You moaned as you started coming around as you felt it as your body had cooled down, feeling somewhat ashamed to have so foolishly gone through such a blazing heat like it was a simple walk. Nearby on this straw mat you had been sharing was your mother still unconscious but clearly alive based on her chest movements.
“Ssssso you’ve come around my dear” a kind but somewhat hissing-like voice remarked from nearby. Turning in the direction at first you saw the tail of a huge snake, lacking distinctive markers to better clarify the breed but was still maybe 12 feet tall if help upright but party hidden by a counter. But at the counter was this woman looking mostly Chinese-Asian with long and messy raven hair but had yellow snake-like eyes and bar a golden chocker, matching bracelets and ruby necklace was purely naked, was standing their fixing what looked to be cold drinks. “Name’s Sssssrara. A brief recon group I was part of found you and who I Asssssssume is your mother collapsed after clearly mistakenly bypassssssing the equipment checkpoint” the woman then stated as she started moving from behind the counter and towards you…
…only it was then you saw this was no human woman but a female Naga or Nagi as they are often called as the snake-tail was in fact replacing everything from the waist down. “You…your…a Magi” you respond in surprise. “Indeed Ssssso” Srara kindly assured with you now noticing her snake-like tongue as she spoke while she handed you one of the cups “Help you regain your ssssstrength”. “Thanks Ssssssrara” you accepted. “It’s one Ssssss my Dear” Srara corrected “but I apologise for we Nagasssss do exuberate our sssssssss’sssss”.
Just then your mother has come around “Jenna are you alright?” she asked. “Cooled down quite a bit” you answered while drinking some of the cold liquid Srara had given you. “Sssssso you’re not left out” Srara followed as she handed your mum her cup. “Thank- WAAAA” your mother responded upon seeing Srara directly. “Be not afraid, We Naga don’t eat humans. Our diet is a mixture of typical human and snake but leaving out the general cannibalism King Cobras and Bandy-Bandy are known for” Srara assured though noticed that your mother was still shocked “Or isssss it my lacking of non-jewel garmentsssss what unnervessss you?”. “…your nudity” your mother confessed.
Just then this woman wearing the part’s employee uniform with added sunhat and desert cloak entered the building “Ah. About time Abigail” Srara greeted the woman. “You know how close I am to losing my assigned ideal job here Srara?” the woman snapped back. “Are you aware you’d avoid that by focusing more on the crossingsssss between areasssss in tune with the equipment handing and lesssssss on playing tour guidesssss in a guidelesssssss dessssign park you’d not have sssssuch a record” Srara stated. “Whatever. Are you two alright?” Abigail then asked you and your mother. “are thanks to Srara here” your mother assured “And their weren’t really anyone at this building standing right where everything was replaced by sand”.
“And they wonder why I demand some fencing” Abigail muttered while handing a bag containing similar desert gear like she was wearing to the two of you “Guests are meant to go through them not go right into the sands”. “It was my fault. I was so excited to explore and see the snake people- no offence” you insisted while apologising to Srara. “Sssssounds like sssssomeone hasss a deep liking of Ssssnakessss” Srara noted without issue to what you had said. “And that said Abugail. Are you the non-myth head here?” your mother asked. “From that I take it your aware of the experience routes” Abigail responded. “why not sssstep outsssside for a bit them” Srara then suggested.
To yours and your mother’s surprise besides it being cool compared to the vast desert outside the building you had been in was in fact part of a bussing town where the locals were going about. All Nagas and Nagis as it happens coming from various ethical human backgrounds but like Srara had snake-like eyes and besides jewellery, some more and some less, were naked no matter the age and you could clearly see Nagas and Nagis younger then you were. The buildings were mostly stone and had a theme of South Asian Temple design to them and what’s more the town was built around what was maybe a massive oasis and the building you had come out of was actually quite close to the water.
“Miss Warrens. Are you done with this report yet?” this African-skinned woman who besides the hat and cloak has for some reason stripped off most of her clothing called while standing by this wired glass framed box with holes nearby. “As it happens I know what I have to write up” Abigail answered as she headed towards the woman. “What’s going on?” your mother asked as you and she walked up as well. Though once in range you noticed what this glass frame was covering and it was a giant pit containing what looked to be snakes matching the tails of the Nagas, only headless yet alive and moving somehow. “I’d advise stepping back as I only know of Miss Omari here undergoing the experience so far” Abigail instructed as she unlocked the glass casing with a few Nagas getting involved, one lifting the lid open and two then holding the now fully naked Miss Omari by the arms over the now exposed hole…
…only then suddenly one of these wired headless snakes leaped and somehow swallowed everything from below the woman waist. Only then you watched as the divide between skin and scales as did the outline of legs faded, the woman’s breasts went up a cup-size and having closed her eyes as she was lifted up had now opened them to reveal them to have changed to snake-like. “So…that’s how one…becomes a Nagi or Naga?” your mother questioned. “Indeed ssssso. Sssssee thessssse tailssss wait for willing unity either brief like your fellow guest of indefinite like me” Srara assured “Mind itssss not irreverssssible nor byproductable assss in our birthsss are to human child sssstill” then moves in front of the two of you to continue “Sssso… are either of you girlssss interesssssted in firssst hand experience asss our kind?”: