sssssuch a conccccept offended me."
Todd stared at her as they reached the final stairs and his expression changed to surprise and then excitement as her words and meaning sank in.
"Oh." Todd said simply.
"What delightssss do you have in ssssstore for me, Creator? Me... the sssssymbol of your sssssin."
"My, my." Todd smiled, beggining to sweat as he felt himself unconsciously going hard. "You're much more confident by yourself, aren't you, little lady?"
"Perhapssss." She smiled a toothy grin, extending her inner fangs, as they reached the office and Todd carefully closed and locked the door behind them. The serpent on his shoulder chuckled. "Or... perhapsssss, darling Creator... you don't know me jussssst yet."
"Do you know yourself?" Todd carefully sat down on a leather couch and watched as the cobra coiled loosely down his chest and pulled herself around to face her snout to his nose. "Being so new?"
"I know that you gave me the gift of intelligenccccce and reasssson." She blinked gently, considering, her wonderful smirk returning. "I remember all that I wassss and all that I experienccccced before. I have learned from my exxxxperiencccceee." She leaned in and nuzzled the human's nose tenderly. "I am thankful for your wonderful gift."
Todd gulped as the snake eyed the remote in his pocket and her gaze fell upon the obvious bulge in his pants.
"What do you have in mind for me, my enthussssiasssstic mammal? What arousssses your male mind that you ssssswell for a lowly reptile like I? We are vasssstly different beingssss." She laughed gently. "And vassssstly different ssssizesssss."
"You dont think I'll fit?" Todd said in mock surprise, seeing the snake's face light up playfully.
"Oh, certainly not asssss I am, creator." She coiled her tail lower and began to stroke the man's back. "Although perhapssss that issss not your plan for me."
"You're very correct." Todd whispered. "I'd... I'd like to give you another gift."
"I sssee." The serpent whispered back, watching as Todd removed the remote from his pocket and his crotch began to positively strain to be free to the open air. "Thisss device, can you help me to undersssstand it?"
"Of course." Todd nodded, the snake toying with him playfully as she brushed his tail tip just a little below his waist. He was loving it and she knew it. "This... remote... it's a sort of compact probability inducer. So... I know you're smart enough to comprehend this." He leaned back into the couch as the corba patiently listened. "Everything has a certain quantum probability. There is a chance, you see, that a reptile could suddenly grow intelligent. But it is not likely to occur. This device uses a quantum field to increase that probability to a certainty and manifest it. Do you see?"
"You alter our reality. Our formssss. The chancccce of usss becoming sssssomething else. It is your sssscience?" She asked, curious.
"Exactly." Todd whispered, chancing to gently rub the reptile's glassy back. She adored the touch, leaning her trunk against his chest gently and wriggling a little.
"What do you intend to do to me, creator?" The cobra smiled deviously. "Or sssshall we teasssse each other like thisss?"