How to Keep a Secret

Sohlushil was played by me. Nessaya was played by https://rp.aryion.com/profile/Nessaya.

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Nessaya.

It was a cool afternoon. The sun was standing high in the sky, but her rays barely reached down as much more than a pleasant white hue through the dense crowns of tall, vine-hung trees. There was no sound here at all, the cracked stone walls of overgrown buildings from an age long passed quietly staring into the forest, a voiceless wind quickly sneaking across the grassy path with old remains of cobblestone still visible beneath. And then, there was the clear emerald river, gently flowing alongside the empty path, branching off into a cool basin.

The perfect place for resting! But not just for humans, no, also for creatures of the deep. A menacing name applied to a much less menacing little being that idly lay on the bottom of the basin, her upper body that of a human woman, her lower that of an orange-scaled fish. Nessaya was her name, and this was one of her favorite places around the area. It was always so peaceful, and nobody ever disturbed this place. It was so serenely quiet that she could feel a sudden change in the water, like raindrops on the surface falling in a near perfect rhythm.

They grew a little louder, and the mermaid soon recognized the mini-impulses as distant footsteps. She looked out of the water, seeing the shade of a human in the distance. Quickly, she dove underwater again and hid herself in a dark nook in the corner of the basin, her curiosity hindering her from simply fleeing.


Sohlushil.

The ruins were quite common in that area, their gray and cracked cobblestones bespeckled with the green of the small vines and other forms of vegetation that had taken to grow in there, after their previous inhabitants had long since vanished - having either left for other places where they could pretend to be superior for a bit longer, or simply died in their ignorance.

To the mind of the one slender figure weaving her way across the trees and through the ruins of what used to be an ancient fort, it spoke quite the message. It mattered not what the humans who lived here had claimed, what they had achieved or what they had done. In the end, all that was left of them were these ruins - she thought, laying her soft hands atop the cold stone - and, soon, not even that, as nature would indeed consume and involve them as it reclaimed what once belonged to itself.

But this particular stretch of the emerald river was not Sohlushil's favorite place due to the messages she heard whispered by the wind, as it passed through the gaps in the stones at just the right way, the right angle. This was her favorite place because it was distant, recluse. In here, the act of her disrobing was not something that would bring problems to her.

She didn't need to worry about prying eyes, scheming tongues or keen ears. She could just relax, and take a minute for herself. In here, the few crimson, snake-like scales trailing around Sohlushil's waist and down to her center were not a problem. Or so she thought as she took off her corset and other clothes and slipped eagerly into the cold, lazily flowing water.


Nessaya.

The soft earth seamlessly turned to dark sand as it reached into the silver-green mirror of the emerald river. Yet the slight shifts in weight still send minuscule tremors through earth and water, close enough to be perceived by those with sharp enough senses. A pair of gems sparkled through the hidden corner of the basin, Nessaya's sharp eyes, able to see through the darkness of the waves and spot that the creature approaching her favorite relaxation spot was human. Well, mostly human.

The most interesting part about her were those night ruby scales that needed a second, careful look not to be mistaken for dark blood. The spark of curiosity lighted up the mermaid's heart. A fellow half-human, it seemed. She knew humans, she knew mermaids and all kinds of other sea-creatures, but landwalking humans with scales were news to the fire red-haired ocean dweller. For a little while, she watched as Sohlushil created waves and ripples on the surface, before taking the courage to swim up.

Yep, those definitely were legs, and yes, those were scales around her body. From the safe distance of a few feet, she slowly let the top half of her head float out of the water to see this curious creature more clearly. She blew a few bubbles, the remains of short lived attempts of convincing herself to say hello, but not quite courageous enough, the redhead mermaid just floated there awkwardly like a buoy with a pair of green googly eyes.


Sohlushil.

Standing against the flow of the river were several stones - some natural, some remnants of a bridge that laid nearby, its structure reaching into the nothingness as several of its building blocks had fell due to disrepair - their presence disturbing the water, but forming a perfect relaxing spot due to the way the currents flowed against it in their unstoppable quest to move. Sohlushil felt a pleasant shiver going up her spine and across her bones, her arms and shoulders twitching in an automatic response to the shock of temperature - despite the fact that her ancestors had melded their flesh with that of snakes several millennia ago, their blood still ran hot, like that of mammalians.

It was a most relaxing experience, to allow herself to cool off her body temperature by the ever-flowing water as she laid her body back against one of such boulders. She could breathe down a deep breath - actually breathe - and feel the pressure of the several masks she had to wear escaping her just as her high temperature did. Due to the sounds the water produced as it clashed against the boulders in its millenia-long struggle, Sohlushil came very close to not hearing the bubbles produced by Nessaya.

It was by a small margin and, even in such a state of relaxation, her body was quick to raise the alarm. Her heart jumped in her chest, nearly causing her pain as it exploded adrenalin through her veins, and she looked towards the font of the noise. Caught in the act, as someone could put it, Sohlushil's first reaction was to try and cover that which she wanted to hide the most. No, it wasn't her full breasts, neither her sex, but the scales. For nearly a full second, she tried to hide the scales going up and around her waist, until she realized how futile the effort was. Cool, unbothered Yuan-Ti pragmatism clashed with her human-like feelings inside her head as she went, "How long have you been watching me?" in the coldest, all-business tone she could muster, even if her body language exposed her for being all but calm.

Eventually, her Yuan-Ti side won, and the vortex created by her human emotions calmed down enough within Sohlushil for her to think clearly. Despite the shameful fear, the rolling anxiety and the bubbling anger within, she clung to that nugget of rationality and calm that was presented to her, one of her hands reaching silently for the pendant across her neck - that of a snake with wings across a staff that represented her deity and Patron, Sseth - in order to fully compose herself. Oh, the cool, ever-flowing water also did help her settle down once more. She had to do what she was about to do with surgical precision, after all, or months of preparation and trickery would go to waste.

That, right in front of her, was a mermaid - and if she were to consider her showing off her fins, Sohlushil had no reason to believe that her intentions for being there were malicious. Still, that mattered little - it just meant she could deal with Nessaya with some semblance of calm, rather than to try and kill her straight away. Sohlushil's lips moved quickly then, as did her hands, arcane words tumbling out of the former as the latter drew several somatic theorems in the air. The first thing she'd have to worry about - she realized as she looked upon the nearby waters - was to keep the mermaid out of them. If she were to escape, the damage would be done.

Nearly a second had passed since the mermaid asked if Sohlushil was human by the time she finished casting and raised one of her hands. If everything went according to the plan - and the mermaid failed to resist - Nessaya would rise above the water as well, floating above, unable to move as an arcane force held her in place.


Nessaya.

A shiver ran up Nessaya's back all the way up to her neck as Sohlushil's voice echoed like cold blue flame across the slightly tumulted water's surface. The mermaid and the not-quite-human both looked at one another in surprise, and while Sohlushil tried to hide her scales, Nessaya felt the urge to hide her entire self for a moment, and indeed, did consider just diving below and being gone a few moments later. But she did not. Too strong was the pull of her curiosity and too great the interest in speaking with a being that by appearance resembled herself more than your average run off the mill, milky-skinned human.

After her heart skipped a beat or two, the mermaid responded in a voice still shaken with the surprise of being caught. "U-uh, me? Not lo... Not long, why?" her voice was sweet and light, yet the strange mix of excitement and fear rang with each word of hers. Slowly, she glided towards one of the white rocks that cut through the slow, gentle current. "Are you a... a human? Or-or... or are you something else?" the mermaid asked curiously, grabbing a hold of the stone and raising her tailfin and the tip of her scaly tail out of the water in an attempt to connect to another creature of apparent reptilian descent.

The gills on her neck were tough to spot, but this display of what she was usually made things rather clear. Her orange scales shone like the facets of a well-cut diamond for a second, before she let her fin glide back into the refreshing cool stream. She tried to force a smile upon her lips, but the tension in her face was still visible. The perfect silence that lay about this place suddenly grew cold and lifeless, as if every root, every tree, every stone and every voiceless creature seemed to watch in anticipation of what was to come, what otherworldly happenings were to unfold on this - up until that point - perfectly normal day.

Nessaya expected an answer, and strictly speaking, she did get one, but she did think more of words she could understand instead of the arcane phonology of magic unknowable by her kind. The mermaid felt a weird touch on her skin and scales, like thousands of dull glass shards forming a layer around her to be sealed inside. "Hey! What's happening?!" she thought aloud, before quickly realizing that she was being bewitched. The redhead's fight or flight instincts kicked in, and it wasn't too touch to guess which side won: quickly, she tried to vanish beneath the river's surface, but found a force like backwards gravity hinder her disappearing act quite significantly, pulling stronger the deeper she tried to push herself into the water with the help of the white obelisk she held on to.

"Eeep!" she cried out, before looking back at who turned out to be a magician of sorts. "Stop, let me go, please!" she tried to argue, before the strange, cold, crystal touch around her skin and scales started to become sensibly stronger. She's heard of magicks and dark mojo before, and by what she heard, the trick was to collect your mind and conjure up a strong image of yourself, that way you fight the spell's control over you. She never really got the idea, but if there ever was a time to just trust and try, it was now. She squinted her eyes and collected her focus to think of a free, non-bewitched mermaid that broke whatever spell she was just experiencing.



Sohlushil.

Sohlushil's lips still didn't move to produce an answer to the mermaid's plea. Even though she had set the snare and prepared it correctly, the mermaid's body was simply too... Slippery. She couldn't tell if it was the water, her wet scales or something else, but it didn't really matter in the end, for the spell had failed. The strength Nessaya felt around herself, keeping her from bolting, would quickly fade - almost as if the constraints she had felt forming were made of glass, and had just shattered. Sohlushil couldn't really allow this witness to flee, however, her motivations becoming even more fierce within her.

The calm that had taken over her just moments before was now frayed, and she could feel the questions from her human side coming back up to the surface. She flipped through the several sorceries and rituals she knew, but couldn't really find something that she could cast on the short interval of time she had. Sohlushil imagined having to move away, change identities again, to explain this situation to that Abomination, and her heart sunk deep within her chest. So, she reached deeper, and tried something that came way more naturally.

"Wait!" She screamed as she reached a hand towards the mermaid, her voice imbued with preternatural influence and power. "Don't go away, please." She felt the arcane energy of her forebears flowing through her blood, coating her skin, pulling her hair upwards as it flowed out of her lips by her tongue. Sohlushil could only hope that it worked.


Nessaya.

Nessaya had done such a good job with the image in her head that she could hardly differentiate if it had truly worked, or if she was just still imagining it having worked. It took her half a second to realize that indeed, the glassy grasp on her body was gone. With hidden heat of triumph, she shook her tailfin, suddenly having lost interest in continued interaction with this obviously magically gifted creature that seemed to have found sudden desire to go for a fishing trip. At least without four times safety distance.

She turned around, quick like the wind and with the clear veil of droplets flying through the air from her splashing underwater she darted away and was about to vanish underwater when - BONK. "Oweee!" the mermaid whined, as she successfully tested the immediate vicinity for hidden and very hard rocks, finding one just below her. With her forehead. Which was now read, and hurt quite a bit. With her flight plans quickly undone, she turned around to see the pretty, but also pretty dangerous demi-human reaching for her.

Stunned by the hit to her head, Nessaya was rather slow to react and try to get away.


Sohlushil.

Time seemed to slow down to a crawl as Sohlushil reached towards the mermaid - not physically, per se, but with her magic - she could see her energy reaching out from her and making its way to the mermaid, slowly, so excruciatingly slowly, slithering across her body as it set a route towards her ears. If it managed to reach, it should - it hopefully would - make her stop. Make her listen, and make her heed to Sohlushil's command.

It wasn't directly harmful, what she said, so Nessaya should have no problem in following the directive she was given. If Sohlushil's magic managed to reach her in time, that is. And for a moment as the seconds ticked by in that slow fashion, as the mermaid turned around and started to swim away, Sohlushil thought she'd fail. She thought all her worst fears would come to fruition, and she nearly started to acclimatize herself to the idea of being tortured for said failure.

That was until the mermaid bumped her forehead against the stone, and Sohlushil watched as her words crept across her neck and jumped straight into her ears. Before Nessaya could react, the idea of leaving wasn't as urgent anymore. In fact, Sohlushil had said that she should stay, hadn't she? Why would she want to leave?


Nessaya.

Nessaya felt herself grabbed by an invisible hand, or, rather, a claw. it felt so real and material that she had to look around her body twice to see that there was nothing keeping her from leaving. At least nothing physical. She breathed a stressed sigh, and whilst she did, wondered where it came from. Little did she know her mind and body had become separated for a moment, long enough for her to lose control and for foreign thoughts to be inserted into her head.

Still, her world was not so stable, turning from the impact of her not so successful attempt of escape. She started wondering about her reasoning. She had no reason to assume this person to be bereft of logic and clear thought. Why not just talk it out instead of running away? The mermaid had had the chance to flee before, but didn't. She must have had a reason for it, she thought, and indeed remembered the scales she was so curious about.

Her stance had grown quite relaxed, leaning against the mossy stone, her tailfin only swinging to counteract the slight current of the river's flow. Nessaya opened her mouth, and to her surprise, found it hard to speak. "Wh-", she stopped for a bit, evading to ask her initial question again, and instead, slowly, forming: "Who are you?"


Sohlushil.

Sohlushil, seeing the results of her innate spellcasting had worked out as intended, allowed herself a moment to catch her breath. Her heart still pummeled against her ribs, and her blood still ran hot in her veins, but at least she had managed to do something - other than allow Nessaya to flee with her secret, that was. She looked over the mermaid, taking in her question. Despite the fact that Nessaya was kept there by her spell, there was really no point in antagonizing the mermaid further.

"I am..." She started, though she had to stop to breathe properly. Sohlushil hadn't noticed how breathless she had become due to her quick use of magecraft. "My name's Sohlushil." The Yuan-Ti pureblood answered, going back to her scheming once more. She couldn't just let the mermaid go, not with what she had seen. She also couldn't attack her, not without the knowledge that doing so would kill or incapacitate the target instantly, or her Suggestion would be broken, and the mermaid would be free to go.

As Sohlushil pondered her seemingly hopeless situation, however, she felt the smallest of vibrations coming from within her. As she laid a hand atop her midriff, an idea started to shape itself in her mind. So, she raised her chin in the air and closed her eyes, silently muttering a prayer to Sseth. Mayhaps he could help her with what she intended to do next. "And I... I want you to feed yourself to me."


Nessaya.

Nessaya kept on floating atop the cool stream that seemed to lack not a single degree of coldness compared to the wet, mossy stone she was leaning against way more than she actually realized. An exotic, light, sweet aroma, somewhat comparable to a thin, delicate and probably rather expensive lemon candy perfume started to settle around her, the natural scent she carried, which unfolded once she was exposed to air.

The fight for control of her mind had moved to the level of unconsciousness, taking quite some of her brain's resources. She looked cute in a funny way with this baffled expression on her face, which only turned even more surprised with wide open eyes and mouth, which was quickly covered by her slender hand, as she heard Sohlushil's offer, or rather, request. The words rang inside her skull, reflecting a thousandfold from its walls, creating an endless choir of echoes that blocked every attempt of an independent thought.

Slowly, the mermaid shifted forwards, keeping close to the white rock that blocked off her quick escape path. Suddenly, she stopped. "You... You want..." she mumbled. "No, I want to... feed..." Something in her head seemed to be happening, some sort of struggle that almost caused her to turn red and start sweating, so intense did she fight for control over her own body which was now only one bridge-rock away from the hungry sorceress. Her body started to lose tension as the fight in her head came to a climax.

Sohlushil.

Sohlushil's lips could be seen curling slightly in a wicked smile as she watched that mental battle occurring in front of her. She had seen it a thousand fold, this spell being one of her favorites, and could nearly see the metaphorical gears shifting within her newfound prey's head. Slowly, but surely, Sohlushil's original proposition would be shifted around the mermaid's mind, reflected and echoed so many times that her poor victim would start to think that the idea was hers to begin with.

"Yes, you want to," said Sohlushil, knowing full well how far a little nudging could get Nessaya. "You want to feed me. And it's quite easy, too. You just have to reach into my mouth, and let me do the rest." She said, ever-so-slowly, her voice turning into the tone she used to beguile young nobles and other cortiers - calm, and sultry and inviting.

"Then you'll be able to rest. You are quite tired, aren't you? You need some rest." Sohlushil's voice was coming both from her lips and from the inside of Nessaya's head, as there was now a telepathic link in place in between them, and it would be quite hard to discern in between her thoughts and Sohlushil's words.


Nessaya.

In fact, it became impossible for the poor little mermaid to tell her own thoughts from the words planted into her mind through the thick, all-coloured cloud of disorganized thoughts and seemingly intentionally placed tripwires. Her world was spinning rapidly, the sensation of her tailfin slowly but steadily pushing her body forwards barely making it to her brain in order to realize what was happening.

As the second passed, the thought of her deeming her body to be the perfect snack having actually been her own thought manifested itself, and did not move away. It was her idea. It is her idea. "I should feed myself to you..." she mumbled abscent-mindedly. "Yes..." Her voice was clear but also as monotonous as the ever steady flow of the emerald river.

Before too long, Nessaya's exotic beauty floated only a few inches away from Sohlushil and her open mouth. For a second, nothing happened. Another struggle inside the mermaid's head? No, the time for this had long passed, she only thought whether she should offer a hand or her tailfin to be the first thing tasted by the mighty sorceress fit to be fed to.

With a hypnotized smile, signaling the complete breaking of her mind, she leaned forwards, her face only inches from Sohlushil's and with half-closed eyes, reached out towards the latter's mouth, ready to pull through on her own brilliant idea of feeding herself to this reptilian beauty.


Sohlushil.

Sohlushil smiled deeply, satisfied with the results she had attained, but she had little time for that. The broken-willed mermaid reached in towards her mouth, offering her hands to be taken by Sohlushil. "Yes, that's it. You're doing great," Sohlushil said through their link, her words appearing straight into Nessaya's mind and confusing themselves with her own thoughts. "I'm sure she would be thankful for having you."

As she thought these words to boost the mermaid's confidence, Sohlushil set out to work on her new, more-than-willing meal. Sohlushil opened her mouth as wide as she could without forcing it, letting her small, pink tongue hang out of her mouth as drool began to drip down upon the mermaid's hands. She didn't even waste any time to properly lick her and spread her warm, sticky saliva over Nessaya's smooth skin, since she was already wet from the water.

Instead, she pulled her in with little ceremony. Slowly, Sohlushil allowed her eyes to roll back into her head as the flavor of the girl's skin hit her taste buds, making her shiver with excitement. "GRWRL," protested Sohlushil's stomach, eager to receive its new inhabitant. The Yuan-Ti made swift progress up to the mermaid's head, which she had tucked in between Nessaya's arms for easier consumption.

Soon, Nessaya could have a view of Sohlushil's lips opening widely - much more than they should be capable of - and enveloping the entirety of her head. Her world would become filled with the darkness and wet, squishy sounds of the Yuan-Ti's gullet, the platform of the tongue soon brushing up against the back of her head as she continued to draw her in with deep, powerful swallows.


Nessaya.

A reddened spot began to glow on the top of Nessaya's forehead, clearly visible, but too small to be described as a lump. That must have been a pretty hard impact on her head-over-heel escape attempt. The pain however was numbed away by the voices in her head that started to form a unisono choir of inserted thoughts, of 'yes's, 'go on's and 'relax, let it go...'.

There was little more happening behind her beautiful, but somehow dull looking eyes now, and not even the warm, wet feeling of Sohlushil's tongue on her slender, clean fingers could snap the mermaid out of her trance. A flavor akin to an exotic confection slowly seeped through the hypnotizers taste buds, a youthful tenderness caressing her lips as more and more of her prey made contact with her mouth and tongue.

The soft texture of Nessaya's skin virtually glided over Sohlushil's lips without any resistance as the mermaid's beautiful face vanished inside the Yuan-Ti's gaping maw, hot breath flowing into Nessaya's nostrils. Her eyes could see the light of the world slowly vanishing into a chamber of endless red. The air, the smell, the wet touch, everything was new and different, but none of these sensations managed to cut through the thick wall of control Sohlushil had erected around Nessaya's mind.

On the contrary, the mermaid still was enamored by the thought of becoming food to the strange visitor of her favorite relaxation spot, the encouragements still calling loud and clear inside a head that had now completely vanished inside a hungry maw, along with her hands and arms. The rest of her body, especially the slippery tail that grew smaller towards the tailfin at the end did not promise a lot of potential to resist becoming a pleasant filling to the loudly crying stomach beneath.

Sohlushil.

Sohlushil could swear she felt herself floating, her taste buds graced by such a delectable meal - there was no doubt about it in her mind, it was a shame to waste the opportunity to properly enjoy this meal, but there was also nothing she could've done. This was work; business as usual. She wasn't feeding for pleasure. Nessaya's face can be seen pressed against the Yuan-Ti's once flat belly, in sheer bliss - accepting to be consumed with all of her little, addled mind.

Sohlushil's throat muscles worked almost nonstop, forcing her midsection down further, as the imprint left by the mermaid begins to disappear behind Sohlushil's collarbone and chest. "ULLK... GULP. UUULP..." went the Yuan-Ti. A gurgling groan echoes up Sohl's throat as her stomach eagerly awaited its massive meal, the fleshy tunnel of the Yuan-Ti' throat carrying her downwards to her fate.

Nessaya's upper half was greeted by the acrid, thick air of Sohlushil's strong stomach, the vapor from the gastric juices alone causing Nessaya's eyes to sting as she was gradually deposited into that fleshy pocket of death inside of Sohlushil's belly. Soon, her body was squeezed through a tight ring of muscle leading into Sohl's wrinkled gut, her saliva-coated head squelching loudly through the tight, tiny hole.

Slowly, Nessaya's lower half squelches through that same hole, bloating out Sohlushil's gut as the entire weight of the mermaid filled her out - forcing the mermaid into an uncomfortable sitting position, somewhat similar to a fetus - one with a big tail, that is. After the last of the mermaid left the light of day for good, Sohlushil had to support her body against the boulder, actively using her arms to keep from being pushed under by the rapidly flowing water. Unlike the mermaid, she couldn't really breathe underwater.

As the calm of having such a large meal inside of herself started to take root, Sohlushil forced herself up the boulder - knowing full well that battle against the water wasn't one she could win for long. Not with what was to come, anyway - with the acids already in action within the stomach, she wondered for how long the spell would last since, technically, she would be directly harming the mermaid with that.


Nessaya.

An unusual, thick heat began to press itself into the soft silk of Nessaya's skin, as a tight tube of well-lubricated, pinkish red flesh guided her hydrodynamic body down into the inescapable chasm below, that bellowed and growled like an active volcano. Given the soundproof surroundings and direct contact to the vibrating flesh as Nessaya slipped head first down into demise, the sounds did very much resemble that of some natural catastrophe unfolding, and pressed hard against the tight web of conjured up thoughts inside her head.

The ticklish midriff vanished quickly, barely taking a strong gulp to be claimed, and the seam where her human underbelly turned into scaled, curvy hips still tasted of sea salt. This part of her body spread Sohlushil's throat well, more than the other, but after that hurdle was taken by her relentless swallows, it was like slurping up a wet noodle, ignoring the funny texture of her small, symmetrically arranged scales. Her tailfin wobbled around through the air before folding over itself and vanishing between closing, wet lips.

Inside Sohlushil's belly, Nessaya quickly curled up to a tight ball, slathered in thick, creamy soup which she fortunately could not see in the total darkness of the hypnotizer's sour stomach that started to sting and sizzle, first in Nessie's eyes, mouth and nose, then on her skin. The thoughts in her mind, "well done!, delectable!, good girl..." started to grow more quiet as she could, for a moment, notice the ear-to-ear smile that had been on her face the entire time.

Sohlushi's breath would begin to carry the sweet, lemony scent of her latest meal, while Nessaya's breaths started to cause her chest to hurt, as powerful fumes were in- and exhaled. She barely moved, but felt the wet, sticky walls around her start to kick into motion, beginning to knead thick slimy substance all over her captured body.


Sohlushil.

"BUUURRP." Sohlushil smiled contentedly to herself, awash with satisfaction after an enormous belch, significantly shrinking the new environment in which Nessaya found herself encased. On the inside, the walls of the Yuan-Ti's gut began to squirt acids onto her body, quickly beginning to pool at the bottom of Sohl's belly. The Yuan-Ti licked her lips clean of the thrilling taste of her victim, reveling in the delicious aftertaste even as her fiery belly began to slosh and churn loudly, the stomach having recognized and accepted the mermaid as its meal.

Cradling her stuffed gut, as if she were enormously pregnant, Sohlushil allowed herself to check upon Nessaya's thoughts, finding out that she couldn't - she smiled then, knowing her prey should have realized her situation by now, that warm sensation starting to bubble up in her chest and fill up her body. There was no small satisfaction within Sohlushil for the pain she knew she was about to cause. Not that she needed that link to guess pretty accurately at what the mermaid would've been thinking - and not like Nessaya could really contest Sohlushil's conclusions.

Sohlushil would crawl out of the currents to her hiding place inside the decrepit fort nearby. She waddled over to a silent, shadowed corner, and laid down with her belly upwards, adoring the sensation of Nessaya's weight upon her body.


Nessaya.

The guttural sound of Sohlushil quite unceremoniously releasing the spare air from her mermaid-filled gut rang like fleshy orchestral bells in Nessie's ears as the disgusting, warm cream had now covered her completely and was all over her, in her hair, and in between her slightly webbed fingers. The tight web of compliments inside her mind slowly melted away under the enormous and still growing heat she felt all over, in addition to a barely rhythmical swaying from left to right as her captor moved towards a safe spot out of water.

Instinctive shock and terror cut at the ropes that bound her mind and slowly, like waking from a medication-induced sleep, the mermaid started to become master of her senses again. Which was most unfortunate, because now she could feel all the sensations that came with being cramped up in someone's stomach, the smell, the feeling, the wetness, the slimy sounds, the unpredictable movement, inability to tell up from down, and the stinging, red hot sizzling of acids working to find a way past her tender skin.

In a matter of seconds, she was clear enough to struggle and to swallow down the thoughts of how weak she was falling for something like that, how easily she was enthralled into giving her life as precious nutrients. The fish-filling started to move and struggle, quickly muted cries to be let out and incomprehensible pleas sending pleasant vibrations through Sohlushil's swollen stomach. Nessaya tried to punch and kick with her powerful tail, but all she did was turn herself around inside the tight stomach, only getting more and more of her body marinated with foaming, bubbling acids.

Breathing became tough and a dull pain started to seep into her skin.


Sohlushil.

The Yuan-Ti felt the disturbance within her stuffed gut as Nessaya tried fighting back - but ultimately just managed to worsen her situation. Sohlushil's body was already into digestive frenzy, her digestive organs swelled with blood flow, and her heart pumped harder as its size swelled within her breast.

Sohl assumed nearly the exact same relaxed position she had held before her meal disturbed her. Her gut groaned, and gurgled ominously. A symphony of digestive processes started, and wouldn't stop until Sohl had completely broken the mermaid down. Sohl put one hand on her bloated gut lovingly, finally allowing herself to enjoy her catch.

Even if it had been purely out of business, there was no reason not to take what came from it now the deed had been done. Her eyes gradually narrowed as she put the squirming, kicking bulge out of her thoughts, slowly drifting into a deep, reptilian sleep. The Yuan-Ti's stomach churned and massaged the woman like a loving masseuse, coating her body in thick, slimy acids.

The powerful, slimy walls of the girl's stomach pulsated against Nessie's bare flesh, rippling all around her body and massaging acids into her pale skin. Her own, salty tears stung at her acid-burned cheeks. Mucus matted her beautiful red hair down against her head and face, as it slowly ate against the more resistant scales on her fish half.

"Braaap." Sohlushil would belch quietly as she snoozed, the stomach walls slowly contracted around the mermaid, until she was essentially entangled around herself in an uncomfortable position, which would only get worse and worse as time went on. Nessie would be able to feel each of the Yuan-Ti's breaths as she slept, able to feel and hear her lungs expanding and contracting. The girl's gut groaned loudly at her feet, her organs preparing themselves to receive the massive meal.


Nessaya.

The cooking heat, bellowing groans and screaming slushes, the sizzling foams and burning fumes all mixed together into a thick vapor of dread, as the slime below - wherever below was to Nessaya's blinded orientation sense - turned from soup into a thick paste, something Nessie would soon be unable to be recognized from, if she didn't manage to make it out in time.

But through all of this hypnosis, she now felt how incredibly exhausted she was. The lack of oxygen filtered by her burned lungs and gills didn't particularly help with this situation either. What was little more than a funnily moving bulge from the outside was a fight for life and death on the inside - a very clearly losing fight. The very tasty mermaid felt her scales touch her skin, swimming on top of the soup she was slowly bubbling into.

Her heart raced, her burned vocal foils barely managed to scream and plead now as goo-dripping hands searched for a solid spot to punch against, but to no avail. A red hot darkness surrounded her as the orchestra of digestive death pressed hard against her eardrums. Her skin's ability to feel touch or texture had gone, just like most of the organ, probably. The sweet scent of her body started to rise and mix with the acidic fumes as her struggles started to die down.

Her head conjured up some pitiful thoughts of the compliments and encouragements that were put into her mind to ease the pain as she slowly melted away, losing consciousness as the last bit of usable air was used up by her barely functioning lungs. Like a large lump of sourdough, she was kneaded into form and Sohlushil's belly would shrink down, becoming smoother and much softer to the touch.


Sohlushil.

Sohlushil awoke in the late evening, the sun was now just an orange haze casting faint shadows into the jungle. Sohl would feel her gut, which became much smoother and softer to the touch whilst she slept. She got up from her resting spot, her gut swaying as she slowly walked towards the edge of the water to have a drink. The cool liquid going down her throat to mix with the remains of the mermaid was like a blessing after all the liquids her body had spent to work Nessie down.

The water mixed with Sohl's stomach juices and mucus, bloating up the Yuan-Ti's gut a bit further - it became rounder, however, not anything close to what it looked like once the mermaid had been still recognizable inside. The mermaid's fleshy tomb would swell with newer liquids, helping speed along the process of digestion and absorption of her now broken body. Still sleepy from all the food she had ingested, Sohlushil went back to her resting place after satiating her thirst, her body ready for another go at Nessie's remains.

Sohl's mind was full of warm, fuzzy thoughts as her body started to get a trickle of much needed energy as the mermaid, now just meat slowly melting in the quickly intensifying environment, trickled into her rancid intestines to be taken advantage of.