While I drove back home, I thought about everything the old, Chinese man
had told me. Well, of course the whole story was quite fantastic and unlikely.
But if he was right about everything, it was kind of strange, that he said,
I could become one of the strongest of... Well, how should I call "those"?
I mean, he said, that I was neither unvulnerable nor immortal...
So how could I be powerful then?
Well, surely, my snake abilities had been impressive!
My body doubtlessly was very strong, big and... alluringly attractive.
I could petrify my boyfriend with the mere gaze of my piercing eyes.
And my venom could stop his nervous system and kill him in seconds.
But anyway:
Couldn't some kind of superman just kill me with his super-strength?
I had to think about the words of the old Chinese man again.
"Try not to attract attention." He had said to me. "Try to stay inconspicuous.
Try to be invisible... like snakes do."
I realized, that I had missed one power... Well, in case that the whole thing
wasn't a weird fairy tale at all: I had missed the fact, that I had transformed
myself back to my human form. If this was a permanent ability, I really had
a chance to hide my powers as long as my human self wasn't connected
with the snake queen Vipriss... So, I couldn't just slither through the world
and devour everybody, but I had to cautiously continue my human life
as well... and cover all traces of my serpentine life.
Well, but first of all, I had to find out how I could switch between my forms.
I pulled into the driveway of my house and quickly rushed inside.
Firstly I cleaned the remains of my boyfriend from the kittchen floor,
then I took the large mirror from my room and brought it to the cellar.
Well, there I surely would be unseen. With mixed feelings I undressed
to my underwear and I sat onto the cold ground in front of the mirror.
And then I concentrated.