Shai looked downward at the glittering surface of the lake. To the north, a waterfall poured into the lake, a constant stream, and to the east a river led away, presumably to the ocean, eventually. The sunlight reflected from the water and off the scales of Shai's great reptile body; his head was gigantic, over two feet at the widest points and his eyes were black as coal, deep as night. Metallic scales covered his length, sixty two feet from nose to tip of tail, all the colors of night and fire, black on his belly and head, red and yellow on his back. It was impossible to tell what the greast beast was thinking, even as his thick split tongue emerged and flickered at the warm afternoon air.
'It wass a thoussand yearss,' said Shai, and his voice was both a deep baritone rumble and sliding silver hiss. Lian, at his side, sitting on the grass and feet dangling into the cool lake water, looked up at him. Her hair was blonde, loose, blowing gently in the breeze. It dangled to her mid back, light against her sun-bronzed skin. She wore no clothing at all, and her body was muscular but not muscled; her body had form and definition, but she was soft to the touch and curved. When she smiled, her teeth were white and slightly uneven, a little gap between her front teeth. Her breasts were large and full.
Ater a moment, Shai continued. 'It wass a thoussand yearss of eating a woman a day, and passsing their sskeletonss into thiss lake, before I could ssee their sskeletonss from the ssurface of the water.' He adjusted his coils as he spoke, a loop of his body pressing against Lian's bare side. Within his body was the bulge of a woman- thick at hip and breast, thin at waist, feet and head. He had swallowed her whole a few hours back, and she was passing, still alive in his body, to his belly. 'Thiss water iss very clear,' he said, turning his head to stare into Lian's eyes. Clear membranes blinked upward over his eyes as he spoke, and his breath was cold, musky. 'The lake iss very deep.' He turned his head back outward. 'It hass been almosst two thoussand years ssince that day.'
'Shai,' said Lian, and her voice was a pleasant alto to his baritone. She rubbed Shai's body, tracing the swallowed woman within him, her fingers light against his scales. Touching the bulge of the woman within the giant snake made her feel warm between her legs, as it always did. 'I've been with you now for three years. Why haven't you eaten me?' She kicked her feet in the water, and her toes brushed bone.
The lake, a mile from side to side and almost a mile and a half from waterfall to river mouth, was full of clean washed bone. Some of the stacks of bone pushed upward from the surface of the water, but most was just under the surface. Around her feet were stacked skulls and ribs, long bones piled on small. Vertabrae and finger bones settled to the bottom of the lake first, sliding between the larger as the lake water washed them. Jawless skulls stared upward, and she pushed her toes into an empty set of eye sockets.
Shai turned his head again to look to her, the sound of his reptile body turning that of coins and old leather. His black, seemingly pupiless eyes looked at her again from toe to crown of head. His head dipped and he flickered his tongue gently against the moist patch of hair between her legs and his breath caught. After a moment, during which the world seemed to stand still, he continued looking upward until his eyes were on a level with hers.
Whispering, his voice was deeper, gravel and scratching barbed wire. 'I want to eat you,' he said, and his forked tongue gently played against her breasts as he spoke. 'I want to sswallow you alive, sslowly. Tasste you as I eat you. Digesst you alive for hourss, maybe dayss.' His voice dropped lower, hard to understand through his rumble. 'Your body in my sstomach.'
Lian's breath was catching and her lower belly was on fire. As Shai spoke, her hand dropped between her legs and worked there, a finger dipping within herself and she was wet, so damp, so hot and tight around her finger. Her breasts ached and she gasped as she breathed. 'God, Shai,' she whispered and rubbed her breasts hard against the woman inside Shai's body. 'Eat me. Open your mouth and eat me.'
Shai's head was weaving as he spoke, eyes unfocused. His tongue was surrounded by the wet essence of Lian's aroused groin with each flick, each tasting of the air around them. His world was the breath and taste and heat given off by Lian's crotch and it was as if her vagina had swallowed him as he spoke, for her essence was all around him. 'Feeling you sslide down my throat, your ssex againsst my tongue,' and it felt as if he would die- he wanted to eat her, to breathe her.
'Oh Shai,' sobbed Lian, one hand working between her legs furiously- she needed to achieve sexual release, she needed to be eaten alive, she needed something- something, but Shai refused her. Shai refused her as she sobbed and masturbated, rubbing her desperate body against the bulge of the swallowed woman in the body of the snake. 'Shai, you have to eat me alive.' And the tears ran down her cheeks as she came, orgasm wracking her body.
Shadows lengthened and the afternoon cooled as Lian slept on her back, legs parted, beside Shai. His head rested on a loop of his coiled body and he stared out over the lake, the bones of over a million swallowed and dead women filling the lake before him. His tongue flickered periodically in the near silence, broken only by quiet birdsong and the lapping of water.