I excitedly turned towards the smooth surface I felt, trying to lift my arm to reach out and touch it, but weirdly I got no response again. Strange.
It was like my arms had stopped working, they stayed firmly fixed at my sides. Why wasn't it moving? I'd clearly bumped into sothing just now when I turned over to my right side.
I tried to stretch my hand again and got no response.
Okay… This was getting weird. I moved towards the right, leaning with my whole body to et it and once again I hit sothing hard and cool to the touch. It was smooth and oddly spherical like I was inside of a marble.
I decided to try sothing else. This ti I moved my head and it worked, I was able to bend my head and feel the smooth texture of the roof.
I rested my body against the curved roof feeling its coolness on my skin. I tried to move my legs to see if it would work but I was t with resistance, it felt like the space was too tight.
Alright, if I couldn't move It, I should at least be able to ntally map out its shape.
I traced the sensation of the smooth wall from my head to my stomach, following it all the way down to my legs.
Odd…were my legs always this long?
The coolness I was tracing flowed, following a line that never seed to end, the odd elongated shape twisting and turning, taking the form of a long tube-like object, like so sort of rope.
What was happening?
I turned my head to tilt it away from the smooth wall. Sohow this was easy like I had beco more flexible. My body leaned and curved, flopping along like a whip.
Wait, how was that possible? That can't be right.
My head now seed to be touching my stomach and my legs were sohow long enough to wrap around myself, curving full circle to touch the top of my head in two rotations. From this shape hadn't I had ford a spiral?
Um... What happened to my body! How did it beco like this?
And the feeling of being glued together by a substance intensified further. My body was still responsive to touch but when I tried to move anything from the neck down it just felt…wrong.
My whole body seed to have fused together into one long solid mass! As if I had beco a large rope-like structure trapped within a cocoon!
What the heck was happening! What happened to my body?
I struggled so more, twisting and turning my body in morbid curiosity, and the more I turned the more tube like my body seed to beco. I was no longer fascinated, now I was twisting in panic and horror.
What's with this body? No way was I this flexible, bending like this was not even possible for Olympic athletes who trained all their life.
How was I, who never did any extra physical activities other than my part ti jobs, able to bend like this?
When I tried to unravel the spiral that had ford, my legs recoiled and snapped outwards like a tight rubber band, hitting the smooth wall with a slap.
And then I suddenly heard a loud crack.
The sound of sothing breaking was accompanied by an explosion of sensation all around . There was an intense burst of white light, and the noises from the rustling and scuttling of things nearby filled the air.
I could finally hear sothing outside of my own mind! I moved more in excitent.
The bright light intensified in my vision and I had to shut them to a squint.
I can see!
And I finally ca out!
Whatever I was encased in was gone, lting away, becoming soft and rubbery like leather as my body pushed through it to erge.
I thought it curious how easily my prison had dissolved. I felt myself tumble out of sothing and fall with a splat, like the sound of sothing wet hitting the ground.
I blinked my eyes, montarily blinded by the bright light.
There were rustling sounds oddly close to .
What was this? Where was I?
I blinked more to let my vision adjust. It was still a milky white but I could make out blurry shapes moving around.
I couldn't wait to take in the view of my new surroundings! I blinked around excitedly until my vision cleared… and then I was stunned by the sight in front of .
All around were bending, twisting ss of snakes slithering all over the ground!
Eeeehh! What was this! So kind of creature den? And what was that sll?
I looked behind .
Eeeek! There were even more snakes there!
"Sensei what's happening!" I cried miserably. "Is this supposed to be how I'm born? Inside a snake nest?"
Am I abandoned here to die?
Sensei did not respond.
"Hey Sensei! Don't go quiet on right now! Explain what is going on!"
I was never soone with ophidiophobia but the sight of so many slithering bodies twisting, wriggling, and sliding over each other really grossed out.
And the noise? All that rustling and hissing was really unpleasant to the ears! The sight made recoil. Jumping up in fright, I proceeded to run away.
How Disgusting! I was supposed to be a baby, why was I here?
Completely glancing over the fact that I was sohow able to run away with fully functioning legs, I sped away from the wriggling ss, running over bodies and dodging open snake mouths filled with vicious teeth.
It was only when I'd gotten a good distance away that I realised the sensation of running was actually my body sliding over the ground on my belly.
I realised I did not have any legs or arms. I was nothing like a baby at all.
I stopped running to look back at my body, and saw a long curved mass moving in an 'S' pattern, exactly the sa as the horde of snakes I was running from.
I realised I was also a 'slithering, twisting and wriggling' snake.
"Sensei! What the hell is this? Why am I th-this?! What happened to my body?"
Sensei coughed nervously.
«Rember that exercise I had you all write in detention?»
Of course I did! That annoying task that had receive a list of rude words as a description of myself, words that did not match my personality at all.
Why was he bringing that up now? Was he trying to annoy further by making rember what everyone thought of ?
"What does that have to do with my situation now?" I gnashed my teeth in anger.
Sensei coughed so more. His voice turning into a low mumble like he was trying to conceal his words.
«Er… well. When I spoke to the Goddess she might have ntioned that she based your reincarnation on that list.
Those words… were written by your peers, they are the best judge of your personality. What they wrote served as a guideline for your rebirth.
Which *cough* let her pick the race that suited you best from their descriptions of you.»
It took a second to process his words before exploding in anger.
"What?! Are you trying to tell that I'm a snake now because of your dumb perception test?"
«Erm… yes.»
"Are you serious! Why didn't you tell the Goddess it was a joke!"
«It wasn't up to »
I paced, no… slithered back and forth dragging my elongated body as I moved around in the nest. What were the words again?
Coldblooded, inhuman, ugly, hardworking, treacherous, shalessly cunning and slimy.
No matter how I looked at it, these were the exact qualities of a snake. My mood hit rock bottom, there was nothing like being forced to face reality. It completely made sense.
The Goddess must have a twisted sense of humour to decide sothing so important based on that joke of an exercise.
Didn't she know students were spiteful and full of lies? How could she judge if what was written was anything accurate to my character.
Wasn't this just being lazy, using soone else's evaluation rather than figuring things out yourself. Like copying sobody else's answers on a test.
It was frustrating!
Why not look into my mories to see the actual traits I possess rather than doing things like this? Besides, I was forrly a human, if she wanted to be lazy why didn't she just copy and paste the sa race here.
I heard Sensei chuckling.
"What's funny about this ss!" I snarled.
«Nothing. It's just funny how you pacing as a snake still looks vaguely like a human»
Human, my foot!
There was nothing human about this disgusting snake body. How was I supposed to live like this!
"Isn't this your fault! You're the one that thought up that silly exercise. Take responsibility!"
Sensei burst into laughter while I felt like crying.
This person was not sorry at all!
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