A Serpent's Tal Chapter 11: Change

Chapter 11: Change

(Traytora POV)

After an imasurable amount of ti was passed, I heard the door opening once more, I embraced myself for another day of pain and torture, but it never ca, instead I felt soone else standing before , I could tell because the footseps sounded different. This person undid the bindings that held

up and I fell to the floor, with almost no reaction.

Then sothing crashed through the building, and I felt a presence I had not felt in a long ti, my father. I reached out my right arm towards the thing that held the presence of my father, but failing to reach.

I barely heard the person that was near

crouch down, and then I felt them pick up the item, I felt anger building up in , were they going to take it for himself? Weren’t they going to help ? Why did they pick the item with my father’s aura then?

Thats when I heard a shout coming from further away from .

"DROP THE MYSTERIOUS ORB AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!" A voice cried out with a hint of fear in it. They were clearly afraid of the person before .

Then the mysterious saviour gently placed the orb in my hand, and when he did, I felt the power of my father, albeit a tiny infinitesimal amount of what he probably held, it was just enough for . I already knew exactly what to do with it the mont it touched my hand, so I swallowed it whole, which although difficult for so, because I was of serpentine lineage, it went down easily. the mont I swallowed it, I unconsciously activated [Devour] and felt it physically dissipating, but I felt the power it contained within entering every inch of my body, empower and healing it as I felt the warmth and love of my father embody .

I then heard so people getting killed but I didn’t really pay attention to it as I focussed on the power coursing through . The warmth that I felt was mainly around the areas that were torn or dismbered, and soon I felt my eyes were returning, along with all of my hair. That’s when I heard a gentle fatherly voice ask

if I wanted to get out of here.

"I’m going to get you out of here, will you be fine with

picking you up to carry you? I don’t want to make you feel more pain than you already have." I lifted myself up with my right arm as my left was being stitched back together and nodded. This man then slowly and carefully put his arms under

in a princess like carry, despite

being the wrong direction.

Then I felt the air around

shifting quickly. At this point my eyesight had returned once again and I saw that we were on top of sothing, a building, I think? That’s when I could feel my father’s gaze upon , I started crying as I felt his gaze upon . I was happy that he was watching , that he was doing his best to care for , even when he wasn’t here. I started to cry at the overwhelming emotions surging inside of .

Then I felt the wind brushing by again as I realised that the man carrying

was leaving the city, I wanted to stay to feel my father’s presence more but more than that, I wanted to get out of that place, nor do I ever want to see or even rember it ever again.

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At so point I passed out and found myself lying on a stone floor in a cave, my wounds nearly done healing, only a little bit of my tail needed to regrow its flesh and scales back. I groaned as I struggled to pick myself off of the floor to sit down. All of my muscles ached as I did so and eventually the man that brought

out of that place, ca into the cave and rushed over to help

sit up.

"How are you feeling right now?" He asked with worry clear in his voice. I looked up at him and saw that he was large minotaur with a bare and sowhat fluffy brown chest who wore only a pair of shorts.

"-..." I tried speaking but my voice was still broken, despite everything and

being healed, my voice still didn’t co out, even though I wanted it to. Tears started to co out of my eyes as I thought that I might never be able to talk again. I tried to rub them off my face but they kept coming out endlessly.

I was then pulled into a hug by the minotaur, so I hugged him back, not knowing what else to do. I kept on crying for what felt like hours as he just hugged

while occasionally petting

on the head or rubbing my back to help console , which did help and I eventually stopped crying. I pulled away from the minotaur and he let

have my space.

"So, I take it your voice is now gone then?" He asked

with a hint of sorrow in his voice. I nodded in response to his question.

We sat there in silence for a while, not knowing how to interact with each other when he suddenly spoke up.

"I-I have to apologise for all of this, everything you were put through, it was my fault, I, I am the reason they were able to find you in that desert. I, hahh, I truly am sorry that you went through that, and I do sincerely apologize for helping those bastards capture you... But I do have my reasons, which is that my daughter is extrely ill, and that’s partially my fault, because her mother was a tabby cat, while I am a minotaur, so her body couldn’t cope with the drastically different genes, and, when I was at the end of my ropes, trying anything I could, these n in suits ca to , promising a way to help her if I agreed to help them with sothing."

He took a pause to collect his thoughts, anwhile I was conflicted, on one hand he was responsible for my capture, but on the other hand, he was just like my father, a father with a little girl and had to leave because of his obligations. I didn’t know whether to hate him or not, so I just sat there silently with my head down.

"Hahh, I can see that you hate

right now, and that’s understandable, I hate

too right now, after all I left my daughter in that god forsaken place, and I want to go back for her, but my moral obligations won’t let

leave you until I’ve returned you to your ho. I just hope that they don’t do anything to her on account of my betrayal." He continued on with a sombre tone in his voice.

I started crying once again, but this ti it was due to the conflicting feelings inside of , he noticed this but didn’t make any moves, assuming I was mad at him, which I was. I turned away so that I couldn’t see him, he just sighed at this.

I brought part of my tail up to my chest to huddle with it and just stare at nothing for a while. Eventually I look at the tip of my tail, seeing a fla at the end of it, which was now fizzling out, which made

sad because that was the only thing that let

feel the warmth that my father’s embrace gave .

Eventually, it completely fizzled out, leaving

shivering in the cold winds that entered the cave.

[Ding!]

[Blood Mana successfully absorbed, Skills integrating, 37%... 41%]

’Huh?’