Taken in by Kaa [M/M ASMR script]
Admit it, we all love Kaa.
As you read this, imagine it's being gently whispered to you.
Icon by scalesandspirals.
[Edit: I see this has been added to a non-consensual group, and while you could read it that way, I disagree with that - how do I remove a story from a group?]
Say, now...
What have we here?
It's a mancub.
A delicious mancub...
Oh?
You want me to go away?
No...?
Well.
If you don't want me to go away...
...it's only polite...
...to look at me.
Isn't it?
There we go.
I'm not so nasty to look at.
I'm not so scary.
I'm big, yes, but I don't look *bad*, do I...?
Thank you.
You're too kind.
I have very big eyes, I know.
I am very big.
And you are small...
What's that?
Ah, of course.
You're grown-up.
But you're very small to *me*, manling.
It's normal to be afraid, I think.
You're lost, after all, little one...
...and I bet you're hungry.
I'm starved.
Only joking.
But now that you're looking at me...
...and I'm looking at you...
...why don't you look me in the eye?
Are you still scared, mancub?
Of course. You're strong. You're not scared.
And... hs. Of course, you're not a mancub.
You're a Man.
It's just...
you smell so...
...innocent, I think is the word.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Little one.
Now.
You're looking in my eyes.
And...
You're following the way I move, aren't you?
Makes you want to move too.
And you know I can't blink, as a snake.
But that's okay.
You can blink all you like.
Blink when you need.
Fast or slow.
We'll find each other.
Follow each other.
Because...
...once we're looking at each other...
...all you can do...
...is look at me...
...and listen to me...
...and slowly... tire yourself out.
It's night-time.
It's good to relax.
Now, let's get you off to bed...
No, you may try arguing, but you're very sleepy, actually.
And now...
You've made a friend.
There'll be no big cats climbing up to take you away from me...
...no birds of prey, no silly monkeys...
...no, I'll protect you.
Just let me...
...curl...
...around you.
You're not so far gone into my eyes...
...that you can't...
...feel...
...my skin, on yours, boy.
And I'm soft, aren't I?
I'm safe.
So you're safe.
Safe enough for you to sleep.
Oh, I know it's not fair to keep saying these things.
I'm making you sleepier.
I can't help myself.
You respond so well.
Sleepy mancub.
See?
I just have to tell you you're sleepy...
...and your eyes get heavy.
Yes, mancub...
Please.
Go to sleep.
Sleep, little man-cub.
Rest in me...
Only joking.
See?
You respond so well.
Now...
...where were you going, in the morning?
Ah, the Man village.
Eugh. The Man village.
You don't want to go back to the Man village...
...but of course, you probably will, won't you?
But they're so...
...dishonest, you know?
They make dead skin to disguise what they look like...
What you look like...
Ah, it's no use arguing, anymore.
Now, no more talk 'til morning.
Please.
Go to sleep.
Sleep, little man-cub...
[giggle]
You won't be here in the morning.
Ah, let me...
Kiss you goodnight...
[he opens his maw and swallowing sounds echo through the listener's ears]
Ah...
You're sticking your legs out...
...so perhaps I'll save the kiss for another time.
...maybe later, you'll trust me enough.
[morning - a different tree]
Ah...
It's you.
And it's me.
So nice to see you again!
[hissing laugh]
Well, I can hardly see you under all my coils, here.
You really hog them, you know.
Even with them wrapped around you, you pulled more into yourself to sleep in.
There almost aren't enough coils left for me to sleep on...
But anyway.
Let me look at you...
No?
You don't want me to look at you...?
Then, you look at me.
[a long stare, the same swaying from before, and a smile, before finally]
Ahh, you know what I'm trying to do.
Don't you?
And...
You liked it.
I saw how you responded just now...
Don't bother denying it.
We know each other very intimately now, because after all...
...you talk in your sleep.
I talk in your sleep, too.
Do you remember?
No?
Ah...
Well, let me tell you...
I'll whisper it in your ear.
[he opens his maw again, and there are swallowing sounds again]
Hm?
Ah.
[mock-hurt] You don't trust me...
...so there's nothing I can do to help.
I do want to help you, after all.
I can see to it...
[coiling]
...that you never...
...have to leave...
...this Jungle.
How could I do that...?
I'd take care of you, and...
I have very subtle...
...Soft...
...but strong methods...
... of protection.
[long hiss] Of nurturance.
You speak in your sleep, mancub.
You spoke about friends leaving you...
...leaving you out here, alone.
You may be misremembering... because that is the truth. They left you alone.
I'm not like them.
Those so-called fair-weather friends of yours...
...you can believe in me.
That's it.
You can look in my eyes again, like we both know you need to...
And you can trust in me.
*Just* in me...
...if need be.
After all, you slept safe and sound up here.
With me all...
... around you.
I spoke in your sleep.
In your very heavy slumber.
I chased those dreams of betrayal away...
Shut your eyes, little one.
Just focus on listening.
Listening to your lessons.
Sometimes...
...we misremember.
We misremember so much...
...like you misremembered your friends, your family.
Eheh... as if you could call them that...
...abandoning you, like they did.
Now.
Open your eyes.
Look into mine.
And just... trust me on this.
You don't want to go back to the Man village.
You want to stay in the Jungle.
Yes...
I can see you smile as I say it...
...so you believe in me.
Ah, it's nearly the middle of the day...
...time for a siesta...
...you know what I do, at this time of day?
Usually, I sing myself to sleep.
Or speak myself to sleep.
You know...
Self-hypnosis.
Let me show you how it works...
I think we'll just...
Breathe together.
Breathe in through your nose, mancub...
...and out through your mouth.
Good boy.
Keep going.
In through your nose and out through your mouth...
...at your own pace.
...How could those Men pick on you?
Poor, little, helpless boy...
Yeah...
[he perks up, a little excited. a ring of colour happens as he does so]
...poor little helpless boy...
[he comes to his senses ... sort of. the eyes continue and stare into the viewer's]
...let's wrap this up...
...all comfy, in your pile of myself...
...you know, now...
...that you can't trust anyone...
...but me.
You said that yourself.
In your silent sleep.
[hissing laugh]
Sleep...
-
[in a new, darkened, dark-green area]
Poor, sweet little cub...
...oh, you're awake.
Hi, little cub.
There's food here.
If you want.
Go ahead.
Sweet thing.
Why do I keep moving you around the jungle, while you're asleep...?
Oh...
I've my reasons.
How long have you been asleep?
Oh, a long time...
Oh, no...
...don't be scared.
I'm not gonna hurt you.
You're not in trouble.
When I saw you...
...you were all alone out here.
That's no good.
We should never be alone.
Oh, are your human friends coming...?
I can stay with you until they get here.
Would that be all right?
I'll keep you safe.
Just you and me...
...sweet thing.
I never told you my name...
Let me whisper it --
No?
You still don't trust me...
My name?
Kaa.
Oh, you poor, sweet little cub.
What are you doing, so deep in the Jungle...?
Oh, don't you remember?
Don't you know what you are?
I know what you are.
I know where you came from.
Yes... I do.
I remembered, even though you forgot, during your long nap...
Would you like to see...?
Yeah, you would.
Just look in my eyes again...
Ah, you peeked...
Even if you might not have wanted to.
Now, you're free to misremember all you like, but the fact is...
You were, once, in the Man village...
...and you left it. All on your own.
And you went up a tree.
You got lost.
But the fact is...
...you belonged here, all along.
There's something like the wolf inside you, sweet thing...
...something of the frog.
Mostly, Men stay in their village.
Far from the dark of the Jungle.
Not you...
...you've sought it out.
It's your home.
Far from Man's guns, Man's... dead skins, and Man's...
...red flower.
Oh, no, no, don't be scared.
You're far from fire here.
Far away from its searing heat.
Its light.
Its destruction.
No, instead, you're safe here.
In the warm...
...wet, and dark, Jungle.
With me.
Ah, and your friends that came to the Jungle with you...
...all fed the Tiger, I'm afraid.
Shortly after abandoning you.
Shame...
But you're not alone. You have me.
Like I said...
...you can forget and misremember all you like...
...but since you're looking at me...
...all I say is the truth.
Isn't it?
Yeah.
You poor, sweet thing.
You want to stay in the Jungle?
Of course you do.
I knew you would.
You can be with me, if you want.
I'll keep you close.
Yes?
Oh, how did I know you'd want that?
Let go of your fear now...
...and trust...
...in me.
[his maw opens, and more slithery, soft, wet sounds happen as the viewer falls asleep]
-
There you are, manling.
You're awake.
Good.
It's night.
That's the time to be awake.
You've got a big day ahead, now...
...a day with a choice.
First...
...I'm going to be a little vain.
You remember how often I've said to you:
We are of one blood, you and I.
And you remember how close it brings us...
...as though we were, really, of one blood.
So you know me very well.
Do you see anything different...?
That's right --
Touch me.
[slithering sounds]
I am smoother.
I shine more.
It's my new skin...
I shed overnight.
Now, I am that tiny bit bigger...
...and softer... and stronger.
There we go...
Pick up the old skin.
There you are. You feel that softness?
Listen to it.
You may think it odd to see what covered one's head at one's feet...
...but I lack feet, of course.
This shedding business comes naturally to my people.
Not easily...
...but naturally.
But the new skin never comes into itself before the first bath...
...so that is where we are going.
...ah?
You want to carry me?
Silly mancub.
I am still strong --
-- I can still squeeze you --
-- to a pulp, if I wanted.
But I only wish to please you.
I love you, little frog.
Little brother.
So this...
...is as tight...
...as the chokehold gets...
...how long can you take this?
Do you feel that?
We are of one blood, you and I.
I touch you here...
...and here...
...are you numb, yet?
[hissing laugh]
Now, into the water with you, still wrapped tight in me.
There...
...yes.
Hs?
What is your choice?
Well...
You are becoming a man.
You are clever, and agile, but it is not enough.
What do you need...?
You need freedom.
The freedom you have in the Jungle.
You wrapped yourself in the humans' dead skins, trapping you...
...and you no longer need them.
It is not easy, your first shed.
And once you have shed your skins... you are naked.
Like the frog.
Like the wolf.
You are bare. You are more free.
You are more honest.
You are yourself.
Once you have shed the old skin...
...you may never...
...creep back in.
This is your choice:
The freedom of the Jungle...
...or the captivity of the Man-village, little brother.
Man, some say, must go to Man.
I say...
Oh, I cannot say.
I cannot make your choice for you.
Hs?
You need my advice...?
There's a first...
...but...
...I say...
...If man comes to man, let man come to you.
If they needed you, they'd have found you, little brother.
And they didn't find you, did they?
I did.
You remember how your human friends left you all alone...
...and you wouldn't step on a rotten bough to climb a tree, would you?
Or if you did, you wouldn't do it again.
No...
I say, shed.
That's it --
It's so dirty, after all this time, that you don't need your shirt.
There you go...
All off.
Now.
Take off your belt...
...you can be as slow or fast as you like...
...there you go.
...now...
...everything else, my little one.
My mancub.
Go on...
Isn't it better to be bare?
Sweet thing.
Isn't it better that I can see you?
Poor, little, helpless boy...
...yeah...
...poor little helpless boy....
now.
Now, you're naked.
You feel my scales, on your skin?
Here, on your sides?
Here, on the soles of your feet?
Now, if I just wrap...
...and coil...
...and pile myself just so, around you...
...just this tight..
...and if I slide my head above you in your coccoon...
...then all you can feel is me.
Now, my naked mancub.
Is there still light enough to see?
Yes....
So look in my eyes.
...and can you move even your hands, your feet, without me allowing it?
No... and that's perfect...
...it's what you wanted all along.
After all...
...we are of one blood, you and I, forever.
I know... you're welcome...
How did I know what you needed?
Well, you talk in your sleep.
I talk in your sleep, too.
And I had a hunger...
...for my own strong little mancub.
My little brother.
We are of one blood, you and I, forever.