Workplace Mentality

Chapters

Deceptive appearances
Down the snake hole
Perfectly normal
The fine print
True hiring
Epilogue

Deceptive appearances

Twinwing rested his head on his hoof, staring out the window at the scenery as it flicked past the train cart window. Evergreens and tall oaks rising and falling over grassy green hills. Despite the wonderous view presented to those on board, Twinwing wasn’t engrossed in the view, instead he was sulking as he stared up towards the sky. Slowly turning his gaze back over towards the front of the train he looked down at the table between him and the empty seat opposite him. A small letter sat unfolded on the table facing Twinwing, who sighed, rereading it yet again.

“Dear Twinwing,
It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you of your employment termination effective immediately, due to budget cuts to the company several members of staff have been let go this is not a direct offence to you as an individual but a necessary sacrifice for the company’s continuity. Should you ever consider reemployment with us or another workplace under our brand please provide the slip contained with this letter as a means of reference for past service and skills.
With regards, your boss, Paper Clips.”

Twin scoffed scrunching the letter up and throwing it towards a bin, tapping against the lid and rolling out of sight behind it. Twin wasn’t too disappointed about the loss of his job, it had been rather miserable in terms of both the work itself and the work environment, however it has been a steady source of income… income he no longer had access too. Twin had taken a decent sum of his money from his account and booked a short holiday in Canterlot city, perhaps some time to relax would do him some good after the recent disaster. Though, part of him also felt guilty as it would make money even tighter than before on his return.

The train whistle caused Twin to shake his head, clearing the distracting thoughts from his head as he stood up, collecting his bag from under his seat and following along the mass crowd of ponies. As Twin saw the carriage doors ahead of him open, many of the ponies oohed in awe, as Twin shuffled towards the front he did likewise. Canterlot was like no other city in Equestria. The scenery of a waterfall cascading down a massive mountain, the contrasting white and gold colours of the city and the many golden suns atop the towers. Twin stared, his woes fading from the front of his mind as he, alongside the many tourists and visitors, gawked in amazement at the slice of grounded heaven.

Twin followed behind the massive crowd of ponies into the station, tickets and passports being shown, guards shuffling and leaning on their spears as they watched the civilians shuffle past one at a time. Once Twin had passed through the checkout he headed outside and gasped. The crisp, warm summer air was complimented by a soothing cool breeze, unlike the train cart, rippling the grass causing it to sway photogenically. However, what made Twin gasp was not in fact the surroundings, but the little crowd of ponies waiting at the station, holding the trademark signs with names printed on the front. One mare in particular caught Twin’s attention, the body of an Earth pony stood tall, one hoof holding a sign casually whilst the other leaned on the metal fence separating those disembarking. But instead of hind legs and a bushy tail, a smooth, sleek serpent’s tail simply grew out of her lower waist, trailing and twisting around behind the mare, glittering in the sunlight. The snake-pony took notice of Twin staring and looked over, a sly grin stretching over her face before a voice caused her to turn away, distracted as a stallion wandered over, as if floating, back towards the predator mare.

Twin snapped back to reality and made his way off the station towards the city itself, passing over the drawbridge and through the gate. Twin noticed more of the snake-ponies scattered amongst both the guard and the crowds wandering about. Twin couldn’t help but admire the shimmering scales flowing behind each one, like colourful, rainbow-like water ripples but on land. Twin glanced from building to building, each a beautiful contrast of colours, as if a rainbow had flown through the city colouring each one itself, plants and flowers bloomed from window sills and small gardens and Twin smiled. The sound of a soft bell chime caught Twin’s attention and he looked over at a little coffee shop. Twin might have kept going until he saw the sign, a small snake curled around a coffee cup, its tongue flickering into the liquid within… surely a drink and a small bite wouldn’t hurt, and maybe Twin could learn about what all these creatures around town were!

The bell rang out once again as Twin stepped into the little cramped space, small two seat tables had been forced in alongside wooden chairs, green tops with white table cloths, little sugar sachets sat within the confines of miniature snakes, wrapped in their coils. Despite being on a public road, the shop was nearly empty beside Twin and one other customer by the far wall, reading a paper as he sipped a purple coloured tea. Twin sat down and had to stifle a gasp as another snake-pony slithered over with a menu, surprisingly agile in the narrow spaces between the tables.

“Good morning can I get you anything?” She asked with a sweet smile, Twin noticing two sets of long fangs in between her grin and his throat tightened a little.

“Oh uh… just a hot chocolate please.” Twin said and the lamia nodded turning back over her own tail before disappearing into the kitchen briefly before returning and setting the drink down with some cold milk and a tea spoon. As the mare turned to slither away again Twin spoke up “Um excuse me,”

The lamia turned back to Twin “Yes?” She asked politely.

Twin shuffled in his seat and looked down at his drink nervously “What… are you?” Twin asked trying to be as polite as he could with the blunt question.

“I’m a lamia, half pony half snake. We live here, one of our own runs the nation now the Princesses have stepped down.” Twin looked up at her and she nodded insistently that the statement was true “Anything else?” Twin shook his head “Okay, please, enjoy.”

Twin sipped his hot drink, looking outside as a pair of lamias slithered by. Noticing a lonely stallion, the pair converged on him and looped their tails over his neck and shoulders, talking before the stallion followed them down the next turn. Twin shuffled again, rubbing his neck, imagining how it might feel to have a coil pressed up against his windpipe, tightening slowly. Twin gulped and quickly finished his drink, leaving more than enough bits before leaving, the lamia who had informed him of her species name saying a cheerful goodbye.

Twin gulped once outside, rubbing his neck absentmindedly as he walked, unable to stop himself patting his neck nervously every few seconds each time he saw a lamia “I should find a hotel… it has been a long trip.” Twin mumbled as he made his way towards the overnight district.

“I’m sorry sir, but we have no rooms, if you’d booked in advance we could have sorted something out.” Twin sighed “Have you tried any of the others?” The receptionist offered Twin.

“Yes, half a dozen others.” He said, blushing, booking a hotel was sort of a major thing for a holiday.

“Well, if you can’t find anywhere you can always ask one of the lamias… they’re so… kind… they always love visitors.” Twin nodded, not noticing the pony’s vacant expression as they thought of the wonderous serpents slithering around outside.

Twin left the seventh hotel and sighed, rubbing his forehead slightly as he glanced around before wandering off. Stupid, it was just plain stupid to think he could book a room on the day he got there in a major city like Canterlot! Twin rubbed his eyes, tired from wandering around and carrying his suitcase everywhere with him. He was attracting a fair few glances now as ponies began to recognise him wandering from hotel to hotel and Twin quickly shuffled off the main road, down a tight alley. Twin emerged on the opposite side of the hotel street, it was oddly quiet by contrast and the high buildings seemed to muffle most sound, creating the illusion he was further from any other living pony than he actually was in reality. Twin continued on his way, glancing around, hoping to find a bed and breakfast perhaps or maybe even just a pub or inn for the night.

Twin found neither, but what he did find was a small business office tucked between an old shop up for lease and an occupied marble white house. The window of the office advertised various job positions and awards for assisting in employment opportunities. Twin stared at the offers for a long time before deciding that, even if he had no chance of getting a job here since he didn’t have enough bits for a house or apartment, at least he’d be able to sit down for a while.

Twin pushed his way inside and a mare looked up from a magazine at his arrival. Twin didn’t see much of the cover, besides a purple sheen and a lamia curled over a large log, but the way the mare stowed it under her desk so hastily made Twin think it had little to do with latest songs or gossip. Twin gratefully took a seat across from the mare who smiled as he sighed, shuffling to get comfy.

“Hello, how can I help you?” The mare asked.

“Yeah um… I’d like a job… heh, obviously. I was hoping to see what you have available?” Twin asked nervously, despite not really expecting to get one, Twin couldn’t help feel a little hopeful twinge in the back of his mind.

“Of course, anything specific?” The mare asked tapping away at her computer briefly, no doubt bringing up a program to help narrow down the selections.

“Er,” Twin paused “Not office work.” He said quickly.

“Alright, office work gone…”

“I suppose I could do serving or construction.” Twin suggested.

“Sorry, construction is full and the local hospitality industry has already closed their open job offers now the main season has started… I do have a few jobs in retail.” The mare suggested looking up at Twin.

“Alright… but um… see I don’t really have the funding to afford a home, do any offer… renting or something?” Twin asked.

The mare shook her head “No, sorry…” The mare paused and, for a second, Twin could have sworn her eyes had changed from brown, like his own, to red and purple. The mare seemed to freeze, her hoof hovering over her keyboard and she let out a long sigh “Sir… how do you feel about the lamias in charge of Canterlot?” She asked softly.

“Oh… they’re interesting I suppose, I’ve not been here long, just a few hours ago honestly.” Twin admitted before immediately scolding himself, if he didn’t know the city that would limit more jobs.

“Would you mind working for one?” Twin thought it over then shook his head “I have a perfect job… hospitality staff for Scale manor, room and board is provided free of charge and you can start as soon as you like. Tomorrow even, as the work day will have already started.” The mare looked at Twin hopefully.

“Sure, it could be interesting. Starting soon it also useful.” The mare suddenly banged her hooves on the table, causing Twin to jump in surprise at the unexpected outburst, shivering as if being hit with static as she shut her eyes, smiling and moaning softly.

“G-guh-GREAT! I’ll give you the address and you can head there right away!” The mare said and Twin stared for a moment as the mare hastily wrote the message down for him, as well as giving him a little sealed slip of paper “H-here you are, give that to the gate guard so they’ll let you i-in!”

“Thank you.” Twin said smiling, this trip was going alright by his count! Even if he had just cancelled his holiday on a whim for a possible job…

Once Twin had left, the door shutting behind itself, the mare leaned back in her chair moaning as she held her throat, almost drooling as her eyes shifted colours “I goooht you another one Mistress!!” She moaned to nopony in particular.

Twin stared at the scribbled street on the piece of paper, turning it sideways and even upside down, hoping to understand it better. The mare seemed to have developed a sudden bout of serious shakes and Twin didn’t understand or even know why that had happened. Twin glanced around and wandered up to the first mare he saw, which happened to be a lamia.

“Excuse me,” Twin said and the lamia turned from her friend smiling, her tail raising itself up and looping around Twin’s neck, holding his head up with the tail tip. Twin could feel the thick muscles and fat mushing against his throat under him as he was made to stare up at the lamia inspecting him “I… need directions, please…”

“Where to?” The second lamia asked beginning to slide her tail towards him, flexing and shifting the muscles along it in anticipation.

“Scale manor.” Twin said and the lamia stopped, her tail pulling back, however her smile, surprisingly, remained.

“Right of course, just down that street, turn right and continue on to the last building. Can’t miss it, it looks like a miniature castle!” The lamia said, raising her hoof and pointing as she spoke the specific directions, tugging on Twin’s neck making him gulp and propelling him forward past the pair as they giggled once they’d told him what he wanted to know.

Twin kept going, wondering what was amusing them so much as he took their directions towards the manor. Twin halted, the two lamias were right it was just like a miniature castle! Thick limestone walls several stories tall with enough room for passage between them, each corner rising higher with watch towers, and a large polished steel gate that was currently rolled down. As Twin got closer he could see ponies moving atop the castle walls, and one peeking over from the nearest tower at him, probably informing those below of his approach. Twin felt a little nervous, despite the fact he had been informed to head here for the job application. Once Twin reached the gate there was a lamia waiting on the other side. He was wearing a chest plate much like the ones worn by the royal guard, but deep purple instead of gold and a purple scarf wrapped around their necks, a purple iris with a black slitted pupil watching Twin from the centre of his throat, the emblem marked into a pin to keep the scarf in place. He had a helmet shaped like a viper, with a large open hood and the visor over his eyes was coloured with a multitude of colours, but Twin was just barely able to make out the slitted eyes underneath. Was that allowed, the visor colouration, or was it standard for this manor guard?

“Why are you here?” The guard asked softly.

“I was told I could get a job here… I um… have a slip…?” Twin said uncertain he would accept this. The guard however held out a hoof close to the gate bars and Twin slipped the paper through, the guard pulling it away to read it, removing his helmet to do so.

Twin rocked back and forth nervously on his hooves, tapping his suitcase with his hooves, though he stopped when the guard glanced up at him briefly with an irritated expression.

Once done, the guard adorned his helmet again before turning and waving his hoof in a circular motion and the gate began to grind up slowly “Follow me, I’ll get somepony to interview you.” He ordered and Twin hoisted his bag up, following after him.

Twin looked around, noticing a small building that more lamias were leaning out of, alongside a few ponies, looking at the newest arrival, all wearing the same armour. Twin was also able to confirm the colouration of the visors was deliberate as it was matched across every one he could see. Twin felt his cheeks flush at being checked out by so many ponies at once and was glad when they reached the mansion. Twin glanced up at the multi-storey obsidian coloured house, looking left and right as they stood in the middle of the large C shaped building, Twin pausing as he stared into the greenhouse nestled on one side. The interior was full of strangely coloured plants and Twin could just faintly see slivers of white moving around and a figure, watching him. A feeling of both fear, awe and desire rumbled in Twin and he wasn’t sure if he wanted to gallop over or away. Before he could decide Twin was led inside, the lamia tugging on his hoof with a stray coil to get him moving again.

“Wait here.” The guard said in his soft monotone voice as he disappeared towards the side with the greenhouse. It wasn’t long until Twin could hear the soft ruffle of a tail on carpet and the padded sound of hooves clipping over the floor.

The guard returned, passing Twin by and returning outside towards the gate, leaving him alone with the stranger who he had been walking with. Plain white with a white and blue streaked mane, the stranger seemed to be looking THROUGH Twin as opposed to at him, yet he also acknowledged his presence by looking him up and down. He was wearing a red suit that, when Twin moved, seemed to shift in the light as if it had thousands of individual little patterns, it took Twin a while to realise it was a mimicry of snake scales. He also wore a little white collar that looked oddly large and thick with the trademark eye of a lamia over his throat.

“So, you are here for a position?” He finally asked, his expression hardly shifting.

“Um, yes please.” Twin said awkwardly as he shuffled, however this nervousness seemed to perk the stallion up slightly as he smiled.

“Wonderful, I will get a member of staff to show you around the manor. You will be among the service and cleaning staff, as you know, so you will clean and take anything the Mistress requests to her wherever she may be. Understand?” Twin nodded “Good, I will be in my office,” He said, pointing to his office “I’m Alex Holmes by the way, head butler, I’ll be your supervisor.” Alex finished before returning inside his office to continue his work. Or so Twin assumed.

“Don’t you need my name?” Twin asked the closed door quietly “How is he going to get another member of staff from in there though?” Twin thought before hearing another pony approaching from the other side… what?

A tall blood red pegasus, wearing a matching uniform to that of Alex’s, turned the corner His brown and red coloured mane was slightly ruffled, like his tail, and he seemed to be breathing oddly heavily, as if he was recovering from being short of breath.

“Hello,” He panted with a smile, his gaze was much more focused than Alex’s, but Twin did notice he seemed a little distracted, occasionally shutting his eyes as if his thoughts kept drifting “I’m Boltblood Thundercloud… Bolt’s fine… I’m going to show you around the manor.” He said and Twin nodded “You can leave your bag at the door, in case you decide this isn’t for you.” Something about Bolt’s tone indicated that was a disgusting suggestion.

“Oh, okay… I’m Twinwing, nice to meet you?” Twin offered a hoof and Bolt shook it, he was surprisingly strong for a pegasus.

As Twin set his bag down Bolt stood staring before responding “Nice to meet you too.” Though his voice was friendly, the long pause was a little eerie “Follow me.” Bolt waved a hoof turning on his hooves and making his way down the corridor.

Bolt made a direct route for the kitchen, as Twin saw the stainless white doors Bolt glanced back at him “You’re going to be a butler, right?” Twin nodded “Oh good, we need some new ones after the dinner a few months ago. A lot of staff… left with the lamia visitors.” Bolt fluttered his wings as he flushed slightly “Anyway, this will most likely be your second most visited room, besides whichever ones you are allocated to clean. I’m the head chef I take care of the staff here,” Bolt gestured with a hoof around the room, four other ponies were dotted around, two mares cleaning and two chefs checking stock lists “When Mistress orders food come here and I’ll make it and take it to her.” Bolt explained.

“Shouldn’t a waiter take the food?” Twin asked confused.

“Normally yes but… well, Mistress prefers it if I take it.” Twin raised an eyebrow “It’s how things run here, you’ll get use to it.” Bolt said with a confident nod.

“Okay, if you say so.” Twin said a little confused by the change of norm.

Bolt led Twin around, showing him the living room, a moodily lit room with many cushions and a constant fire in the wall before a large pile of cushions that seemed to blaze the room with more warmth than was needed or should be able to produce. As Bolt finished on the side of the manor Twin noticed one room they’d missed.

“Hay, what’s through there?” Twin asked.

“Oh, that’s the greenhouse, it has a bunch of plants from the Mistress’ homeland in the Badlands. Mistress doesn’t spend much time in there I’ve noticed, usually just to collect herbs for jobs.” Bolt said staring at the door, no doubt he also collected seasoning leaves and such for the meals.

“What does… um ‘Mistress’ do?” Twin asked.

“Oh, she’s an enforcer, the lamia Queen’s Hypnotic Tail, to be specific. She deals with ponies trying to overthrow the current lamia rule and maintains order and safety, deals with resistances that have some really strange and outlandish ideas about lamias. But she’s nice, takes care of her staff, usually pays around double the minimum and all commodities here are free, though punishments are harsh but you normally earn them if she has to get involved instead of Alex or another staff member.” Twin shrugged, sounded like a nice enough employer to him.

As Bolt tried to lead Twin back towards the other side of the manor to continue the orientation tour, the door to the greenhouse opened and Bolt quickly turned back and bowed as the lamia of the house slithered out. She was a beautiful artic clean snow-white unicorn with a mane like a fire ablaze, deep captivating purple eyes with a black snake slit. Her tail matched her body and mane respectively with its body and underbelly and she was huge! Her tail could have looped around maybe a dozen ponies at once! Not to mention how heavy and thick it appeared. The lamia paused upon realising the pair were looking at her, smiling at Bolt before looking at Twin, inspecting him slowly with her gaze, looking over the white bodied pegasus that was so similar to her own.

“Who do we have here?” The lamia asked approaching Twin.

“A possible new member of staff.” Bolt said standing up.

“Possible?” She asked looking at Bolt.

“I haven’t signed on yet… just… seeing what I’ll have to do before I start.” Twin explained and she stared at him for a moment.

“Well, Bolt, why don’t you return to the kitchen and I’ll continue showing this fine stallion around.” Bolt glanced at Twin then his Mistress “I insist.” She said before he could try to argue.

“As you wish.” Bolt said, sounding slightly dejected, though Twin didn’t know why. Bolt left and headed towards the kitchen, pushing the door open with a little more force than was needed.

“Don’t worry about Bolt, he just likes it when he has my affection, like all the other staff really,” The lamia paused mumbling softly “The smart ones anyway.” Twin looked over unsure if he’d misheard “Now, follow me, I’ll show you the rest of my home and I’ll chose where you will be working.” The lamia began slithering ahead and Twin followed beside her, glancing sideways every so often “Tell me, what’s your name? I’m Ruby Scales.” Ruby said placing a hoof to her chest.

“Twinwing.” Twin said with a slightly sheepish smile.

“Twinwing, hmmm? What a nice name. So, tell me, have you ever worked with lamias before?” Ruby asked.

Twin let out a little laugh “Er, before I got here today I didn’t know lamias existed. I was rather surprised, I might have been scared but everypony on the station was just so nonchalant about them.” Twin said and looked at Ruby to see how she’d react, a little nervous as he expected her to be concerned that he had no experience with her species.

“You know nothing of us?” Twin shook his head “Wonderful!” Ruby said with a wide smile “Then I can… ‘educate’ you whilst you work for me.” Twin felt his double wings flutter at his side at the suggestion and Ruby chuckled, running a coil through Twin’s orange and blue tipped mane, rubbing down the back of his neck and brushing his tail.

Twin almost stopped, just to lean into the serpent’s touch, it was smooth and cool, but also weighty with a nice bit of pressure and cinching to match to sooth his muscles. Ruby would make an expert masseuse. When Ruby pulled Twin to the side more forcefully, having almost wandered into a wall beside a ramp to the second floor, he shook his head back to reality and opened his wings, pushing Ruby’s tail off with them.

“Were you not enjoying that?” Ruby asked.

“No, I just want to be able to focus on what you’re telling me to do.” Twin said as the pair approached a small haggle of ponies just outside a room emitting constant chatter, which Ruby confirmed his suspicions as the break room.

They were all alert and looked rather nervous at Ruby’s approach but bowed nonetheless. Twin gave a little wave and one of the mare’s spoke up “A new pet, Mistress?” She asked and her friends shuffled on the spot, frightened.

“No, a new butler and cleaner, hopefully.” Ruby said levelly.

The mare watched as they passed by, before saying to her friends, in a carrying whisper “He’ll end up one though.” Twin noticed Ruby’s tail twitch and slither an extra time, as if irritated.

“What did she mean?” Twin asked, concerned.

“Nothing,” Ruby smiled patting Twin’s head with a coil “I just…” Ruby cleared her throat “Have… ‘other’ staff.” Twinwing’s wings pomfed out at this statement, his face turning red and Ruby chuckled. In all honesty she had no problem with that sort of services or speaking of it, but it was a good knock off.

“O-oh, ri-right.” Twin mumbled, glancing down the second-floor hallway at the various doors.

“The bedrooms staff are provided with,” Ruby explained.

“Can I take a look?” Twin asked.

“Oh well…” Ruby shuffled about, as if looking for a way out of this situation “Alright, but they are rather… small…” She admitted “I do need a lot of staff, as you’d imagine, so I had to be conservative…” Ruby watched as Twin approached an unoccupied room and opened it.

The room was barely the size and length of two ponies laying atop each other. A single window, small and rounded, bathed the room in a surprising amount of light. There was a little desk tucked into the right side and a ‘bed’ piled on the floor.

Twin wandered inside, poking the bed, before rubbing it. It was very reminiscent of Ruby’s coils in both colour and feel, though softer and with less form “Strange… so this is where I’ll sleep?” Twin asked.

“Yes, just sleep, the break room has games and much more recreational activities. Video games, reading as well as meals things along those lines.” Ruby said.

“Oh, that’s fine, I thought this was my only free space.” Twin said and Ruby beamed.

“Glad to hear it Twinwing, now shall I go over what I’ll expect you to do on a day to day basis?” Ruby suggested and Twin nodded “Alright,” Ruby motioned for Twin to leave the room and Ruby shut the door, lighting up a little plaque on the door changing it to his name with ‘butler’ underneath. Ruby’s writing was very neat, at least using magic “You’ll begin you day by heading to one of the staff bathrooms here,” Ruby motioned to a few doors, which Twin peeked inside of, like the bedroom the bathroom was sized to be as small as possible to be useable but not take up access space. Just a shower, sink and toilet were present inside.

Twin moved back out, shutting the door “Then?” He asked, promoting Ruby to continue.

“You will head down here, to this bathroom, my own,” Ruby pushed the door open and Twin felt like he’d wandered into an indoor pool as opposed to a bathroom! Twin could see where the staff bathrooms poked out and why so much room was needed for Ruby, the bath was like those used for professional swimmers and she used it just to bathe? Twin gulped “Don’t worry, the taps will fill it up faster than you’d expect. Once it’s full of hot water get the shampoos and scale oils ready,” Ruby nodded to a shelf full of various selections of both.

“How do I know which you want?” Twin asked.

“You don’t.” Ruby answered smiling and Twin suddenly looked concerned “Don’t panic,” Ruby flicked Twin’s nose with her tail tip giggling “I like them all, and I promise you’ll enjoy them too.” Why would Twin enjoy them?

“Anyway, once you’re all set, head upstairs and wake me, do you know how to wake a lamia?” Twin tilted his head at Ruby’s odd question.

“There’s a specific way to wake you?” He asked and Ruby giggled.

“No, but it’s the way I like to get up, here…” Ruby had Twin stand on his hind legs and hold his forelegs, Ruby then placed a thick coil atop them and helped him wrap it over his shoulder down his side like it was an ammo bandolier “You wrap yourself up, get your warmth in my cold scales. It helps me wake up.” Twin flushed but nodded with a little smile.

“Okay.” Was all he managed as Ruby pulled her tail away, flicking his chin to turn his gaze back up as he watched the point around Ruby’s waist shift and flex as she moved her tail.

“Now, let’s keep going,” Ruby said slithering back out the room “Once I’m clean and ready for the day you will head up to my room,” Ruby began heading up a spiral ramp, leading to a single door, pushing it open revealed a large, lavish looking room, though with very little furniture despite that. A large fireplace, which was just low embers now and looked slightly blackened and dirty as if suffering from cleaning neglect, a walk-in wardrobe that dominated one whole wall, a few noticeable gaps in the line-up available, with a little pile set aside with dark coloured garments, and the bed, which was the size of a normal room, the bedsheets were slightly ruffled and messy and beside it, on a bedside table, was a small stack of sealed folders. Ruby flushed “Sorry it’s such a mess,” Ruby said flushing “I’ve been getting a lot of work recently after the dinner and festival so even I couldn’t tidy up after myself. Some ponies didn’t take to the royal sisters stepping down from leadership in place of our kin very well and seem to think they can force them out of retirement and the festival was thanking ponies for accepting us, which they didn’t like, so, yeah… that and a load of staff got eat- …switched jobs for other lamias after the dinner.” Ruby said, somehow smoothly shifting, not even with a little stutter, from what she had been about to originally say.

“Well, it would be redundant to hire me if it was all clean already, right?” Ruby smiled nodding at Twin’s point.

“Naturally. Once I’ve had my bath you’ll head up here, put out the fire if it is still burning so it can cool out, make the bed, take any dirty clothing down to the laundry room, there’s a little side room not far from the greenhouse that heads downstairs to where it is, it also has dusting equipment, come back here and dust and then clean out the fireplace and relight a new fire. You’ll find it to be more than enough work, but just in case it isn’t see to the living room as well as I spend a lot of time there. You know where it is?” Twin nodded.

“Bolt showed me earlier.” Twin said and Ruby nodded happily.

“Good, I was concerned you might not know. Anyway, when you’re cleaning the living room, if you get to it, and I’m there you’re more than welcome to wrap a coil or two around your body, I know it can get quite warm.” Ruby said with a grin “No doubt Bolt told you if I want food you’ll take the order to him?” Another nod “Wonderful, he’ll bring it out so your own duties won’t be interrupted. Now, do you have any questions?” Ruby inquired “Job related first.” She added as a cheeky afterthought.

“How long will I work, both shift and contract wise?” Twin asked.

“You can quit at the end of any given month without any problems once you sign on, and you work until the jobs I have assigned you are completed, once done you can relax and enjoy yourself. If you want to head out the manor, speak to the captain and he’ll give you a tracker.” Twin looked confused at the last part.

“A tracker? Why do I need a tracker?” Twin asked.

“To make sure you’re safe for one, and to make sure another lamia doesn’t snatch up my staff… again,” Ruby growled softly “We tend to be…” Ruby looped a coil around Twin’s back pulling him close, her nose touching his “Grabby.” Ruby finished with a smile and Twin chuckled nervously as his vision was entirely purple now, before Ruby let go of him “Anything else you need to know?”

Twin shuffled awkwardly “Pay is sixteen full bits an hour.” Ruby said without needing the question.

“Oh, thanks…” Twin hesitated “You also said you would ‘educate’ me on lamia culture?” He asked and Ruby grinned.

“Let’s give you a day to settle into the routine, then I’ll show you the wonders of lamias, okay, Twinwing?” Twin nodded happily “Alright, go see Alex about your contract.” Twin nodded and left the room, heading back downstairs.

As Twin was passing the staffroom, the mare from earlier was stood in the doorway, waiting “Hold up,” She said quietly, with an urgent look upstairs “Are you going to sign on?” Twin nodded, uncertain if he liked her fearful tone “Don’t. Just leave, get out and don’t look back whilst you still can. That… ‘mare’ she’s a monster, more like a demon really! All the other staff are in her coils and you will be too if you stay, so get out now! If you sign on she’ll-” The mare suddenly stopped speaking, clutching her throat as a red aura floated around her neck.

“A demon, huh,” Ruby said softly, slithering down the hallway, her horn aglow with magic, the mare whimpered trying to shuffle inside the staff room but Ruby tugged her forward into a coil that grabbed her by the waist “Don’t worry about it, Twinwing… she just thought you might be taking her position since her work has been lacklustre.” The mare wriggled and struggled, trying to break free “She tends to my room,” Ruby explained and the mare shook her head frantically “I’ll see her contract is… terminated.” The mare’s eyes widened and she gave a little choked sob, shaking her head more desperately “Be still, hummingbird.” Ruby said and the mare froze, Twin noticing for a split second the eye on her neck glowing “Follow me and we’ll sort out your punishment, come on.” Ruby gave the mare a pull and she followed along obediently, with a sad whimper.

“Hay, you can always find another job.” Twin said smiling at her. She didn’t look back but Twin swore he heard her sob.

Twin continued on his way down to Alex’s office, knocking lightly on the door “Come in,” Alex droned softly after a short pause and Twin opened the door, finding Alex sat atop a pudgy pile of coils forming a chair, Twin piecing it together than he was sat atop the same kind of coils his bed was made from “Ah, you’re back, I have a uniform for you,” Alex said motioning to his desk which had a neatly folded pile of clothing that perfectly matched Bolt’s and the other male staff “And the contract.” Alex said pushing a few sheets of paper forward with a pen sat atop “You will begin tomorrow, so today would be a good time to familiarise yourself with the place.” Alex said as Twin walked up to the desk pulling it forward to read.

Twin skimmed over the words, written to the minimum size legally allowed, only a few words being taken in, nothing specific “Alright,” Twin signed his name on a designated dotted line, below a line that said ‘Employees agree to all the following terms and conditions without question and will obey their new employer fully, including personal titles, such as goddess, mistress/master, etc.’ Twin hesitated looking at the end but Alex pulled it away quickly “Do I need to call Ruby Mistress?” Twin asked and Alex signed his name slowly and carefully.

“No, you’ll understand when you can call her that.” Alex said cryptically.

“Understand?” Twin asked baffled but Alex didn’t answer, instead he pushed the uniform forward.

“Try it on and familiarise yourself with wherever Mistress has specified you need to work, then go to bed. See me if you have any problems. Food is served in the staff room at seven, twelve, six and desserts at nine if Bolt has anything that’s about to go out of date.” Alex said waving to the door as he clicked on his computer screen and slowly leaned back, zoning out.

Twin decided he’d been asked out and didn’t want to set a bad first impression, so he grabbed his uniform and left hastily… missing the point when Alex’s eyes began to shift with various coloured rings…

Twin looked around the hallway, heading for his bag before turning around and heading up to his room, placing it atop his desk to unpack later. Twin set his uniform down beside it, looking over the red garment. It was a warm colour and had a wonderful snake-like pattern to it, and Twin vaguely wondered how much it must cost to get them all for the staff members working here. Twin decided to give it a try, pulling the suit on, the inner linings were soft and squishy and felt quite nice against his fur, not needing a shirt to separate it from his body, and when Twin clipped the collar on it has a perfect snugness to it, like he was having his throat playfully squeezed. Twin giggled, hopping around, this was a much better job than his last one, a sexy snake boss, a comfy uniform, that didn’t itch, and his own room and food, with decent pay to boot!

“I should sell my house.” Twinwing thought with a nod, rubbing his collar “I don’t need it here, with Ruby.”. Twin made his way out the room, heading for the staff room. It was a large square room full of plush snake coil seats and regular bean bags and sofas, a central table was piled with food and Twin sat down to snack away, very few of the skeleton crew staff taking notice of him.

Once full and stuffed, Twin headed back to his room, undressing and flopping onto his bed, gleefully rolling around to get a feel, noticing a stray coil getting snagged and looping over him “Oh no, I’m being coiled up!” Twin cried out softly to himself rolling over and over until he had sunk under the coils, wriggling around to get his head free from the intense heat he was producing under the ‘covers’ as he laughed merrily.

This place was great!

Ruby beckoned with her tail, opening her mouth, as her maid stared down into the red fleshy maw “Get inside, you know you deserve it.” Ruby cooed as the mare stepped forward obediently, now fully aware of her mistake and she agreed heartedly with Ruby that she ought to be put in ‘prison’.

The acceptance gate was oddly damp, probably suffering from leaks no doubt, as well as cramped, the mare had to crawl through to get inside, quickly sliding down towards her cell once she got going. She hummed, it wasn’t so bad, a tiny space but it was a snug size really, and the bed was beyond the comfort level she had expected. It was already lights out though… time to… sleep…

“Now, enjoy your little prison sentence.” Ruby said to her ‘former’ maid as she rubbed her tail, a soft gurgle and moan could just barely be heard, the mare would no doubt be terrified once she awoke from trance and survival instincts would make her struggle, even if it was beyond pointless now, but Ruby’s body had ways of coaxing a pony into submission on its own. Ruby licked her lips leaning back into her bed “I hope you were a good trade Twinwing, and not a disappointment like this one, staff recruitment has been rather dry lately… I do so enjoy Pegasi and I want to feel your wings in my coils real soon.” Ruby mumbled to herself chuckling as she sighed, leaning back to relax and sleep off her meal.

Down the snake hole

In the gentle soothing quiet of the morning, Twin groaned softly, his ear folding against his head as he heard several doors open and shut unceremoniously loudly, the ponies leaving them disregarding the sleeping staff present. Shortly after that disturbance however, the sound of something metal being hit forced Twin to snap his hooves to his ears, groaning louder than before. Or at least try, when he tried to cover his ears his hooves couldn’t swing around due to the coils, Twin had to wriggle free and by the time he’d gotten free he was mostly awake and the sound had stopped, replaced instead by other doors opening and loud shuffling. Twin sighed, pushing himself up and grabbing his uniform, walking out into the hallway, full of the other staff members. Twin found the end of the line and looked over his new co-workers.

Twin began to notice large gaps in the crowd and they shuffled in a bizarre chaotic order towards any available bathroom when the occupant finally left, and many of the bedroom doors Twin was going past as he waited were labelled ‘unoccupied’. Twin estimated at least more than half were labelled as such, Ruby must have lost a lot of staff recently at this ‘dinner’. Twin tapped his hoof waiting, despite the less than full staff list, the time it took some to shower was ridiculous and Twin debated whether he should have stayed in bed a little bit longer. Then again, if he’d woken up when he should have he wouldn’t be in this mess. Either way, the tiny crowd finally dissipated and Twin stepped into one of the bathrooms, quickly jumping into the already warm water, one benefit at least to going after the others. As Twin soaked his body he paused, staring at the two hanging bottles, both were labelled shampoo with various brandings plastered on the side, one a simple summer sky blue, the other purple, making Twin think of the greenhouse trees for some reason. The truly odd thing however was that the purple bottle was written over in black marker with the word ‘pets’ over it. It was noticeably lower in quantity than the other, so it must be popular… it couldn’t hurt to try, right?

Twin took the cap off, sniffing and the smell alone was enough to confirm that this was a perfectly okay idea to Twin! It was so sweet, yet also savoury like a fruity salad topped with honey and slices of cake on the side. Twin smiled as he poured some out and experienced a very strange sensation, where the thick gloopy gel landed and settled on his hoof there was a tingling sensation as if he was going numb because his brain couldn’t handle all the relaxing sensations he was being presented with. His leg quivering slightly in delight, Twin bit his lip with a quiet sigh. It felt as if his muscles were melting into this stuff.

“Lamias are great,” Twin mumbled, deciding that he wouldn’t use any other gel for washing now he’d tried this. This thought was enforced as Twin began to rub the gel into his mane turning into purple coloured frothy bubbles. As Twin rubbed the shampoo in it felt as if thousands of tiny snakes were slithering over his muscles and nerves, squeezing him tight enough to go lightheaded and fuzzy, but with enough slack he could feel them rub all around his brain. Twin’s mouth dropped open and he let out a gargled moan, before coughing on the water filling his mouth “Okay… muh-maybe don’t face the shower when putting this on…” Twin mumbled to himself turning around and spreading the gel over his wings, which flung open before he’d even touched them, as if his body was openly saying how welcome the sensations were.

Twin was soon covered in the soapy bubbles, head hanging low as if bearing a heavy weight, his mouth vaguely open as he tried his best not to drool. Unable to back up properly, Twin merely sat down under the water and hummed cheerfully as the bubbles were washed away, slithering down his body with the water. Twin poked a hoof to his chest, feeling a slight tingling sensitivity wherever he touched, it was delightful. However, Twin was soon clean of suds and as much as he wanted to make use of the gel a second time, he had work to do and upsetting Ruby might get him fired from the gel- her employment.

Twin stood up and turned the water dial off, stepping out onto the already damp bath mat, drying himself quickly before dressing in his uniform. As Twin put the suit top on he bit his lip, feeling the fabric rubbing over his body, shifting back and forth to enjoy the sensation of movement caressing him. The collar was even better, it hadn’t changed but it suddenly felt tighter. Twin wasn’t sure why this change was so thrilling, but he didn’t care, instead he placed a hoof to his neck and pushed in, gulping against his own frog whilst smiling.

Reality, once again, had to tap Twin’s shoulder to get him moving and he trotted with a cheerful pace out the bathroom and into Ruby’s “Looks like the new guy enjoyed the dripleaf.” One mare commented smiling to her friend as Twin passed them by.

Once inside the bathroom, Twin wasted no time turning the hot tap all the way around. It felt like he was trying to turn a gate wheel due to its size and the amount of water that gushed out was befitting that as well. It was a very brief wait until the bath was pooling up with hot water, steaming up the room. Twin began turning the tap back early, so he didn’t flood the floor, then headed over to Ruby’s personal shampoo and oil selection. Twin took a couple down at random, reading the labels, ‘lotus’ and ‘strawberry’ were normal alongside most of the other shampoos. Twin soon noticed the oils however, which were less of your typical variety. They included things such as ‘a soft hug’ scale soothing oil ‘slither ease’ for mobile lamias… and ‘ensnaring fragrance’ which was a big bottle with a picture of a snake, its body letting off little love hearts and air bubbles that popped into tiny swirls. Despite being written in the universe’s tiniest font, Twin instantly noticed the marking for dripleaf. This seemed good, and lotus was a nice exotic flower that would go with it perfectly. Twin set the selection by the edge of the bath before making his way back out of the rom, heading up the spiral ramp to Ruby’s room.

Twin lightly knocked on the door, but there was no response, after waiting a moment, Twin pushed the door open slowly and as quietly as he could, peeking his head in. The fire had burnt out, leaving only a tiny smoke trail floating up the chimney with a few red glowing embers remaining. This left the room dim and dark and Twin could only make out the mound of coils that was his employer atop the bed, a coil occasionally shifting causing the bed to creak and the massive sheets to rustle.

Twin squeezed in through the door and closed it behind him softly, not wanting the light to disturb Ruby as he slowly crept forward. Twin glanced up towards the head of the bed, roughly making out Ruby’s form laying on her belly using her own tail as a pillow, her chest and tail rising and falling with her breathing. Twin gulped and opened his wings, floating up just above the great serpent’s tail and landing amongst the piles of coils. As instructed, Twin knelt down and grabbed a coil, feeling the muscles and fat slip around his legs, moulding to him slightly as gravity pulled downward, struggling with the weight now Ruby wasn’t aiding him in the task. Twin grunted then let out a sharp gasp, freezing as Ruby rolled over with a groan, the coil Twin was holding slithering over him slightly, rubbing his legs before falling still again. Twin was meant to be waking her up but something told Twin he wanted to do it the way she had specified to him the previous night, logic told him this was because he didn’t want to be standing beside a sleepy, and possibly grumpy, snake that would no doubt be angry at him for such an awakening.

Twin gulped as Ruby settled down again and pulled the coil up with a heave, managing to lift it over his right shoulder where it landed atop him, slapping against his body with a heavy thud of scales, muscles and fat, causing Twin to pitch downward with an involuntary gasp as his lungs emptied from the collision. As Twin recovered, the coil slipped and slid around, grabbing Twin’s body and hugging him tightly, pressing into his neck. Twin looked around, hearing soft rustling, the coils all seemed to be curving towards the source of heat, moving away from the side previously facing the fire towards where Twin had settled. Twin stood up, taking a step back and he felt his hoof sink into coily fat which tried to loop around him quickly, however Ruby’s grace wasn’t carried over in her sleep and Twin was able to move forward out of grabbing range.

“What am I doing… I… have to let her coil me up… but I don’t want to get crushed!” Twin thought glancing around at the mass of scales approaching him from every side, some rolling over other coils forming barriers making the bed shift and sag as well, only making it more difficult to avoid the mass of scales.

Twin moved sideways before grabbing another coil, which tried to loop around his legs before he wrapped it over his back, his wings opening up to let the coil trail over them and help support the weight, the coil slithered slowly, as if exploring, curling around Twin’s wings. Twin stood upright, stock still, as his feathers were ruffled and shivered all over. Pegasi, much like Unicorns with their horns, had sensitive wing tips. Twin tried to grab the coil but couldn’t reach it, the one over his shoulder preventing him from curling his leg around far enough, so he tried pushing the coil going over him aside to get some room. This proved to be a mistake as the coil instead tightened around Twin when he pushed against it, alongside the wing coil and Twin staggered, trying to keep his mouth shut from the sensation of scales on his feathers. His stumbling led him to the encircling coils, which had finally closed the distance and he tripped, falling forward atop them. Struggling to move his legs, Twin pushed up, trying to stand but the coils seemed to be speeding up and the coils already around Twin weighed him down. Twin got halfway back up before falling, a coil sliding over his head pushing it down so he had a face full of squishy red and white scales. Twin’s front hooves slipped between two coils, which tightened when presented with the encased warmth. Twin was beginning to panic now, as he was unable to get up, more coils slipped over his rear legs and his head waving about only stimulated Ruby’s predatory instincts in her sleep, the lamia humming, dreaming, totally unaware of her butler’s perilous situation that she was causing.

Twin finally snapped into a blind panic, disregarding why he had begun so carefully before, calling out to the massive serpent “Ruby!” Even with his face full of coils the sound was decently loud in the dead silent room.

Twin felt the coils halt in their progress and heard a single slithering movement to his left. Twin was able to turn his head to look and could see Ruby sitting up, rubbing her eyes before looking down at Twin as he shuffled under her coils.

“This isn’t quite how I wanted you to wake me when I asked you to warm my coils,” Ruby said softly leaning into her pillows and yawning. Twin gulped, feeling his neck press into the coils, concerned he’d upset Ruby “Although, I suppose this was your first time. Next time, Twinwing, simply lay on your back and let my coils do as they please, they won’t hurt you if you don’t struggle,” Ruby rubbed Twin’s cheek with a coil “That includes shaking your head.” She added with a squeeze.

“Sorry, Ruby.” Twin said as he tried to push out of his current position, only to have a coil loop over his neck and tug him back down forcefully, the coils pressing down to render him immobile again.

“It’s quite alright, it just means you’ll warm me like this today. Now, hold still… just five more… degrees…” Ruby cooed with a grin.

Twin shuffled, getting as comfortable as he could whilst smothered in coils, feeling Ruby slither her tail back and forth over his body. Was she using friction to get more warmth or trying to lull him into relaxing and falling still, maybe both… because Twin could feel his body heating up and yet he couldn’t help but slump down into the coils, trying to let them rub as much of his body as they could manage. Twin felt his eyes droop, resting his head on a coil, this was peaceful… perfect, he could just lay here and forget about the world… his worries… his responsibilities…

Twin snapped up “R-Ruby, your bath will be getting cold!” Twin said looking at the lamia as she opened her eyes again, sighing.

“Yes, I suppose so, and it would be a waste of bits to fill it again… very well, Twinwing, I’m getting up.” Ruby said lifting Twin up into the air and uncoiling him, leaving him flailing in the air until his wings took over, pitching left and right until he landed unsteadily “Real ace flying.” She commented and Twin flushed, heading for the door with a pout as Ruby chuckled.

Twin led Ruby downstairs, the lamia yawning a couple times as she slithered along, eyeing up her latest plaything between each one as they made their way past a few staff members already cleaning the hallways. Did they do this daily? Ruby must like her place very clean, no wonder she wanted new staff, even untrained like Twin.

“She does have a high reputation to keep up, she works for the lamia Queen after all she has to set a good example to visitors and her peers!” Twin thought, glancing back at a mare polishing a hoof rail, a dull smile on her face as her eyes seemed to glow as she worked.

Twin bumped into the bathroom door before he could look properly and backed up, shaking his head slightly before pushing the door open with his hoof, as opposed to his face. The room had filled with a heavy cloud of steam and water was dripping down the tiled walls now into various drains dotting the floor, furthering the illusion of a pool over a bath. Ruby slid past Twin up to the water’s edge and very simply slid out over the edge, her pony body floating, just brushing the surface causing a small wave that sent ripples to the edges before Ruby slid down, her tail swishing over the tiles into the water with hardly a sound. Twin watched, fascinated, as Ruby quickly raised the water level to the point it began to overflow, Twin hadn’t appreciated how large Ruby was, or how thick her coils became at certain points, growing thicker than his body and still going. The water was alive with twisting white and red, distorted by the water waving about from the small disturbance of Ruby entering her bath. Finally, Ruby’s tail tip slid in and the room was nearly silent, save for Twin’s breathing and Ruby shuffling above the water. Ruby lowered herself down to her neck, shifting her coils, and Twin heard a series of subdued shuffling under the water, scales on ceramic tiles, which sounded like the ground was being moved beneath him, yet it was oddly calming to listen to.

Ruby settled herself atop her coils, floating on the surface, warming herself with her eyes closed enjoying the sensation of heat flooding her body “Uh, Ruby?” Twin called and she opened her eyes, looking over as Ruby bobbed slightly.

“Yes, Twinwing?” She asked smiling.

“I can’t reach you from here, could you… come over to the edge of the bath?” Twin requested, awkwardly stood by the oil and shampoo waiting.

Ruby smiled, but it faded as what Ruby desired didn’t seem to ping for Twin, or maybe it did and he was just too nervous. She was going incredible fast right now for him, so she decided to let Twin have this one “Alright, one moment.” Ruby said standing up and spinning around, her tail starting to roll over behind her as she did so, Twin glancing up as he heard several splashes proceeding this movement.

Ruby had raised her tail, swinging her coils through the air in various arcs, each one unique, be it just a subtle angle or the size of the coils it didn’t matter, each one was its own little wonder. Twin stared, watching water droplets drip down into the water, splattering down like rain, Ruby’s coils sparkling and reflecting a clean sheen of colours over the length of her tail. Ruby let her tail slip back into the water, splattering the edges of the bath again as she glided over to Twin with only a single deft push of her tail. Ruby stopped and settled several coils against the edge of the pool, making it appear shallow if you took Ruby’s tail to be the new ‘base’ of the pool. Ruby settled by the edge sitting low in the water as she sighed happily.

Twin sat down by the edge of the pool, leaning over as he grabbed the shampoo bottle first uncapping it and letting the smell of lotus fill the room steadily “Mmmm, so you like lotus, Twinwing?” Ruby asked as Twin began to massage the gel into Ruby’s mane, the lamia sitting up so he could, embarrassingly, rub the soap over her body.

“Er… I guess, it smells nice, sure…” Twin said with a deep flush.

“Why didn’t you pick what you liked best?” Ruby asked.

“I… didn’t really look at all the shampoo options,” Twin gulped as his voice dropped “I focused on one of the oils in particular and just grabbed what looked good as a shampoo between the first ones I grabbed.” Twin admitted.

“And what was the oil you chose?” Twin shuffled where he sat on the tiled pool edge.

“Ensnaring fragrance.” Twin said, picking up the bottle and showing Ruby “I enjoyed the dripleaf shampoo this morning.” Twin admitted with a smile, which Ruby noticed smirking as she glanced back at him, as well as the slightly glassy, memory distant, gaze in his eyes “What?” Twin asked as his gaze refocused.

“Oh, nothing. It’s just that most of my new workers never use dripleaf, at least not for a while, not until they have grown accustomed to me and my… tendencies.” Ruby said whilst staring at Twin with a small, devious, smirk, confusing Twin.

“What kind of tendencies?” Twin asked, daftly.

Ruby chuckled “Well, I get accusations that I’m a little… grabby,” Ruby cooed as her coils slithered up the edges of the pool, curling their damp warm scales around Twin’s hind legs and rubbing them “But, honestly, I just like having ponies to snuggle up with, you’re all so cute and fluffy and just so… squeezable!” Ruby tilted her head back, reaching up with her hooves, caressing Twin’s face “You don’t mind though, do you, Twinwing?” Ruby asked as the stallion halted his work on Ruby, staring into those pools of purple and black.

“No.” Twin said, hardly able to believe his mouth had just moved to admit that without his own brain’s permission.

“Is that so? It wouldn’t bother you if I looped several thick, heavy, strong coils around your body squeezing tighter and tighter until you’re wheezing for breath, barely able to wriggle in my grip as I hold you, suspended in mid-air, before me?” Ruby asked before giggling at Twin’s nervous face “Don’t look so frightened, I wouldn’t hurt you,” Ruby then mumbled to herself “But you would love it anyway.”

Twin failed to properly hear what Ruby said and couldn’t question her as she suddenly let her pony body slip down and fall under the water, her mane spreading out and Twin felt Ruby’s name was very befitting. The suds dissipated and broke away and the light of the bathroom beamed down on Ruby perfectly, her mane flying around her, phantom-like, floating and almost glowing, reflecting perfectly like a freshly polished gemstone.

Ruby sat back up out of the water, droplets running down her body back into the mass of water, her mane falling down and clinging to her body as it too dripped rapidly, partially covering her face with damp hair, yet Twin found this look to be just as graceful and beautiful as Ruby with her mane done up. Ruby smiled at Twin as she pushed her mane back to see fully.

“The oil, Twinwing.” Ruby said giving him a casual push with her tail so he turned over, grabbing the bottle and settling down by the pool edge again.

“So, how does this work, do you need to climb out or...?” Twin asked awkwardly holding the bottle, unsure how to proceed.

In response, Ruby lifted a coil, as thick as Twin’s body, and laid it on the floor in front of him “I’ll lift my coils out of the bath as you oil them up for me. Simply put some of the oil on my coils, you don’t need much it goes a long way, and rub it in on top and under,” Ruby grinned “You can sit on my coils if you desire to at any point. Just pull the coil along when you are done with it and I’ll slide it along so you can do another section.” Ruby ordered and Twin nodded, shuffling closer to the dripping coil and kneeling before it, opening the bottle.

Twin sighed, breathing in that soothing, sweet and savoury scented aroma, grinning foolishly as he simply started at Ruby’s coils, which were rolling slowly back and forth causing a rainbow of colour to flow along the scales like a river, Twin’s brain slowly churning over what he had to do next as he stared in awe. Ruby cleared her throat and chuckled as Twin snapped back to reality, sitting up straighter and turning the bottle over, pouring a little onto Ruby’s offered coil. Twin’s hooves shook slightly before he placed them down atop the meaty tube, into the little splatter of oil. Twin’s spine tingled and his whole body shivered in delight as he flushed, rubbing around Ruby’s coils, pushing in, the coils easily giving way to even the smallest of pushes, as if Twin was massaging tubes filled with semi-solid water. Ruby sighed happily and laid back, relaxing, as Twin worked along Ruby’s tail, feeling his hooves grow numb… and yet sensitive, feeling every individual scale slip underneath him and along his frogs as he rubbed Ruby down gently. When Twin reached Ruby’s underbelly he found it was incredibly soft, the top scales had a texture that was much tougher indicating strength but, despite being used to slither upon, Ruby’s underbelly was incredibly smooth, with much fewer scales making it up, it felt wonderful to rub his hooves against it.

Twin shuffled, glancing at Ruby who seemed to sense his desire and laughed quietly to herself, before nudging his stationery hooves with her tail, which spurred Twin to continue. Despite the growing want for Twin to leap at the mound of scales and coils, he resisted, focusing instead on rubbing circles along and down Ruby’s tail, getting further and further, with thicker and thicker coils forcing Twin to stand just to tend to both sides. Finally, Ruby climbed out, dragging the rest of her tail with her, which she concentrated into a ball around her oiled coils and rubbed them together, slipping and sliding them through and against one another. Twin watched, his hooves still hovering in the air, watching one of the segments of tail he’d oiled up within the centre, watching other parts of Ruby’s tail flash and slide over it, gripping and squeezing it. Twin gulped as he tried to avoid sinking into the growing fantasy of him being that coil…

“Not bad for your first day, Twinwing, well done. Now, I have some paperwork that I must tend to myself regarding my recent work, you can see to my bedroom now, I will be in the living room when you finish.” Twin nodded as he made his way towards the door “Oh, and Twinwing,” Twin stopped looking back at Ruby as she held out a coil towards him “You are more than welcome to them… anytime, I can show you just how dexterous a lamia can be.” Twin smiled and flushed, bowing his head a little in embarrassment.

“I er… thank you, Ruby.” He said and Ruby nodded and Twin left.

Ruby sighed with a grin “Now… I think there’s time for food and maybe a little play with Bolt before I have to get stuck into my own work!” Ruby thought out loud with a wide grin.

Twin made his way quickly back up to Ruby’s room, opening the door without as much caution as before when he was sneaking in to wake Ruby. Closing it behind him, Twin glanced around the dim room before locating the curtained window, jumping upon the bed to reach it and pulling it open to bathe the room in bright sunlight. The window seemed to perfectly catch every ray and direct it upon Ruby’s bed, Twin could already feel the heat on the back of his neck. With a shrug, Twin set to work pulling the bed lining back into place, straightening the duvet and sitting the pillows up, puffing them back up into a normal shape after Ruby had squished them or hugged them tightly. Twin briefly checked for any clothing dotted around but found nothing knocked under the bed or under the slither-in wardrobe’s sliding door. With that fact confirmed, Twin briefly left to head down the two ramps, towards the greenhouse side and down into the laundry room. Much like any basement, it had a low stone ceiling and the air was thick with moisture from the machines and the air was stale from poor circulation since it had no windows and the door was always closed. Twin checked around, a few rows of washers and driers lining one wall, another holding a bunch of dusters and spray polish. Twin smiled, grabbing a set alongside a black bin bag and searched around until he found a dustpan and brush before heading back up, passing the living room as Bolt was heading towards the room, a tray of food stretched over his back.

“Oh, the new member, hello,” Bolt said with an odd dull tone.

“Oh, hay Bolt, you alright?” Twin asked noticing Bolt’s tone.

“Yes, I’m great, I’m just taking a meal Bolt made to Goddess.” Bolt said.

“Er… okay…?” Why was he speaking in third person? And was he talking about Ruby as his ‘Goddess’ now, not his Mistress?

“Hmmm… oh, you don’t know…? Well, you’ll find out, Goddess seems to have an interest in you. Then again, she likes all Pegasi… anyway, I best get in before the food goes cold, you should get back to work as well… Twinwing, right?” Bolt said with a little, lazy wave before ducking inside.

“Boy,” Twin mumbled continuing on back towards Ruby’s room “That was weird.”

Once back in the bedroom, Twin set to work brushing the dust from the bedside table, the head board, window sill, wardrobe shelves and the fireplace top. When the room had a nice sheen, just like Ruby’s beautiful coils, Twin set to work emptying the fireplace of burnt out logs and ash into the bin bag, once done Twin gave the brick wall a polish to get the soot and black markings off, revealing the ruby red bricks behind it all. When it was sparkling clean, Twin grabbed several logs and scraps of paper, throwing them in and lighting the fire. As Twin when to sit up, he noticed one of the old clippings, the headline had already burnt and Twin couldn’t get close enough to read the text, but it was a picture of Ruby alongside another lamia mare, this one a wonderful blue and golden colour. They had their coils stretched before them with several mares coiled up, six regular ponies, or so they appeared, and the two royal sisters. They all looked really happy!

Twin smiled and stood up, glad to know he was with a nice, kind and clearly popular lamia. Twin looked around the room, it was perfectly clean and crisp and ready for Ruby’s return that evening, Twin heard a soft grumbled and finally took notice of the time outside, it was a little past midday, had time gone that fast? Twin got up, heading for the staff room, inside, sure enough, there was lunch ready and waiting. The sandwich stacks had already been broken down and there was a massive pot that was entirely empty but seemed to have been something Bolt made as it was clearly a pudding of some sort with some still warm custard in a pitcher beside it, along with about nine empty ones. That, or everypony here had a weird taste for custard with sandwiches. Twin took a dozen small sandwich pieces and sat down, looking around the room, only noticing now he was almost entirely alone. In fact, he WAS alone, nopony else was present in the room, it was deserted. Twin shrugged, guess he had been late, sure seemed that way, but as he had no direct boss, seeing as Alex seemed to work more towards paperwork than room cleaning, to give additional jobs, Twin was able to allocate his own breaks. Or so it seemed anyway.

With a contently full belly, Twin looked around the room, but none of the games spoke to him, some looked rather interesting, like a visor settled on a bundle of coils that seemed to be glowing but Twin didn’t feel like giving them a try right now. Instead, Twin followed Ruby’s instructions if he ran out of work to do in her bedroom and made his way down to the living room. Twin pushed the door open, forgetting that he ought to knock like Ruby’s bedroom if he suspected she was inside the room, which he should have since she had specified she would be there earlier! Ruby was sat with her coils piled up at a thirty-degree angle in front of her, laying upon them was Bolt, who was bound by several thick loops of snake muscle over his entire body, only his head, cushioned between the backrest of coils, was visible, watching Ruby with a content open mouth smile. Ruby looked up quickly and Bolt moaned softly, pushing up against the coils to get closer to Ruby who pushed him down by shoving a thick coil into his face making him cry out, the sound comically muffled.

“Twinwing!” Ruby said with a slightly frightened and surprised squeak and Twin heard a heavy dragging on the floor and a little groan from Bolt who, when he was allowed to sat up, was rubbing his head blinking sleepily, as if he had been dazed or hit suddenly, which Twin understood he had been when Ruby slapped him with those massive coils “You should have knocked!” Ruby scolded, composing herself.

“Sorry, I thought you would have left… I’m here to clean the living room… I can-” Ruby shook her head before Twin could finish the suggestion.

“No, no, it’s fine, come in, Twinwing… please.” Ruby said beckoning him forward with her tail and Twin only realised he’d stepped forward when the door slammed shut behind him. He’d moved?

“I didn’t mean to interrupt.” Twin said weakly stepping forward towards Ruby, a bit closer than most would in his shoes.

Ruby sat up slithering up to Twin who quivered under her gaze, Ruby tilted his head up with her tail tip “Think nothing of it.” Ruby said, her voice soft and yet echoing in Twin’s ears, reverberating with power.

“Think nothing of it…” Twin droned then smiled, Ruby wasn’t mad that he’d barged in, he’d just have to make a note not to do it again “I’ll get to work.” Twin said simply, walking towards the shelves with the duster he’d brought with him.

“Ah, might I ask a request of you, Twinwing?” Ruby asked politely, Twin looking back as she shuffled Bolt around in her coils, the stallion, previously standing over Twin, now looked so small and helpless in Ruby’s coils “Would you mind if I wrapped you up?” Ruby asked with a sweet smile.

“But… how would I clean?” Twin asked with a glance towards Bolt again, who Ruby gave a little affection squeeze when she noticed the little flicker from Twin’s eyes, Bolt’s muffled moan making Twin shuffle where he stood, biting his lip.

“I wouldn’t coil up your front legs, silly, just the rest of you. And with that uniform on you can’t really fly and reach the top shelves, can you?” Twin shook his head “No, so go on… let me wrap you up. You can’t say you didn’t enjoy it this morning, I promise it’ll feel so much better, I’m awake now and I can coil you up much more gracefully.” Ruby said holding out a coil the width of Twin’s head, Ruby dragging more coils forward, flipping them over onto their smooth red belly scales. Twin watched the light of the room flicker and dance along the canvas white of Ruby’s tail, which seemed to absorb and reflect every flicker of colour just… perfectly…

“Okay, I guess it won’t hurt.” Twin said walking forward a little closer so the coil was hovering a few inches from his face.

“Delightful, thank you so much for trusting me Twin, you won’t regret it.” Ruby said with a devilish grin.

Twin watched Ruby lift her coils, circling him in a hoovering fence of scales, trapping him in like penned in cattle. Twin glanced around a little nervously before a coil slipped around his neck, the cool appendage a soothing contrast to Twin’s hot neck. Twin moaned, smiling as Ruby rubbed and pinched Twin’s neck, making him dip his head forward to give her a better reach of his neck to pamper him. Ruby looped the coil around the front of Twin’s chest, lifting him up, two coils hooping under Twin’s front legs holding them up as if Twin was hanging onto a life preserver, Ruby’s ‘fence’ of coils closing in quickly looping around Twin’s body, corkscrewing down to his flank and down his legs, two separate coils tending to each one. Ruby tensed her coils, getting a firm grip on Twin as she let him stand on the tips of his hind legs, but almost all of his weight was being supported by the coils so Twin didn’t feel any awkward balance in this position.

“How’s that?” Ruby asked tightening the coil around Twin’s neck.

“Gulk! …Good.” Twin admitted as Bolt nodded in agreement, Ruby extending her squeezing to him as well, though it was clear to Twin, Ruby was being a lot harsher with her constriction on Bolt. Twin bit his lip, shifting where he stood as much as Ruby permitted “Ruby?” The lamia glanced from her head chef to Twin “Can you… squeeze me like Bolt?” Twin asked.

Ruby raised an eyebrow “Are you sure, Bolt has had much more time to adjust to more intense ‘hugs’ from my coils.” Ruby said as she tightened further with the red stallion as if to demonstrate, Bolt’s breathing halting entirely as his head slumped backward in a silent open mouth smile, a line of drool running down from the edge of his mouth, before Ruby relaxed and he was allowed to chokingly suck down some air.

Twin flushed, staring at Bolt’s blue tinged face, but also how delighted he looked, prodding Ruby’s coils to make her squeeze again, or tapping them to stop. Twin decided Ruby was right, he wasn’t ready for that level of intensity “Yeah, okay, you’re right… b-but can you still squeeze a little tighter?” Ruby smiled and began tightening.

“Just tell me when and I’ll use that as the limiter.” Ruby said and Twin nodded.

Ruby relaxed her coils, shifting and rolling them up Twin’s body, tilting his head upward as Ruby began to close in. Ruby didn’t pause continuing to push inward, the fat being subdued by the tension and muscles pushing through the giant tubes of scales, pushing into Twin’s body, pushing his chest and bones inward, preventing his lungs from filling fully. Twin began to take short, rapid and raspy breaths as his lungs shrank in size even further. Twin was panting at least a couple times a second, his heart fluttering and survival instincts screaming at him when he finally tapped out.

“Enough! Good, please!” He begged with a slight croak, the rising fear telling him Ruby would ignore his pleas.

But Twin’s untrusting mind was proven wrong as Ruby relaxed her grip, letting Twin slump and pant, coughing slightly “Okay, thank you.” Ruby said with a grin.

“Wait, I think I went too far!” Twin pleaded.

Ruby smiled “That’s your own fault, no changes now!” Ruby purred and Twin flushed “Don’t worry, you’ll like it, once you get use to it happening your fear will dissipate, you don’t see Bolt worrying when he can’t even get a wisp down!” Bolt managed a little nod with rolled up eyes, Ruby slid closer “And with practise you can have it just as tight.” She whispered “Now, get to dusting!” Ruby ordered lifting Twin up and turning him towards the shelves.

Twin raised his duster, running it along the top of the rows of books, many seemed magical, with various runes and star charts marking the spines, a few glowing when Twin ran the feathers of the duster over them, and one whispered to him to open it and he might have if Ruby wasn’t holding him back. Twin also cleaned the space between the books and the edge of the shelves. When one row was done Twin glanced back at Ruby, who was focusing on Bolt in his own mound of coils “Ruby can I-uck!” Ruby tightened her coil around Twin’s neck, silencing him.

“You do not speak when working in my coils Twin, if you want me to move you, stroke my coils and I will give you a new patch of dust to clean away, understand?” Twin nodded and reached up, running a hoof along Ruby’s tail gently, feeling it dip down as he stroked, curving so Twin covered more scales.

Ruby shifted her focus back to Twin and lifted him up off the ground, dangling in the air, presenting him with more dust lined books “There, see, so much easier, right Twinwing?” Ruby asked and Twin opened his mouth to speak, the coils closing in a little before he nodded “Smart colt.” Ruby cooed watching Twin return to work.

Ruby grinned, feeling the push of Twin’s chest expanding and contracting as he breathed, pushing into and against her coils. Ruby began to tense her grip, halting Twin’s chest from expanding properly as it was blocked by the wall of scales. Twin gulped, breathing out and trying to quickly breathe back in, even as he felt the coils close the space just a tiny bit, the little rubbing down the sides of his body indicating that Ruby was shifting her coils closer around him. Twin glanced down, watching the coils slide and shift threateningly as he dusted, unsure where he had and hadn’t done yet. It was getting difficult to focus over the rising panic.

Ruby cooed softly “Easy Twin, you’re not in any danger, relax… just relax,” Ruby rubbed her tail back and forth under Twin’s neck gently, pushing the coil over Twin’s chest a bit further in so he signed, expelling all the air he tried to hold in, the other coils catching up instead of the first loosening.

“R-Ruby, please, not too tight.” Twin pleaded, halting in his dusting to beg.

Ruby chuckled “No negotiating, just relax, I know your limits, perhaps better than even you do!” Ruby said as her tail continued to constrict.

Twin was already starting to wheeze softly as his lungs cried out for more air than he could provide them with. Survival instincts battled with Twin as he tried to continue with his job. Finally, somewhat satisfied, Twin desperately stroked Ruby’s tail but all she did was move him along, she didn’t relax her grip even slightly. Twin place the duster on top the next row of book then gasped, Ruby tighten firmly as she approached the limit Twin set, holding firmly. Twin’s head dipped forward, resting on the bookshelf as his vision blurred, a rising numbness in his brain and body creeping up his spine as Ruby let her tail gyrate slightly, rubbing him all over, teasing his feathers under the uniform.

Twin tried to cry out for Ruby to loosen up but only a weak croak escaped his lips, a line of drool dripping down his chin as Twin’s eyes began to roll. Then, when Twin was all but certain he was going to pass out, Ruby loosened her tail a little, not all at once, forcing Twin to gasp quickly, Ruby loosening steadily so Twin didn’t cough a single time, his lungs expanding and filling at a more comfortable rate. Twin’s breathing steadied and he sighed.

“Th-thank you.” He managed as Ruby stroked his mane as her tail gave a grumble.

“Oh, sorry boys, but the belly calls. Bolt would you get a prey ready for me in my room,” Ruby let go of Twin, catching him by his neck so he hung by a coil noose, kicking and flailing as he gasped air down around the thick ‘rope’. The coil was too thick to act as an actual noose but it did push into Twin’s throat with every breath before Ruby set Twin down on the floor “Twinwing when you are done, polish the railings on the stairs until you need to go to bed.” She must mean the ramps.

Twin nodded “Of course.” He said breathing freely.

“Next time, know you limits, okay?” Twin nodded as Ruby giggled “I look forward to the next ‘wrap up’ with you. Bolt, my prey?” Bolt snapped back to reality, jumping up and nodding as he galloped out, suddenly looking nervous at delaying.

Ruby slithered out after Bolt, humming contently and Twin returned to his work, finishing the lower shelves which took roughly fifteen minutes. Once done, Twin left the room and noticed just the back of Bolt entering the kitchen, he must have delivered Ruby’s meal. Twin vaguely wondered what ‘prey’ could be, a selection of meat? Ruby was part snake after all. Twin shrugged, sure it was just some lamia meal with the name acting as a pun… or maybe it was prey, live rabbits perhaps? They seemed suitable.

Twin contemplated this thought with “I wonder if Ruby can unhinge her jaw… what would the rabbit look like going down?” Twin wouldn’t get a chance to explore his imagination for a solution however as he had reached Ruby’s doorway. Best to start at the top and work down then.

Twin settled down on the ramp beside the railing, taking out a cloth and clearing away the hoof marks covering it, as well as various streaks where Ruby had used her tail as support as well. As Twin worked he heard noises from Ruby’s room, Ruby speaking, laughing softly and then…

“Oooohhh… Muh… Mistress!” A voice said, it was beautiful and smooth like silk, clearly a mare, and yet she sounded tired and sleepy, worn out.

“Quiet, Fleur, or you will have the whole manor listening!” Ruby scolded, her voice much clearer through the wooden barrier.

Twin flushed deeply as Ruby laughed and the voice moaned louder, Twin glanced back. Was Ruby and this mare… getting it on? Twin’s wings threatened to rip his uniform off as he heard another moan which suddenly became muffled, Ruby must have put her tail over the mare’s face so her moans from Ruby’s licking couldn’t be heard… or was she using her tail. Twin flushed deeply, his face tomato red as he stood up, he’d get in so much trouble but… a little peek… and maybe he could join in…

Twin stepped up to the door, hearing a muffled and subdued moan of delight and Twin carefully and quietly pushed the handle down, opening the door a crack. Twin felt some sort of iron weight drop into his belly. Twin wasn’t watching two mares locked in interlude, instead, Ruby was leaning back amidst a sea of white and red scales covering the top of the bed Twin had made earlier that day, her head tilted up towards the ceiling, her mouth open wider than was possible for a normal pony, her body rigid and forward, her throat, belly and the top of her tail was bulging outward with a sleek, regal like form pressing outward, the silhouette just visible but details distorted by scales and Ruby’s own body. Hanging out of Ruby’s mouth were the legs of a white mare, thin and long, with a neatly kempt light pink tail disappearing as if Ruby were devouring it like spaghetti. Twin watched, unable to look away, as Ruby gulped loudly, the mare moaning in conflicting delight at being reduced to a lamia’s snack. Twin watched as all but the tail disappeared, Ruby closing her mouth to slurp Fleur’s pink tail down after her body, the mare groaning as she slipped and slid into Ruby’s belly, her bulge pressing outward as the mare visibly struggled, her face sometimes pressing up, which Ruby kissed lightly.

“Delicious Fleur, wonderful.” Ruby cooed to the bulge which moaned in delight at being such a scrumptious snack.

Twin gulped, movement returning and he shut the door with a tiny quiet click. However, the closed door didn’t block one thing; Ruby turning to look, her tongue flickering out and recognising the scent. Twin quietly shuffled over to the railing, beads of sweat running down his head, as he returned to his work, hoping Ruby would stay inside for a while whilst Fleur made her decent.

Twin made a decision rather quickly; he had to get out of here! FAST!

Perfectly normal

Twin quickly finished the railing to a degree that it would pass, even if Ruby looked closely, and headed to the staff room. This time, he arrived amongst a bunch of others and sat down, grabbing a plate of hayburgers, but all Twin could do was stare at them, his stomach twisting and curling. Ruby had eaten that mare! Twin looked around, did she eat her staff… and then it dawned on him, dear Celestia, that mare who had tried to warn Twin of this… had she eaten her too!? She’d probably be little more than slush by now in Ruby’s belly, joining the sparkling coils as a line of fat. Twin gulped, licking his suddenly dry lips, conflicted why he still saw beauty in such a monster.

Twin looked around at his co-workers, how many had been eaten before during Ruby’s time here, did they know, did they even remember their friends passing away into coil chub? Obviously that first mare did… was this normal for them, did they just accept it or… Twin shook his head and stood up to leave, taking his plate of food with him so it, hopefully, didn’t look as suspicious for him to have grabbed some food and not touched it. Twin shut the door to his room and sat down, glancing up at the comfort promising bundle of coils settled before him, the indents from his own body clearly visible from where he’d rolled over in unknown, ignorant, delight at being wrapped up.

Twin sat upright against the door, picking at his food as time wore on, removing his uniform to free his wings, the light fading gradually as the summer sun retreated behind the horizon. Twin heard a surge of ponies walking outside his room, doors opening and closing repeatedly before, after about half an hour… silence… Twin sat up listening then tensed as another door shut and waited a full five minutes before creaking the door open a peek. The hallway was partially lit by the orange light of the sunset through the windows either side of the hallway. Twin quickly shut his door to as another pony walked to their room, shutting the door without concern for any of the other staff members. Twin poked his head, looking left and right, checking it was deserted before standing up and sneaking out, shutting the door as quietly as he could with a soft click. Twin made it to the ramp glancing up, towards where Ruby was no doubt getting comfy atop her meal, before looking down. From here Twin could literally see the door outside and had to resist sprinting for it as he crept down. Twin heard soft hooves on carpet and quickly took to the air, gliding down out of sight as Alex passed by, talking with Bolt about another load of ‘prey’.

Twin waited until the noise of the two stallions had faded then stepped up to the door. Twin’s secret service mission had taken so long the sun had fully set, the night sky taking the reigns over Equestria’s skyline. Twin glanced around, small patrols walked along the walls of the manor with lanterns and several lamias were seated in the courtyard, gambling. Twin kept close to the building, creeping along it’s edge until he reached the wall. A small gap between the manor and wall served to cast a deep, dark shadow over Twin, hiding him from the view of the watchers above. Twin gulped, looking up as several lanterns bobbed past, Twin opened his wings posing to take flight. The lantern moved out of Twin’s cone and he leapt upward, flapping his wings hard as Twin quickly gained altitude. Twin zipped past the wall, past the unaware guards and smiled, so long Ruby, have fun eating other pon-CRAP!

A sudden wail went up and Twin saw a ripple, like a bubble encompassing the whole manor from the walls. Around where Twin had left the bubble a bright, acid green colour pulsed angrily as it wailed and Twin looked down, seeing several ponies look up at him. Twin wasn’t planning to stay and turned, heading higher to escape the snakes reach. However, it wasn’t enough and one lamia grabbed the back of Twin’s leg, giving a powerful jerk, pulling him back into the range of his friends. Twin flailed, trying to get some more distance, even as several tails looped roughly over his chest, legs, neck and then his wings. Twin began to plummet back down as only one wing was left free, Twin struggling with all his worth but it was hopeless with just one lamia never mind several at once! Twin was forcefully dragged back into the bubble and more coils looped over him, covering his face as he cried out in fear, a coil slipping over his mouth silencing him.

Twin felt himself being slammed onto the manor wall, several tails slithering around him as they began to tighten all around Twin, the stallion groaning and whimpering, trying to break free and get some air. Twin felt his wings being stretched out either side of him, held down by one lamia as another ordered “Pluck him.” Twin screeched louder, thrashing left and right as his double wings were pulled out, hearing a soft swish as a blade was drawn from a sheath-

“What is going on up there!?” Twin almost felt relieved to hear Ruby’s voice. Almost.

“Mistress!” Twin felt himself being lifted up and held upright, his legs outstretched, presented to Ruby no doubt “We caught this one trying to escape from the manor, we were just going to pluck him before bringing him to you.” Twin whimpered, shaking his head desperately as he felt tears welling up in his eyes in fear.

“Uncoil him a little, before you strangle him, and let me see who it is!” Ruby ordered, her voice stern and powerful and Twin felt himself hold still, complying with her order… why was he doing that?

Twin gasped as the coils over his chest loosened, the face mask falling away, Twin still kept silent as he blinked, looking down at Ruby, hovering out over the wall as he stared down at the lamia… He could see the bulge in her tail…

“Twinwing?” Ruby said then shook her head, before waving her hoof anti-clockwise in a circle and Twin cried out in fear, had she just given the go ahead.

Instead, luckily, the lamias all loosened their grip and Twin slipped through, falling down out the bottom. Twin tried to open his wings to fly but Ruby quickly snatched him up “NO! NO PLEASE!” Twin cried before Ruby silenced him with another coil gag.

“Quiet,” Ruby said softly and Twin’s voice ceased functioning for several seconds and Twin shook his head on the verge of tears “Let us find out why you chose to flee before I punish you. Captain, I will see to this one,” Twin looked back seeing one lamia nod and wave his troops back into position.

Ruby carried Twin by her side, back into the manor, up the two ramps and into her room, where she tossed him on the bed, several coils looping over the door as Twin shuffled up against the headboard, trying to keep as far from Ruby as he could. Ruby climbed onto the bed settling down across from him “Why did you try to flee?” Ruby asked.

“I-I’m sorry I… I just…” Twin wanted to cry and plea, his voice hurt for some reason and wasn’t working right.

“Just tell me!” Ruby commanded more firmly and Twin pointed a shaky hoof to Ruby’s shifting tail bulge.

“I s-saw you e-eat her!” Twin said curling up like a foal cowering from a bully “They were going to take my wings!” Twin blubbered.

Ruby shook her head “Twinwing, did you not read the contract?” She asked with an exasperated sigh.

“How would that explain… this!” Twin shouted pointing, again, at the shuffling bulge, before Twin caught himself “I-I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to shout.” Twin said nervously.

Ruby held up a hoof to silence Twin’s apologies “It’s fine, I now understand. The problem is you failed to read through the contract thoroughly, that, and your knowledge of lamia culture is minimal.” Ruby said muttering in thought.

“Th-this is normal?” Twin asked shocked and slightly appalled anypony or anyone could consider this ‘normal’.

Ruby nodded “Perfectly normal,” She insisted with a nod “Let me show you,” Twin tensed up in fear but Ruby simple turned towards the door and called “Alex.” In a perfectly level voice. Within a minute there was a firm, almost excited, knock.

Ruby opened the door and Alex stood there, shivering once, whilst Twin blinked unable to understand how he’d heard Ruby “You called?” He asked.

“Yes, Alex, go collect Twinwing’s contract for me, as well as the ‘pony prey hunting law’ from the revised law book.” Ruby ordered and Alex bowed, glancing at Twin, when he noticed him, before sprinting away in an eager flash.

Twin awkwardly shuffled where he sat, unsure what to expect as he heard Alex sprinting up again, returning with the contract “Here you are Mistress!” Alex said bowing as he offered the two papers and Ruby took them in her magic, Alex leaving with a strange broad smile.

Ruby took out Twin’s contract first, flipping through the pages before reading out loud “The signer acknowledges and accepts that they may not leave the residence of their employer without their permission whilst in their employment, and that by breaking this rule they will be punished according to the employer’s verdict; this may include, but isn’t limited to; plucking or grafting (the act of removing Pegasus wings or Unicorn horns), retraining at a special facility, being used as ‘prey’ to feed their employer or imprisonment.” Twin gulped and Ruby offered it for him to read, sure enough on the middle of the second of the three pages, the one Twin had skipped over completely, was the whole list of punishments and several redirections to various new laws when required.

“Next, the prey law. Prey; ponies that are utilised as food for lamias, are typically made up of ponies who have committed crimes or broken contracts,” Ruby glanced at Twin as he paled, as much as a white stallion can anyway “Additional prey numbers can be made up of those who wish to experience what it is like to be prey, magical recreation is available if you volunteer willingly, as well as those who actively sell themselves as meals for lamias (snake snack restaurants), or those in debt. In all cases listed above, preventing said prey from having access to soul snip treatments is illegal, only those who are put into it as a punishment are refrained from a soul snip. The law doesn’t prevent ponies living with or are in a relationship with a lamia from being eaten by said lamia partner/roommate and it is their own responsibility to get a soul snip treatment beforehoof.” Ruby looked up from the contract with a smile.

“A soul snip?” Twin asked confused, how could a pony make a profession out of being eaten and digested? It was a one-way trip!

“Yes, it’s a magical spell made by the lamias back in my homeland, the Badlands, it takes a piece of your soul and part of your physical self, typically a lock of hair, and regrows you back in a specially made pot of, what’s simply known as; ‘vitaeque reddenda’ liquid. The mare you saw me eat had that treatment, her husband owed me some money and traded her instead.” Ruby said rubbing the bulge which moaned weakly and quietly “So… you tried to escape simply because you failed to read you contract?” Twin withered where he sat, cowering under Ruby’s gaze as he nodded, his voice failing him.

Ruby remained silent, absentmindedly stroking her bulge with a hoof before she sighed “I will let you off this one time, understand Twinwing?” Twin looked up, hardly able to believe it “But… you owe me, and I can have whatever I want from you, deal?” Ruby offered.

“W-wait, anything?” Twin asked nervously.

“I won’t harm you… unless you’d prefer I ate you right now? Because that is the alternative!” Twin shook his head furiously.

“N-no! No, it’s fine! Deal… any… anything you want… just don’t kill me.” Twin pleaded and Ruby cupped his chin with her tail.

“I have no intention of doing that Twinwing,” Ruby said soothingly “Now, I imagine you are rather hungry?” Twin shook his head politely. In response, Twin’s stomach growled loudly in protest, begging for Ruby’s help and Ruby chuckled “You can eat with me, if you have any questions feel free to ask. But please, don’t try to escape again.” Ruby said before calling for Bolt this time.

“Why do you keep ponies from leaving?” Twin asked immediately.

“Well…” Ruby paused, thinking on what to say “I do maintain order after all, and there are those out there who might steal my information in the hopes of harming innocent lives. If you had tried to take information to the wrong ponies… well, you’d end up like Fleur but without the get out of jail card.” Ruby said with a chuckle as Bolt appeared, looking rather sleepy, clearing he had just gone to bed during Twin’s escape attempt.

“You called,” He said with a yawn, rubbing his eyes.

“Yes, Bolt, would you mind fixing us something to eat… maybe a ‘mind soothe’ salad for Twinwing here, and something… ‘strong’ for him to drink. He’s had a little bit of a scare that he did to himself.” Ruby said glancing back at Twin as Bolt nodded “And I’ll have cake.” Ruby said with a little foalish clap of her hooves.

“As you wish.” Bolt said heading back downstairs.

Twin tried to get comfy, settling upon Ruby’s bed, glancing occasionally at Fleur’s bulge. This focus meant he failed to notice Ruby’s tail creeping up behind him until it had looped around his shoulders, pushing him forward. Ruby grinned, sliding Fleur towards Twin and pinning him underneath as the weight of Fleur and Ruby’s tail knocked Twin down, plus the sudden shove forward disorientated Twin’s balance so he was caught off guard. Ruby pushed down Fleur’s bulge against Twin so her facial features appeared slightly disorientated through Ruby’s red underbelly, her mouth open in delight with dips showing where her eyes were.

“Do you like how she looks, her figure only just visible through lines of soft, squishy and yet irresistible fat and muscle? She’s barely able to move you know, only wriggle slightly as my stomach pulverises her body, massaging her in stomach acids to melt her down. She doesn’t feel any pain, just a rising, tingling pleasure. Her mind melting in the gas formed by her body joining mine and the acid that’s working towards that goal.” Ruby pushed Fleur into Twin and her moan was much louder now he was so close. Fleur shuffled left and right, her hooves pressing into Ruby’s wall, her horn pushing a little bump out as she moaned more.

Ruby slipped a thicker coil underneath Twin, sandwiching him between two tubes of scales and the bulge “Doesn’t she look so happy, her mind unable to handle so much stimuli at oncccce.” Twin gasped then sighed, Ruby’s hissing voice making him focus more on what Fleur’s moans meant, how her body was being pressed in on all sides by thick scales and squishy stomach walls, her body melting away to join their seductive owner… how every second was causing mind shattering bliss to Fleur, unable to escape or resisssst.

Twin weakly reached up, trying to push Fleur off him, but Ruby looped Fleur around Twin, the mare crying out as she was made to bend around, her screams of delight rattling in Twin’s ears “It must feel so good, don’t you think?” Ruby asked resting her hooves on Fleur and leaning towards Twin.

“When did she get so close… she’s getting closer… I… I should back up!” But Twin didn’t listen to his own thoughts, instead he sat up, pushing against Fleur and Ruby lightly kissed him, tilting her head to play with his lips, a thick forked tongue flickering over Twin’s mouth.

Ruby briefly pulled back “Open your mouth Twinwing,” She purred and Twin complied, obeying the sweet voice as he was pushed back down as Ruby’s tongue delved inside. Ruby’s tongue wasn’t limited like a pony’s tongue and looped and spun around Twin’s own, squeezing and toying with it, controlling Twin effortlessly. Ruby leaned back, licking her lips with a smile as Twin panted “You lusssst for me.” Ruby breathed, Twin opened his eyes, surprised but as Ruby’s hissing caught in his brain Twin leaned back, the words fading in a swirl of serpentine hissing.

“Wha-what?” Twin mumbled, confused, what had he been thinking about?

“Mistress, your order!” Bolt called and Twin blinked, glancing to his side at Fleur’s head, which had faded back into the tail now Ruby wasn’t pushing her down against the edges of her tail, Twin wished she would it had looked so… sexy…

Twin rubbed his head, sexy? That? What was so attractive about being completely bound within a tight, squishy sack as your body slowly melted into a puddle of bliss, the walls compressing and massaging you as all you can do it moan weakly, the lamia who ate you unconcerned as you wriggle, trying to keep your body moving so you don’t melt away into those soft, sensual coils even as your mind is failing and all you want to do is fall still and slip away… what indeed?

Twin blinked as Ruby hovered a tall glass of some sort of purple liquid towards him “Here, drink up, it’ll help you relax.” Ruby insisted pressing the cool glass to Twin’s lips, the ice clinking merrily.

Twin recognised the scent, it was the dripleaf from the shampoo and Ruby’s lotion. A dull smile spread over Twin’s lips as the glass tilted upward, Twin unable to resist Ruby’s nonverbal command to drink, his mouth opening as he quickly gulped down the drink as fast as Ruby allowed. Twin sighed, eyes half closing, as the smooth, spicy, sweet drink broke, burnt, melted and rebuilt his nerves in a forge of bliss. Twin’s concerns of the contract and Fleur’s fate had numbed further, taking a backseat as this drink took over the front.

Ruby smiled as Twin leaned back into her coils, flexing and rubbing his back softly with the thick tubes of muscle and fat, watching the liquid disappear until it was all gone. Ruby set the glass down and Twin gulped, licking his lips as his head dipped forward slightly, gazing into the distance… which just happened to be filled with red and white.

“See something you like?” Ruby asked with sultry smile “Finding your mind wandering, sinking and fading into silence. Enjoying the sensation of my scales rubbing back and forth over your body, small and helplessssssss.” Twin gave a sharp little gasp as Ruby hissed, her voice was like static, zapping him causing Twin to sit up alert, then Ruby’s words dribbled into his brain and he began to take notice of the subtle heaves of Ruby’s tail, rubbing and caressing every part of his body. Twin shuffled, feeling the coils mould and tug at him, forcing his body back into the same position… small and helplessssssss…

Ruby nodded to herself, lifting up a small bowl that was filled with a mixed salad, some normal ingredients such as lettuce and sliced tomatoes made up the base, but it was covered in what looked like diced or even grated bits of purple leaf and a purplish sauce.

“Dripleaf is very… popular.” Twin commented with a dull blink as Ruby helped feed the stallion the meal.

“Indeed, it’s from my homeland. One of the few trees capable of growing where we lived. You should have seen our original home,” Ruby gave Twin a mouthful of leaves and sauce, Twin focusing on chewing and swallowing, too distracted by Ruby’s silky voice to complain she was feeding him like an infant, thoughts were just too difficult right now “It was set atop several trees, higher than Canterlot castle, forming a great canopy ceiling above us. Rope bridges connected house to house as lamias slithered across or between branches, grand colours and sparkling scales slithering between branches filled with purple, sunlight filtering and flickering through glowing over our bodies as ponies approached… a rising sense of calm and excitement at the mere sight of us.” Twin shut his eyes, letting his mind build up Ruby’s mental image.

Twin imagined a city, hanging by ropes, that seemed to shift slightly every so often so the whole floating metropolis had a small sway to it. Between each hanging house massive lamias slithered to and from buildings going about their daily business. Twin smiled as he watched the colours shift and mould together, like a dripping water painting. Twin opened his eyes and glanced down as Ruby squeezed him in the real world, before shutting his eyes and returning to his daydream. Twin’s mind conjured up a bundle of scales that looped under his rump before they lifted him up towards the waiting city of scales. The lamias all smiled in welcome to the latest guest as he was lifted up by Ruby’s disembodied tail and quickly advanced on Twin, looping and wrapping up. The mass amount of scales and the coils looping over him made Twin fall onto his back from the weight, the coils now easily looping over the helpless stallion, gasping for breath, feeling wheezy as his mind began to ring as if somepony had blown a whistle near his ear.

“Twinwing,” Twin blinked, opening his eyes and gulping down a bit of saliva and dripleaf that had been running down the side of his mouth. Twin felt Ruby’s coils move… or the coils of the lamias from his mind? Twin wasn’t sure and as reality began to settle back into Twin’s mind he flushed slightly at gawping off, causing Ruby to chuckle softly at his reaction.

“Sorry.” Twin said in a tiny voice.

Ruby laughed, levitating a spoon down to her own cake, breaking a sliver off the light triple chocolate cheesecake to eat “Why are you apologising? You were just thinking, delighting over your thoughts of coils and lamias, right?” Ruby asked with a soft sigh, her breath smelling of milk chocolate, a lovely sweet scent.

“Er… yeah… yeah course…” Twin said as Ruby rolled her tail underneath herself, swishing red over white like water lapping up the sides of a beach, Twin looking down before noticing how tightly bound he was by Ruby’s tail. Twin shuffled about, trying to sit up and get free “Ruby can you uncoil me a bit?” Twin asked.

“Ssshhhh, it’s fine, don’t think about it,” Ruby said giving Twin the last of his salad.

“Fine… don’t… think about it…” Twin mumbled with a nod.

“Just let your body settle in my grasp, let your mind sink into the soothing scales.” Ruby hummed as she set the plates on her bedside table, leaving them for Bolt later, or Twin in the morning perhaps.

“S…settle… soothing coils…” Twin said in a quiet voice.

Ruby reached down, closing Twin’s mouth with her hoof “I think it’s time you went to bed, don’t you?” Twin nodded, unsure what Ruby had even said just agreeing automatically. It was simply natural to do so “Excellent, I will think over what you can do to repay me later and then come get you. Understand?” A slightly more alert nod that time “Excellent, for now, simply continue your usual duties in the morning, in the afternoon I have someplace I wish to take you as you might find it comforting after your shock, not to mention I need to pick somepony up. You can just wear the collar for that.” Twin nodded in understanding, not questioning Ruby as he figured he would simply get an answer that wasn’t an answer if he did.

Ruby seemed a little upset he hadn’t asked though “I had a response and everything.” She thought before speaking aloud “Good, I’ll get you when I’m ready for you to pay off your ‘debt’. Now, off to bed… scaly dreams.” Ruby said lifting Twin up, spinning him around slowly with a subtle squeeze before uncoiling him, letting Twin, with shaky numb legs, take his own weight again.

“Th-thank you Ruby, for not being mad. Goodnight.” Twin said with a little bow of his head before leaving.

“No Twinwing,” Ruby said with a smile as Twin quietly made his way back downstairs “Thank you for trying to escape.”

Twin pushed open the door to his room, glancing around briefly before closing the door and stepping forward, flopping down atop the pile of squishy coil covers and rolling over. Twin sighed, staring up at the ceiling as he thought. Twin couldn’t get his mind to shift from Ruby eating Fleur and her ex-staff member, images of them sliding deeper into Ruby’s belly, wriggling and moaning, kept prodding through Twin’s mind preventing him from truly focusing on how frightening it was that Ruby’s failed staff member, unlike Fleur, wouldn’t return.

“Assuming Ruby is telling the truth about Fleur’s fate.” Twin thought to himself, a little doubtfully, as his eyes began to droop.

What could he make of this situation? On one hoof, this was clearly normal, due to the laws and the staff reactions. On the other, however, it was still beyond terrifying and Twin now had that looming over his head, instead of rent or bills. Being gobbled up and trapped in a tight tunnel of snake scales sliding deeper into a giant tube of muscle waiting to be digested, pressing his face against Ruby’s armoured body, his features only slightly recognisable through the walls of pulsating flesh, moaning as his body melted, his nerves singing in morbid delight as his body joined the soft comfy coils of his Mistress, unable to escape or resist their dominating, conquering control as their owner snuggled up to his wriggling bulge, rubbing him into submission as he began to melt like heated ice cream…

“Twinwing,” A voice hummed, dragging out the syllables, as Twin floated along, unaware of what was happening around him and uncaring… his back was rubbing against something smooth and sleek, rubbing him slightly in just the right way to keep him coaxed into submission and docility “Twinwing, open your eyes and look at your Mistress when she speaks to you.” The voice said again, playfully, as the same sleek appendage rubbing Twin’s back stroked his cheek.

Twin hummed, opening his eyes, glancing around before noticing Ruby hovering above him, her tail holding herself upright. Ruby’s mane was floating around her head ethereally, similar to how it had floated in her bath. Twin was laying upon a… world of coils? Looking left and right, Ruby’s tail stretched on endlessly, coils every which way you looked, some rising up to form ‘trees’ with hanging ‘vines’ all made of white and red coils, the sun glittering across them with an angelic glow. Twin sat up slowly and looked around as his ears flickered. A chorus of moaning echoed over the valley of scales as Twin turned to look seeing disproportionately large bulges slipping and sliding along the rising and falling mounds of coils. They wriggled and struggled slightly, their features pressing against the walls briefly before sinking away, in some areas the bulges were silent and Twin saw them shrink in insanely fast forward into smooth round orbs of liquid fuel for Ruby’s coils.

“Isn’t it beautiful… so peaceful.” Ruby said slithering down onto Twin, her tail resting upon him as she looped her pony body around his shoulders, wrapping her hooves around his neck, her breath playing over his ear.

Twin heard Ruby speak, but the words were garbled and muffled, yet a rising sense of calm and peace began to well in the back of Twin’s mind as he watched the ponies submit to their fate. Twin stood up, Ruby, surprisingly light, still sat on his back whispering to him as Twin began to follow the progress of one coil bulge. As Twin wandered beside it the coils became somewhat transparent. Twin could see the pulsating, undulating, fleshy walls of Ruby’s tail pushing the pony along. Bolt’s eyes were rolled up into his head, mouth wide open as he moaned ceaselessly, his legs and wings twitching as he struggled, sliding deeper.

Twin sat down beside Bolt, who suddenly just stopped moving as Twin rubbed the scales surrounding him, Bolt fading back into an indistinguishable bulge as Twin did so.

“Doesn’t it look so good, just right… why fight what is so natural?” Ruby asked and Twin nodded slightly as he was pulled up onto his hind legs “Why debunk something you’ve never tried?” Twin looked up, Ruby’s mouth still moving as she spoke and yet growing larger and larger… closer and closer…

Twin’s mouth hung open as his head was pushed downward as Ruby easily gulped him down. Twin figured the actual process would be much slower, Ruby wouldn’t just slip down to his hind hooves and gulp him down in one like a noodle… or would she…? Regardless, Twin felt himself suddenly fly upward into the air, Ruby slurping down his tail as Twin began to slide down into her belly. Twin’s legs were locked to his side, his wings rubbing over every slippery bump. Twin slid up and down, rocking as if at sea, pushing him into the squishy, relaxing walls. Juices dripped down onto Twin’s body and every part of his body sang with bliss. Twin kicked and thrashed his legs, managing to roll around onto his belly as he slid deeper down Ruby’s endless tail, spinning around and around, his body and mind going numb as his eyes twitched, mouth open as Twin panted for air… this was too good… heaven would lose its shine if it didn’t include something like this.

“Such a lively morsel, wriggle and squirm for me.” Ruby cooed, her voice clear and loud, Twin could even feel her breath on the side of his face “Feel yourself melt away into coil lining!” Twin moaned as his body seemed to lose solidity, slowly turning into something that resembled melted ice cream in summer heat.

Every bit of Twin that melted only heightened his pleasure, Twin struggled, finding that prolonged the process of him turning into paste, his colours mixing into Ruby’s stomach acid, as if he were dripping away into the clear pool of liquid… finally, Twin’s legs melted into liquid goop and he slipped under the liquid fully. For a moment concern about drowning flooded Twin’s mind but he soon found he could breathe through the slightly tar like liquid. Though this didn’t matter as, after a few minutes, Twin’s physical body had entirely melted away into nothing but coil fat, yet he was still, slightly, aware of what was happening. Twin floated, the last of his liquid body being absorbed into Ruby before all turned dark. Twin blinked and he was sat snug in a giant bundle of white and red coils, each one with the thickness of Twin stood on his hind legs, in front of him, Ruby was nestled against his torso, leaning into his chest with a seductive grin as she stroked his mane.

Twin flushed, smiling sheepishly as a coil looped around his neck, tightening and sliding back and forth as Ruby pressed against Twin’s warm body with her cold body, sapping away his heat to warm herself, a faint red flush lining the white face. Twin gasped, feeling short of breath, was he holding his breath in the waking world to get this reaction? Twin didn’t care, so long as he didn’t wake… this was blissssss- CLANG-CLANG-CLANG!!!

Twin groaned, trying to cling to the fading dream but the clanging of wood on metal persisted. Not only that, Twin heard his door open, enhancing the sound of the wood on metal before it closed with a loud snap and Twin opened his eyes with an irritated growl. Twin stood up, flinging the coils that had closed him into a small cave off his head, and galloped to the door, half opening the door before grabbing his uniform. As Twin left he saw the mare who was responsible for his unwanted awakening heading for one of the showers.

“Hay, you!” Twin called trotting up towards her, his irritation from losing such a delightful dream clouding any semblance of sense. The mare paused, looking back at Twin as he approached her.

“Yes, what’s the matter?” She asked in a soft and slow voice, every syllable nearly being sighed out by the mare.

“What’s the matter? The matter is you just woke me up!” Even as Twin said it his frustration couldn’t cloud over how stupid that sounded.

“Yes, it is my job, I do it every morning, I did it yesterday if you recall… why does it bother you, the contract specifically says to wake up at this hour.” The mare pointed out and Twin tapped his hoof.

“I… I was having a dream and you interrupted it.” Twin admitted flushing at the ridiculousness of his excuse for his short temper.

“Was it about the Mistress?” The mare asked turning to face Twin with attenuative eyes.

“Er… yeah it was.” Twin admitted.

“Oh,” The mare withered a little “I am very sorry, I know how pleasant those dreams can be. But I would suggest if you really want it to come true speak to the Mistress,” The mare sighed with a vacant stare “She is very caring, she tries her best to make time to keep us all happy. Even if we simply want to… look at her…” Her eyes half drooped and Twin glanced over as doors began to open.

“Yeah, I’ll… think about it, sorry…”

“Nedra,” Nedra said with the same expression and now a dull smile.

“Um… Twinwing… yeah anyway, I’m gonna have a shower then get to work… sorry again.” As Twin slipped into one of the bathrooms, Nedra, unfazed by Twin’s outburst, continued with her own routine, he promised himself something; he would never bring this dream up with Ruby. And the thought soon drifted from his mind as Twin began to wash himself…

Twin’s morning routine followed identically to that of the previous day’s; wash, dress, head to Ruby’s bathroom and prepare her bath. Only when Twin reached Ruby’s room did something of note slip out of place, and it wasn’t just the fact he had already collected his cleaning equipment to save himself some time. Twin peeked inside, checking he wasn’t disturbing Ruby’s sleep. Sure enough, the huge snake was stretched out on her bed, tail rising and falling in a slow, steady tempo as she breathed softly. Twin stepped inside, closing the door and floating up above Ruby’s tail. Twin glanced around, looking for a nice spot to lay down upon Ruby’s coils and allow her to wrap him up. However, Twin’s focus naturally brought his gaze up to Ruby’s sleeping form and he floated closer to the top of the bed. Ruby was resting atop a pile of her own coils acting as pillows on her back, squishing actual ones beneath them, her legs resting near her head in the perfect sleeping position. Twin gulped, hovering lower and moving further up the bed towards the sleeping mare.

“I can just settle with her… tell her that her coils dragged me over to her, she won’t mind doesn’t matter how she gets my warmth so long as she gets it.” Twin thought to himself, trying to justify what he had planned, what he wanted. However, as he got close Ruby’s head shuffled and a little and he was sure her eyelids moved.

“I’m going to wake her!” Twin thought, but this didn’t happen, Ruby didn’t so much as stir after that.

As gently as he could, Twin rested himself atop Ruby, his face nestled just under her chin as he landed on her cold pony torso. Twin smiled slightly as he rested his head sideway on Ruby’s body, glancing down as he heard a soft series of swishing, Ruby’s coils flowing along like water towards him. Twin watched as the coils drew over him like a massive blanket, pushing down all over him… they were perfectly uniform… almost… deliberate?

Twin glanced up at Ruby, keeping his head still and he noticed her eyelids shudder slightly, however he quickly looked back down, focusing on a random coil that was twisting and slithering back and forth, rubbing together for warmth from friction.

“There’s no need to tell her… I can just let Ruby warm up, no need to disturb this moment.” Twin thought with a sheepish smile as the coil began to twist around itself into a knot before undoing itself.

Twin’s eyes rolled in their sockets, fixated on the tumbling coils, Twin kept telling himself it was simply something to focus on to avoid Ruby noticing… it wasn’t drawing and holding his attention. Twin lifted his head up as the coil moved downward behind another pile of coils but felt Ruby wrap her legs around his head and push him back down, stroking his mane and, without thinking, mumbled;

“Sorry.” To her, biting his lip once he’d realised what he’d done.

Ruby shifted and Twin knew she was looking down at him “It’s fine,” Ruby hummed quietly “I don’t mind you indulging in your coil kink.” Ruby said with a smile.

“I-I don’t-” Twin tried to argue that he didn’t have a coil kink but couldn’t finish before a coil looped up over his mouth, rubbing his lips as they silenced his voice and Twin sighed, relaxing back into Ruby’s embrace, giving the coil over his face a little kiss before flushing deeply.

“Sure, you don’t, Twinwing.” Ruby chuckled as the coil blanket closed in further, squishing Twin against Ruby’s body as she rubbed her chin on his mane “Sure you don’t.” She said again, pushing her tail down, rubbing his back.

Twin moaned softly, feeling his back click into place causing his mouth to hang open as his body washed with relief. Ruby casually rubbed back and forth over Twin, there was no effort in it, no pinpoint focus… but it all felt so wonderfully delightful, Twin just didn’t want to break this little tranquil bubble. Ruby seemed to share the thought, though she also understood her day had to begin. So, with a deft little prod to Twin’s belly, Ruby tried to coax Twin up. Twin hummed, lifting up his body, but remaining atop Ruby’s tail and belly all the same.

Ruby smirked at Twin’s obvious indication to what he wanted. Normally, she’d teasingly refuse a pony who did this into admitting they like coils, but Ruby was in no mood to risk having Twin snap out of his hazy bliss, so she simply hooked her tail under him, taking Twin’s weight and lifted him up, spinning him around the blanket of coils until he was nice and bundled up. The bottom half of Twin’s leg stuck out as well as his head, which was still covered by a coil gag, Twin looked up at Ruby with a faint flush.

Twin let out a small series of muffled words into Ruby’s tail to which she responded with “Your welcome, Twinwing.” Causing the stallion to flush, his ears turning down to his head, but otherwise making no indication for Ruby to stop, or restrain herself.

Ruby stood up from her bed, stretching and flexing her tail, which just so happened to cause Twin to be squeeze tightly as Ruby worked the muscles awake with a little test of their constriction around him. Air whistled out of Twin’s nose and he moaned once, tilting his head back as his neck was choked, his hind legs dancing up and down happily and Ruby openly laughed, causing Twin to stop as Ruby held him above her head, slithering out of the room and down to the bathroom.

Once inside the steam filled bathroom, Ruby set Twin down, uncoiling him gracefully before slipping into the water, twirling around the floor and settling by the edge, not trying to tempt Twin into the water again this time. A little faster than the day before, Twin hurried over to Ruby and set to work, settling down beside her pony body to work on her mane, spilling a little extra of the strawberry shampoo into the bath in his haste. Ruby smiled as she leaned back into Twin’s hooves, which were shaking a little as had to steel his excitement for the lotion.

Ruby noticed and smiled “Twinwing, what oil have you selected?” She asked casually, facing away from Twin to avoid letting him see her devilish smile.

“Oh, just the same as yesterday. It works so well I didn’t see any reason to change it.” Twin said in a high voice, trying to be casual as well. He was failing though.

“Oh no, Twinwing, I can’t use the same they cost quite a lot,” True, but bits were of little concern for Ruby, especially since she had both financial shares in the lamia lotion trade and a different kind of ‘share’ that allowed her free bottles every so often “And I need a diverse line, maybe slither ease today, since we’re going out I don’t want my scales to get chipped from the roads.” As if lamia scales, with a density to rival ten inches of sloped steel, could ‘chip’ on rocks.

“O-oh, ugh… r-right you are… I suppose,” Twin bit his lip as he left Ruby to rinse her mane, Ruby having to cover her mouth to avoid inhaling water as she silently laughed at Twin’s reaction.

Twin whimpered as he returned the ensnaring fragrance to its place, looking around briefly, his eyes often darting back to the purple marked bottle, before locating the slither ease bottle, which had a lamia showing off her smooth scales with a smile. Twin returned to Ruby who smiled, offering a particularly large coil… Twin paused as he realised what it was and flushed, settling down. Fleur was, as expected, entirely liquid now, just a soup of nutrients for Ruby to fatten herself with. Twin sat down pulling the coil closer ‘forgetting’ to move his legs so it ended up spread over his lap, trapping him. The bugle was large enough that, when Twin leaned down to grab the bottle of lotion, he could smile out of Ruby’s line of sight at how nice the runny coil felt on his legs. Twin sat up, smile gone, as he set to work on the slightly stretched scales.

Ruby moaned slowly and Twin flushed at the slightly erotic sound “Aahhhh, that’s it Twinwing,” Twin felt a beat in his neck and then heard a heavy ‘fwomf’ sound from behind him as he wings opened out behind him against his will, shoving his uniform upward revealing the lower half of his body and legs “Huh, oh Twinwing… did you like that sound I made?” Ruby purred.

Twin stuttered out a few bits of gibberish before shaking his head to clear it “No… I mean ye-I mean… um, I just thought it would be more comfortable to have my wings open whilst I… lean against this coil?” Twin suggested as an excuse, unsure what he was even really saying in his embarrassment right now, but the words soon dribbled from his mouth to his brain “O-oh Celestia,” Twin thought as Ruby smiled.

“Really, what about yesterday? Aren’t you still scared?” Ruby asked.

“Oh, no… well, a bit but… I understand it’s normal here so… I don’t mind?” Twin didn’t really know the answer as to why he wasn’t scared anymore, he knew he ought to be, but the sense of fear had simply dissipated during the night and Twin had no intentions of sharing with Ruby what had happened during that time!

Ruby however smiled “Worked nicely,” The crafty snake thought “Alright, not going to argue with you about it, that’s for sure!” Ruby said as she shifted the thick coil around, using it sort of like the back of a chair from Twin to lean against, which he did, his stiff wings pressing into the coils causing Twin to gulp; that felt really good, and Ruby could tell that was what he was thinking. As Ruby looked at Twin’s face, his mouth biting his lip, eyes wide with rapid breathing, his expression caused Ruby’s mind to start formulating an idea for Twin’s ‘favour’ that night.

Twin closed his eyes briefly, bringing his mind back into focus as he continued working on Ruby’s tail, coils slipping and slithering by underneath his hooves, pushing and rubbing against the frogs of his hooves, all the while Ruby’s large coil heaved up and down, rubbing his wings suggestively. Finally, Ruby seemed satisfied with Twin’s work, that or the water was going cold, and stood up to get out, Twin hopping up before realising his wings were still stretched out. He quickly grabbed a coil to drape it over them, acting as if he were keeping it off the floor for her. Ruby smiled as she slithered past, Twin drying Ruby off quickly.

“I will let you get to work on my room, Twinwing. When you have finished I will collect you from the staffroom at one, don’t eat, we can have something whilst we’re out.” Twin nodded in understanding and sighed as Ruby left the room, before turning to his still outstretched wings.

“Stupid… WINGS!” Twin grumbled as he tried to force his wings back down to his side. Outside the bathroom, Ruby giggled to herself whilst listening. Twin would be having more ‘problems’ with his wings tonight. Though, perhaps he wouldn’t care when Ruby started to ‘help’ him with said problem.

Still flustered, Twin poked his head out the doorway, the sound of water draining away filling the hallway. Twin shut the door with a hard thud, sprinting down the hallway, with his uniform still held up by his wings. Twin heard a shuffle downstairs and galloped desperately up, just in time to avoid Nedra noticing him, the butler pausing, blinking slowly as her mind gradually told her what she’d just seen.

Twin grabbed his equipment beside Ruby’s door and shut it quickly, leaning against it before collapsing on the ground with a sigh. Twin glanced at his wings, flushing deeply “Stupid… sexy lamia.” Twin grumbled, standing up and doing his best to ignore his outstretched wings whilst he worked.

The process of cleaning, at first, was slow due to Twin being slightly unbalanced as he tried to walk with his wings open for gliding. Eventually his wings finally returned to reality and Twin folded them down, his uniform sliding back down and Twin was able to work faster, easily finishing before Ruby’s specified time. With the room once again clean, the bed straightened, pillows fluffed up and the fireplace set for another fire, Twin headed out and down to his room, changing out of his uniform. Twin paused, looking at the little white collar with the purple snake eye gem.

“Twinwing,” Twin stood up, glancing around, gulping, before settling once he was sure he hadn’t heard the real Ruby speaking. Twin clipped the collar on and headed out into the hallway.

Twin was about to enter the staff room when he paused, one hoof on the handle as he glanced around then made his way downstairs, having changed his mind. At the entrance to the manor Twin turned to his right and made his way to the normally dimly lit living room, a small smile tugging at his lips as he got closer to her. As Twin opened the door, he was surprised to find the curtains pulled open wide, sunlight heating the room like a greenhouse, heavy fermented smoke from several sticks sat above the unlit fireplace, as if it needed to be lit in here. Ruby was sat with her tail stretched out in front of her, a fold-out table sat with its legs nestled between her coils stacked with a small selection of variously sized papers. One hoof on her cheek, Ruby was lazily twirling a pen in her magic as she read from a small stack of notes, letters, folders and made frequent references to a map at the bottom that seemed to stretch beyond Equestria’s border, on the map were little pins adorned with either a lamia or a pony holding a star in their right hoof with broken chains on the ground around them. Occasionally, Ruby would shift her tail and groan.

“Scales above, I miss Crescent,” Ruby grumbled to herself as her tail gave a little uncomfortable click that made Twin wince in sympathy for Ruby.

Twin cleared his throat “Um, Ruby?” Ruby flicked her head back looking at Twin.

“Oh, it’s not one o’clock yet Twinwing, you’re early,” Ruby said as she casually set her pen down, moving a few papers around, covering up some pictures with them “Why are you here?”

“I er… I just thought you might want some help or… something,” Twin glanced down at Ruby’s shifting tail before gulping “I finished your room and I didn’t think there was time to do much else…” Twin awkwardly glanced around as Ruby smiled at him “So, who was Crescent?” He asked trying to start up some sort of conversation.

“My masseuse, up until a recent dinner I held with other lamias she was in my loyal employment then she got a little… ‘wrapped up’ with another potential employer and I was unable to stop her departure. I have been a little more tense than usual since then.” Ruby said arcing her spine back and stretching then she smiled “Don’t suppose you want to rub down my entire tail, do you?” Ruby asked, lifting up several bundles, scrunching them together so the palpable muscle and fat moulded and melted together.

“Sure! I mean… if it’ll make you comfortable. But I have to admit I’ve never massaged a lamia before.” Twin said as he stepped forward, approaching Ruby’s tail eagerly.

“Well, I’ll talk you through how I like it,” Ruby settled her coils back down on the ground, slipping her tail around Twin “First find someplace comfortable where you can reach my tail,” Twin nodded and moved forward. Twin glanced down at the coils spread out before him, some rising up to the top of his legs. Twin smiled sheepishly and climbed on top of one as it rose up and down with Ruby’s breathing, resting his face on it with a soft laugh before realising what he was doing.

“O-oh, I’m sorry, Ruby.” Twin said standing up and slipping down the other side, settling on the floor between a wall of coils reaching his torso.

“I didn’t mind,” Ruby said with a laugh “Either way, approach the coil you want to start with and wrap your legs around it as if hugging it, place the frogs of your hooves on the line where my upper scales reach my belly scales…” Ruby waited as Twin performed this action, standing with his legs either side of the selected coil “Now press in about half an inch… a bit more… okay,” Ruby sighed, smiling “Rub in small slow circles and work up to the top, roll back a little in circles, left clockwise and right anticlockwise, about a couple inches or so each time then work your way back down and repeat until you reach the end of my tail… Feel free to wrap yourself up in the coils you’ve pampered.” Ruby hummed.

Twin nodded, Ruby watching over him as he began following the instructions. Twin could feel the liquid like fat under Ruby’s armour, the smooth scales trying to slip and push out from under his grasp as he began to work in circles. It became easy to feel how to rub over Ruby’s tail, the scales seemed to shift and curl under him perfectly, sliding down was easy enough but sliding back up was a little tricky, Twin flicked a few scales back on his earlier attempts, Ruby both visibly annoyed and in a bit of pain, but Twin soon learned to hold his grip down more firmly when working the small circles down Ruby’s tail towards her tail tip, simply moving a patch of scales under the frogs of his hooves instead of rubbing each individual scale and not trying to slide along Ruby’s tail or against it when going up, lifting his hooves up entirely if a flick of scales was looming. It, admittedly, wasn’t amazing, but it still felt nice for Ruby and was a notable good first attempt. Twin’s progress was snail slow however but Ruby didn’t complain, instead returning to her work as Twin reached the first turn in Ruby’s tail.

Glancing up at Ruby, now returning to his work, Twin looked up back towards where he had started. He hadn’t done much, about one and half the height of himself transferred into snake coils, but this didn’t stop Twin hopping off Ruby’s tail briefly and grabbing the start point. Twin stood on his hind legs, flapping his wings to balance himself as he lifted Ruby’s tail over his shoulder, dragging the lower half around his waist like a belt. Twin smiled, as did Ruby as she twirled the coil beside Twin’s cheek around his neck and directed him back to her tail, letting him flop on top of the coil, Twin now working from a prone position atop Ruby’s tail. As he worked, Ruby now had to slide her tail along underneath Twin’s belly as he seemed reluctant to move from the comfortable spot, as penance, Ruby began to pile her massaged tail atop Twin’s body, covering him up into a cave, only his front hooves free, not even his face was soon spared as a coil leapt over his eyes and pulled his nose upward, Twin panting as his collar was pushed in by its thicker, scalier counterpart. Ruby glanced back at Twin as he panted, his tongue hanging out as he drooled a little as she squeezed him.

“Coil addict.” Ruby hummed in her head with a wide grin and then tilted her head, a slick grin stretching over her mouth.

Ruby let her tail tip slither and pat against Twin’s cheek, climbing down the side of his cheek to his chin before hooking under his mouth and pushing it up a little. The very end of Ruby’s tail tip then wedged itself between Twin’s lips and he flushed, giving it a little peck, pushing his head forward with what slack the coils permitted before pressing into his windpipe. Ruby grinned triumphantly before slipping the tail tip inside Twin’s mouth, letting him kiss it more intimately, suckling softly as if it were also a lolly, the scent of Ruby’s morning shampoo washing over Twin’s nose as he panted through his now limited airway.

“Mmmm, don’t stop massaging me Twinwing,” Ruby ordered, nudging underneath him with her tail.

Twin nodded with a muffled moan, drawing the tail tip a little deeper as he kept working, the coil over his eyes rubbing up and down, massaging his eyes shut as Twin began to imagine how he must look, surrounded and entombed by a mass of muscular, comfortable white and red scales. Ruby casually reading, uncaring of Twin’s love of her embrace, her smooth, sensual scales rubbing and rolling over his body…

Twin squeaked and quickly leapt up, the sudden movement catching Ruby off guard as Twin managed to slip off the coil he had been lying on. Ruby glanced back, confused then smiled “Something wrong?” She asked casually, Twin’s face so brightly lit he could be a flare.

“Er, I just noticed it was nearly one?” Twin nodded to a little clock sat beside Ruby. Mercifully, it did indeed read just a few minutes before one.

“Indeed, it is,” Ruby noted looking back at Twin who was awkwardly hiding behind Ruby’s coils, still massaging them to derive any suspicion “Well, come along then Twinwing, I know your nerves want settling after your fright yesterday.” Ruby said standing up, quickly packing and folding the map and its contents into a small lockbox, before making her way to the door “Come along, Twinwing.” Ruby ordered and Twin nodded, grabbing a few coils and draping them over himself like a cloak “What are you doing?”

“Oh, I… I just thought you might need warming whilst we’re out.” He said smiling.

“It’s summer, Twinwing, don’t worry about it,” Ruby said with a knowing smile “You don’t have to go out with my coils wrapped around you.”

Twin awkwardly shifted “Can’t I keep them?” He asked quietly.

“Tell me why, aren’t you afraid I might gobble you up?” Twin shook his head and Ruby raised an eyebrow.

“No, but…” Twin flushed “I just like how they feel.” He admitted and Ruby squeezed his neck tightly, making Twin gulp.

Ruby stared at Twin’s neck, it wasn’t a lie, but she knew it wasn’t the truth. Surprisingly smart, or Twin was simply slipping down into the snake pit “Alright then, by all means add a few more then. But I still reserve the right to squeeze you spontaneously and without warning.” Ruby said laughing at Twin’s nervous expression.

Ruby opened the door out of the living room and glanced around “Bolt, come here, we’re leaving now.” Twin looked up, shuffling along as fast as he could, it was awkward for him between the coils and… yeah, the coils…

Bolt soon joined the pair, smiling up at Ruby as she gently patted his mane with her tail like an affectionate dog. Bolt then glanced at Twin and waved happily and Twin waved back, a corkscrew of coils trailing down his leg merging with his own fur. Ruby offered Bolt a hanging coil and he slipped his head into it, further instilling the image of a dog in Twin’s mind as Ruby tugged him along… closely followed by Twin.

“Guess I’m not really in a position to judge Bolt.” Twin thought with a sheepish smile.

Wasn’t too bad all things considered, but Twin couldn’t deny he had thought it would be just Ruby and him and the fact Bolt was tagging along made him feel a little less… desired…

Regardless of Twin’s mood, Ruby paraded the two stallions out in her courtyard and led them up to the gate, which grinded back up into its slot allowing the trio to leave without getting dragged back inside by a torrent of coils. Ruby gave Twin a jerk to speed him up, Bolt easily keeping up beside Ruby whilst Twin had to struggle on. The walk into town was somewhat awkward but Twin was soon able to walk with less hassle once he’d… ‘calmed down’ allowing him to speed up and fall in line with Bolt on the opposite side of Ruby’s swishing tail. Both stallions were focused on watching it twist and twirl left and right, gliding over the road. However, Twin noticed a flicker of light in the corner of his eyes, following by several more and his gaze naturally turned to look.

Ruby heard Twin’s quiet gasp and looked over, feeling a little peeved she had lost Twin’s attention. Twin was currently focusing on a pair of lamias dancing around an enchanted fire in the middle of the square, four buckets filled with bits sat before them filling higher as the pair danced, twisting their coils over one another, crossing their hooves in the air and twirling their pony bodies within the centre of the coil tornado like belly dancers. They both had purple coloured silken dresses and the fake flames leapt and jumped from their magic nudging it, dancing along the length of their tails. The crowd were drinking in every shift of every individual scale. A few needed to leave for work or jobs but… to leave during a dance seemed unforgiveable to them…

Ruby looked at Twin as he turned his body to look fully at the dancers before he was jerked forward towards them, Ruby slithering ahead a little faster as Twin and Bolt rushed to follow. Ruby reached the dancers who paused to speak with Ruby, when Twin and Bolt reached them the pair smiled and nodded, moving aside as Ruby slid up between them, dragging her tail up with her leaving the two stallions bare again.

Twin gasped as Ruby held her hooves together above her head and began to spin, the other two lamias spinning their tail around Ruby in a corkscrew fashion, partially hiding Ruby as if she were in a jail of coils. The fire dimmed low then blazed as Ruby flicked her own tail upward, throwing the mixture of coloured coils up into the bright midday sky, the light showering the crowd who clapped eagerly as Ruby matched the pair in grace and speed. At one-point, Ruby began to sway, crossing her hooves over her head in an X shape and wriggling her waist left and right, the two original dancers pausing as their tail tips lifted up, hovering behind Ruby. The light from the fire danced down their coils as they curled them around into hooks then spirals, curling and uncurling them behind Ruby’s back as she swayed, her tail causing the fire to dance from one spiral filled tail to the other. As Ruby danced with the exotic background provided by her sister lamias, Twin began to notice himself swaying in beat with Ruby, glancing around everypony was, eyes slightly dulled as they mimicked Ruby… left… right… left… right…

One member of the crowd leaned forward then stumbled, stepping quickly forward to avoid falling on their face and ending up standing on the coils of the lamia on Ruby’s left. The dancer glanced down and smiled quickly snatching them up around the waist and pulling them up with the trio. The lamia effortless looped her coils over the (un)fortunate pony and began to make them dance, an ethereal glow lighting up their body as they smiled, dancing as if they had trained their whole life, eyes closed as a silent beat overtook them, the lamia guiding them, making the pony dance and Twin thought briefly of a snake and charmer but with the roles reversed.

Finally, Ruby spun one final time, holding her hooves out either side in a curtsey and the crowd cheered and applauded her as she hoped down from the stage, slipping her tail back around Bolt’s neck and all over Twin’s body as she quickly tugged them along before the lamias, and their newest dance partner, could start up again.

“Twinwing,” There was a little venom in Ruby’s voice as Twin turned away from watching the dancers again “Look where you are going.” Ruby cooed as she swayed her tail tip like the dancers had during the display in front of him.

“I’m looking.” Twin said focusing on Ruby’s tail once more.

“Good, wouldn’t want us to walk past here.” Ruby said and Twin blinked, looking up at the building in front of them.

It was a rather bizarre place, it had the outward appearance of a moderately sized convenience store, with the automatic doors and everything, but the board sign didn’t have any name Twin recognised; ‘Lamia Forest’ the background around the words featured a darkened canopy with rays of sunlight and the letters were in the traditional lamia purple eye colour. Ruby slid up to the door and Twin noticed a little advertisement sign on the door as it slid aside ‘Soul snip treatments available ask-’ and then Twin was inside the shop, unable to read the rest of the ad.

When Twin looked back in at the shop interior his image of a convenience store, at least a conventional one, disappeared. The building was set up with a small number of open top metal cages, the fences only knee high but within each individual pen a pony sat beaming up at the latest customers. Multicoloured collars adored their necks and little signs on the front had names, species, age and gender but lower down they also had willing or punishment with a mixture of both scribbled on the listing, as well as pricing and ‘re-eatable’ listing with either yes or no. The ‘pen’ was rather comically as Twin could easily have climbed over it, but most seemed to simply stand on it or behind it as if it did indeed trap them within.

Bolt shuffled forward first and began to inspect them with the same kind of expression one might use when checking for the freshest unlabelled piece of fruit or vegetable. Sometimes, Bolt would actually reach in and check a pony’s mane, turn their beaming head or even poke their rear causing them to moan erotically. As Bolt passed them by the ‘prey’ began to whimper trying to get him to come back, they had quickly established Bolt was selecting Ruby’s prey, who was stood at the till waiting for service. Twin awkwardly shuffled beside Ruby and glanced over the back of the counter, seeing another ad focused on ponies.

“Have a lamia lover? A lamia you want to impress or get closer too? Need some extra bits? Just want to know what the biggest thrill and delight in Equestria feels like but without the concern of your possible demise and the ability to experience it again later? Well then get soul snipped, a quick, easy and painless process available at any Lamia Forest store or prey market. Follow the simple process through with our helpful employees and be the delicious delight for any lamia who captivates your mind.” The images displayed in the ad featured a jar with the letter’s ‘CM’ written on the side, a lamia beside a generic blue pony followed by the pony being eaten before appeared in a cartoony poof of smoke with the jar hovering overhead. An arrow then pointed back to the panel of the lamia eating the pony forming a loop.

Bolt had left the prey selection and was inspecting rows of various spices, herbs and sauces as the cashier finally returned, slipping behind the counter, her tail still pilled outside underneath the lift-up door “Good afternoon, how can I help? Soul snip for two?” She asked cheerfully.

“No, or at least, not yet,” Twin shuffled awkwardly as Ruby glanced at him “I’m paying for one additional prey and picking one regeneration up, registered name is Ruby Scales.” Ruby said taking out a purse of bits and paying the required amount with the indication that she was familiar with their pricing. The cashier looked down at a book, quickly locating Ruby under ‘S’ before nodding.

“Of course, one moment please.” She said returning to the back of the store. Bolt also returned to the prey stalls and selected a peach coloured unicorn mare, pulling her out of her pen as if leading a cow for milking as she joined Ruby and Twin. The lamia soon returned with Fleur in tow, who was walking with a bit of a sway as if drunk.

“See, like I said, perfectly safe.” Ruby whispered to Twin as Fleur stood beside the counter, gasping in delight as Ruby covered her neck with a coil and squeezed tightly.

“Would you like to put her on the regeneration booking again?” The lamia asked.

“No, I have to return her ownership, leave her on the log until her husband comes to collect her whenever he’s ready, he has to pay for the second regeneration, thank you.” Ruby said, heading for the door.

Twin hesitated at the till, glancing at Ruby then back “How… how much is a soul snip?” He mumbled.

“Thirty bits, plus charges per regeneration depending on complexity.” The cashier said in an equally small voice.

“Thank you.” Twin said with a flush and the cashier nodded with a smile as Twin trotted to catch up with Ruby before he lost his coil cover up.

Ruby was stood facing Twin as he trotted out “Got what you wanted?” She asked with an innocent hum and Twin nodded bashfully.

“So, um… do we just go back to the mansion now?” Twin asked trying to deviate from what he’d just asked for.

Ruby smiled “Not quite, I said not to have lunch so let’s have that before we return. Bolt, you take these two back and get them ready for me as I requested, I’ll see you later.” Ruby ordered and Bolt nodded leaving Twin alone with Ruby.

“Nopony to help you now,” Ruby whispered as she nipped Twin’s ear as he felt an electric spark quiver down his body.

“To h-help me?” He asked before Ruby picked him up “Hang on, what do you mean by that!?” Twin felt a little panic fluttering at his chest before Ruby looped a coil over his mouth.

“Ssshhh don’t worry Twinwing, everything is going to be just fine.” Twin let out a squeak of confusion then the coils rubbed back and forth pressing into his back and Twin nodded weakly “There you go, now why don’t we eat?” Ruby suggested, slipping into a modest, restaurant just a few doors down from the lamia forest, setting Twin down on his own hooves, though keeping him looped around the neck like the puppy he was.

“This way, Mistress,” Twin blinked, having missed Ruby’s conversation with the greeter as he led them to a private booth of the restaurant.

Twin sat himself down, unable to see out of the high stain glassed walls covering either side atop the wall fixed C shaped seat. The booth was rather small, deliberately so, meaning Ruby’s tail slithered and slid underneath, covering the spare third side of the seat and began to loop over the ground. Twin glanced down as Ruby’s coils twisted and looped around the base of his hind legs, slipping up the seat to his lap and squeezing, covering his lower half.

“What can I get you, Mistress?” A waitress asked, stepping forward to what Twin thought was a bold place beside Ruby, the lamia’s tail quickly encircling her and tightening.

“Maybe you?” Ruby suggested and the waitress flush.

“I-I’m sorry, Mistress, but current staff aren’t permitted to be meals during service. But we do have a selection, as well as available coil warmers.” The waitress shakily said as Ruby rubbed her waist making her coo softly.

“Shame, but no coil warmers, I have one here,” Twin squeaked, waving slightly at the waitress who looked a little jealous of his position “And I don’t fancy prey right now, maybe just one of every dessert?” The waitress nodded.

“And you?” She asked and Twin shifted, having not had a chance to look yet.

“Hayburger, with plenty of dripleaf, and a bottle of pure liquid dripleaf drink for us both.” Ruby ordered.

“Yeah! I mean… please.” Twin said with an embarrassed smile and the waitress nodded, retreating to the kitchen.

Ruby leaned back into her chair, staring at Twin as she idly slid her coils back and forth “Twinwing,” The stallion looked up as Ruby smiled slipping a coil over herself as she leaned forward, the coil draping down her own body “May I ask; do you find me attractive at all?” Ruby asked as her tail twisted over herself, Twin following its subtle movements.

“Yes,” Twin froze “I mean… I er… I…” Twin couldn’t think of a backtrack response to this, his brain steaming from overheated embarrassment. Literally, the air around Twin’s ears was blurring up.

“Wonderful,” Twin flushed deeper “I know just the perfect way to punish you tonight for trying to flee… although you might enjoy it more so I wonder how effective it’ll really be.” Ruby thought out loud and Twin gulped.

“You’re not still mad at me?” He asked.

“Not at all, in fact, I couldn’t be happier.” Ruby admitted as their food arrived, Twin, at first confused until Ruby quickly poured a hefty glass of dripleaf for Twin who licked his lips as it slipped out, his heart racing wanting it down NOW. All thoughts had been shoved aside at the sight of dripleaf.

Ruby pushed the glass forward and Twin snatched it up halfway to him, tilting it up over his head and gulping it down greedily, cursing his slow, small throat. Twin sighed, panting, as Ruby poured him a second, a rising numbness and blurriness overcoming Twin’s brain. Twin turned his head, vision swimming, as a purple haze began to leak in from the sides of his eyes. The cold material of his glass bringing him back as Ruby offered Twin a second glass of dripleaf, Twin gulping it down as quick as Ruby allowed. Twin tried to reach up but Ruby snatched his hooves away, the purple colouring covering his mind’s eye sliding further over Twin’s vision blocking out his surroundings as Ruby became what little grounding he had left to reality. Twin’s brain was droning like a motor drowning out his thoughts as Ruby poured another glass, a quiet whisper, unheard by Twin, tried its best to stop him, to prevent him from blocking out all logical thought even as he sat up to get to the glass faster than Ruby’s slow movements permitted. But it was too late for Twin’s mind to wrestle back control, the liquid dripleaf gushed down Twin’s throat and his world turned to a lustful purple as he felt his head hit something soft, scaly and squishy, quickly curling around his flustered face, the sound of Ruby giggling filling his ears…

“She’s happy…” Was all Twin managed to think with a dull smile before all reasonable thought shut down and all he knew was purple…

The fine print

Twin felt the sensation of movement somewhere far away from him, being lifted into the air and floating on a bed of squishy comfort. Twin hummed, the purple surrounding him caressing and kissing his body and mind all over, not a flicker of him was left unloved by the delicious and delightful dripleaf drink. It was a short lifetime before Twin was placed back down on another seat and he began to feel a heavy aired heat against him but it was soon beaten back by something cool, smooth and comfortable. Twin smiled, his face smothered in whatever it had landed in, which occasionally shifted left and right against his face and Twin couldn’t help but nuzzle it affectionately. He could hear somepony having a conversation, his name was mentioned but Twin cared little for what was going on outside his own mental paradise, he was simply marvelling at how something so simple felt so delightful! Then the world began to crumble, Twin let out a quiet groan of longing as he tried to catch the broken fragments of the purple bliss, slithering out of him like chipped paint falling from a wall… but it was hopeless, Twin just couldn’t keep it held together by force of will because that was what was causing the world to break. This loop of wanting to hold together by forcing it with his mind caused Twin’s mind to work harder, waking up faster which in turn broke the purple away faster until it was but a distinct swirl floating in Twin’s head.

Twin sat up, glancing around where he was seated. He wasn’t in the restaurant anymore, Twin could tell from the change in décor, the fact all the windows were gone and the pulsating lights and loud vibrating music from across a nightclub dancefloor. Twin looked around, heavy smoke hung at seat height, just barely below where Twin was laying and he could physical see it swirl up his nose as he breathed in, tickling his airway causing his heart to flutter. Dripleaf. The realisation of the smoke’s content made Twin try to dunk his head in, as if it were a pool of life saving water, but this brought something to Twin’s attention as he felt his throat close up from pushing down so hard. Twin pushed himself back up, freeing his airway, as he inspected the surrounding white and red coils slipping around his seat. Twin looked up as he heard a shift of movement and Ruby smiled.

“Good, you’re awake, at last, I was worried I might have to carry you home.” Ruby said casually before standing up.

“W-wait we’re leaving? But, the smoke!” Twin pleaded as he was lifted up above it into the air.

“I don’t think you need another dripleaf blackout so soon after the last one,” Ruby teased, Twin’s desperation vividly on display for her amusement as Twin was dragged to the door.

“N-no please Ruby! Just a little!” Twin begged, placing his hooves together as if praying for the lamia’s approval.

“Maybe later, if you obey, I’ll give you something stronger.” Ruby suggested and Twin nodded, Ruby’s wording bouncing clear through him as all Twin registered was he would get more dripleaf!

Twin covered his eyes by holding a leg out towards the sky as the pair exited the club Ruby had brought them too, it was late sunset and the fading light was beaming right at the doorway. Twin groaned covering his eyes entirely with both hooves as Ruby set him down, tugging him along to get him moving.

“Come along Twinwing, don’t lag behind.” Ruby said cheerfully.

“Yes Ruby, sorry.” Twin said blinking back tears as his eyes adjusted to being open again.

The streets of Canterlot Ruby chose for them were eerily quiet, the distant murmur of the city’s life could be heard just a few houses away, but it felt like there was a massive wall separating them. Sometimes quite literally. Ruby remained silent and Twin didn’t dare risk his opportunity for dripleaf by breaking it.

“Your punishment is tonight,” Ruby reminded Twin in a casual tone and his stomach dropped. He wouldn’t be getting whatever Ruby promised during that “I have a few things I need to sort out, until then sit in you room and wait you’ll know when I’m ready.” Ruby said, but Twin was still aware enough to be confused by this statement.

“I’ll know?” Twin asked, but Twin would receive no answer as Ruby merely smiled at him knowingly.

Silence once more crept in, hanging over them until Ruby’s mansion came into view atop the other houses, a couple more streets and turns and the pair were stood before the medieval gate as it rolled up to admit them back in. Ruby paused at the barracks and unceremoniously dumped Twin out of her coils. Twin said nothing, not a word of complaint as he calmly walked back into the mansion, up the stairs and into his room where Twin proceeded to sit in the dead middle of his room and wait…

“This is foolish, can’t I do something to pass the time at least?” Twin thought as he watched the door with attentive eyes.

Twin shook his head to his own thoughts which quickly shifted back to the restaurant, the numbness and sensitivity of dripleaf surging through his body, how Ruby’s coils tickled every nerve into screaming, how his mind simply drooled, all thoughts silent. Twin even recalled, or he thought he did, stepping up onto the dancefloor with Ruby and twisting and twirling his own body to heavy music as she strangled him, like a stress toy. If he just waited patiently for Ruby to get him she might squeeze him again like she had to the rising beta of the music, lifting him off his hooves... Twin took a sharp breath and continued to wait, his irritation having drowned away as he spurred himself on with his memories.

Twin sat and watched the door, the shadows around him moving, growing longer and longer before the sun had faded entirely, the sky turning a burning orange before the blackness of night swept over. Twin didn’t even get up to turn on the light, his eyes adjusting to the darkness. Drowsiness might have crept in but Twin would simply retreat into his mind and find himself spurred awake by excitement, any moment Ruby would return to collect him, bring dripleaf with her… maybe raw or pure liquid, a shadow of purple…

“Twinwing,” Twin stiffened, sitting up straighter as if he’d just been turned to living stone. Twin glanced around, hesitating, then stood up and pushed the door open.

Twin sighed sadly as the empty hallway greeted him, no giant, beautiful snake waiting for him with an inviting glittering embrace. Twin shook his head, wasn’t he thinking about dripleaf? The thought spurred his love of the substance for a moment before Ruby once more slithered to the forefront of Twin’s mind, her thick, twisting coils slithering over his bare body, rubbing and smothering him in their dominating embrace. Twin held his head, sitting down, the door still held open, confused… Ruby was dangerous… dangerously attractive. Twin covered both temples of his head, something was perfect… wait no… that was it… wasn’t it?

“Twinwing!” The voice was louder and Twin found himself on his hooves this time without realising he’d stood up. Twin stuck his head out, glancing left and right, he was certain Ruby had called him and he should go to her… but, where was she?

As Twin pondered this he heard the soothing voice for a third time “Twinwing.” In a soft hum and Twin was moving forward, unsure where his legs were leading him but he was certain it ended with Ruby.

Twin smiled cheerfully as he began to ascend up towards Ruby’s room, somehow certain she had turned in for the night, and yet he also knew he was expected and wanted. This allowed Twin to confidently knock on Ruby’s door and when he heard he voice physically he shivered with a spark of electrical bliss.

“Come in, Twinwing.” Twin pushed opened the door and flushed.

Ruby, as per usual, was stretched out over her bed, except this time she was wide awake to begin with and her pony body was laying at the foot of the bed, resting atop her coils as she faced the door, a sly grin stretching over her mouth as her magic took hold of the door handle and slipped it shut behind Twin. Twin didn’t so much as look back, his eyes too busy soaking in Ruby’s appearance, her clean white fur flowing down her body into her coils, the red seeping between the perfectly canvas clean white scales, Ruby’s mane bright like a blazing fire and her slitted purple eyes so much like dripleaf, drawing Twin in.

Ruby sat upright tapping her tail with a hoof and Twin nodded in understanding, stepping forward and hoping up with a brisk jump onto Ruby’s coils, his hooves sinking into their weight and slipping between the gaps. Twin’s smile grew, his want for dripleaf being pushed away as he felt the coils grip and slip over his body.

“Go ahead, roll on them if you like, get tangled up.” Ruby offered freely, merely watching as Twin unceremoniously flopped forward onto his belly.

Twin laughed cheerfully and rolled over onto his back, grabbing a random coil and slipping it onto his belly, hugging it and kissing it with another cheerful laugh as it slithered through his grip, looping over his right back thigh and tightening. Twin sighed, leaning back as he gripped the coil, rolling to his right until he reached the edge of the bed, a bundle of coils clinging to his body. Twin stood up the best he could, his hind legs locked together and his left wings subdued underneath thick scales. Twin dragged himself back over and rolled again, Ruby casually pushing her tail under Twin as a counter force so he simply spun around and around in one place, like a fly tumbling under a spider as it worked to cover it in silk. Eventually, the trail of coils became so entangled around Twin’s body he was unable to roll any further, his hind hooves hovering off the ground by a few feet of scaly fat and muscle, his body hidden beneath a wall of coils from hoof to neck, only Twin’s head and front right leg were free, Twin absentmindedly rubbing Ruby’s tail with his free hoof loving the sensation of scales against his frog. Ruby casually dragged Twin back over to lay at her lap, staring down at him with a grin as her tail began to tighten. Twin playfully let his hoof rest on the coil around his neck, tugging half-heartedly as his mouth opened up, gasping for breath. Ruby wasn’t squeezing tight enough to constrict any air from Twin yet, but it was still fun.

“Want to make that face without the act?” Ruby asked and Twin nodded furiously.

Ruby loosened her grip, shifting her coils so Twin rocked around a little then tightened all at once, a series of soft clicks from Twin’s body reaching his ears as several bones popped into place with a wave of relaxing bliss. Twin gasped, both from his lungs being compressed and the sensation of his body and muscles melting into Ruby’s controlling and dominating grip. Twin’s mouth hung open, air barely whistling down as he began to drool, mouth held open wide as his eyes rolled up.

“Y-yes…” Twin croaked as Ruby relaxed her grip, lifting Twin up as her coils began to undulate back and forth all over his body. Twin’s eyes half closed, his pupils just visible under the lids as he let out a series of shaky moans “Mnnnn… Oh, Celestia Ruby… this feels amazing…” Twin whispered as he tried to focus on her but a quick rub or two over his spine prevented Twin from regaining control of his motor functions.

“It’s about to feel even better,” Ruby hummed with a smirk as she relaxed her grip, Twin taking a moment to recover.

“Really, you can manage that?” Twin asked, managing, even for a moment, to focus his gaze on Ruby’s eyes.

“Indeed, the process of me breaking you into a will-less slave will feel delightful.” Ruby said, caressing Twin’s mane, as if this were the same kind of topic you might have in a conversation over biscuits and coffee.

However, despite her tone, this fact reveal was too blatant for Twin to overlook and, despite his brain wanting to go back to the coils, his head shifted upright, looking at Ruby “W-wait what do you mean?” Twin asked, freezing.

Ruby giggled innocently “My, you are a bit dense… or perhaps you’re just that susceptible to it all… let your hoof hang by your side.” Ruby ordered and before Twin could ask what she meant his leg felt like iron and flopped down, hanging towards the ground. Twin stared, unable to understand what was happening “You see, it hasn’t taken me long with you, barely a couple of days, and I can already manipulate your body…” Ruby placed both hooves on the sides of Twin’s head, making him look back up at Ruby “You see, Twinwing, I do hire regular staff, but some… some I like to indulge myself with, either as meals or playthings… like you. Maybe you haven’t yet realised so I’ll explain; lamias are able to mentally control ponies, taking over their mind, thoughts, desires and so on… I can make you think what I want you to think, make you say and desire certain things… I can alter your mind to suit my whims… that is your punishment and your reward, and you’re going to enjoy every second of what’s left of your mind cracking and submitting.” Ruby grinned at Twin’s shocked expression “Try to keep me entertained.” Ruby said with a light tap to Twin’s nose.

“W-wait… you… this whole time?” Twin managed to stammer out, his brain trying to digest what he had been presented with, at the same time trying to resist slipping back into the relentless massage.

“Well, I was debating it when you first arrived as I am short of staff and those I… ah, ‘improve’ aren’t very speedy afterwards, but you were just so naive and adorable to play with, I just couldn’t resist.” Ruby said as she slithered around to the side, dragging Twin into the middle of the beg of coils.

“Y-you can’t do this!” Twin tried to shout but it came out as more a desiring sigh.

“Oh, but I can, after all we run Equestria now, this is the norm. You’d know if you had stuck around the past two years.” Ruby proclaimed with a smirk, waiting for the next bit.

“I’m… I’m not just going to let you do this to me!” Twin flushed, pretty certain his own brain was on Ruby’s side even if he wasn’t right now.

Ruby grinned, pleased to hear that bold claim “You will, soon enough… perhaps sooner, you don’t sound very certain… nor have you even made an attempt to resist yet.” Ruby said glancing down at Twin’s motionless body.

“I er… I am I just… you… you could snap me like a toothpick!” Twin tried to argue his reasoning.

“That fact never really processes in a highly panicked mind, in fact…” Ruby shifted her tail, Twin looking down as they moved as Ruby held a coil to his chest “Your heartrate has barely risen,” Ruby slid down to Twin’s waist before resting her pony body atop Twin’s, her face just inches from his “I wonder if you are just in denial or are you looking forward to it?” Ruby asked, only Twin’s breathing giving any indication he might be afraid, although after the recent constriction he might just be recovering, why wasn’t he sure of this himself!?

“I… I would never look forward to enslavement!” Twin said loudly, though his voice failing to reach a shout.

Ruby chuckled “Hehe, I find that hard to believe, but I guess you can very simply prove me wrong by merely resisting my attempts to enslave you. Let’s start by seeing if you still find my body attractive.” Twin flushed, unsure how he felt about this statement, but there a clear interest in wanting to know what Ruby had planned, for better or worse.

Ruby glanced down at Twin’s lower body as she slowly let her tail slither around, growing thicker as Twin was forced into a more rigid position to accommodate the increasing scale mass that was compressing around him. Twin started down, his head unable to turn to look down now, as Ruby began to tighten her grip and press in, rubbing and caressing all over Twin’s helpless body. Twin meekly, still trying to show he wasn’t on board with this, patted and tugged on Ruby’s coil with his free leg, but the coils were so thick and heavy he was literally only patting them at this point. Ruby tugged Twin upright and a coil slipped up between Twin’s legs, forming a seat. Twin let out a mouse-like squeak but looked away at Ruby’s grin. However, this merely spurred Ruby on and she began to rub back and forth over Twin’s crotch.

“Come on, I know you want me big guy.” Ruby hummed and Twin flushed, Ruby’s sing-song like voice was beautiful, his mind began to imagine her whispering to him sensually whilst fucking deep into her squishy coils…

“Nuh-no!” Twin cried as his body betrayed him and his cock began to push up against the coil in front, his balls resting on the coil beneath them as his cock twitched and throbbed, stretching out and drooling as it stroked Ruby’s coil with its flexing.

Ruby shifted the cocoon around, easily grabbing Twin’s helpless front leg and forcing it to his side, using the freed-up space to expose his cock between the two coils over his waist. Ruby slithered around and inspected her latest prize “Wow, look at how eager he is to be made into my plaything,” Ruby said giving it a stroke with her hoof, Twin biting his lip to remain silent. Ruby sat up, facing Twin “Would you like to be my slave now, Twinwing?” Ruby asked in a quiet whisper.

“No!” Twin said with a crack in his voice as he tried to hide his face, but also look at the same time, showing he was interested, willing or not.

Ruby chuckled and pushed Twin down onto his back straight out like a board before lifting him up and spinning him around so his belly faced the ground, hanging in mid-air before Ruby as she settled down to watch underneath Twin’s belly. Ruby’s horn began to glow as she took hold of Twin’s cock tip, flicking it around and pushing against its pulsing throbs before ensnaring it in a full cocoon of magic. Twin felt his whole cock push in as Ruby gripped it, tugging it forward and back.

“I-I’m not a cow!” Twin pleaded with a shaky groan.

Ruby laughed “You look like one, though with only one udder to be fair.” Ruby commented as she began to push her magic in “I wonder what would happen if I rock it left and right…” Ruby hummed as her horn glowed a little brighter.

Twin yipped, feeling the magical cock sleeve begin to vibrate against him, Ruby also working up a second magical grip which tugged and pulled on his cock head, tickling the sensitive nerves as Twin began to drool precum from his cock head. Ruby’s tail tip curled up the bottom of Twin’s cocoon up to his balls and looped a figure of eight around them, squeezing them slightly.

“Boy they feel ready to burst.” Ruby said grinning, but Twin remained silent, having closed his eyes. Ruby glanced up at Twin and stopped, her magic dimming away, only her tail tip slithered back and forth around Twin’s balls. Twin cried out, groaning as his hips thrust downward trying to get some friction on something that no longer existed.

“W-w-why!?” Twin asked hopelessly.

“I thought you said you didn’t want this, so I guess you don’t want to cum either.” Ruby hummed, watching Twin’s precum drool slowly down to the coils beneath, splattering them with their sticky warmth.

Twin wriggled and struggled but remained steadfastly silent “I didn’t say I was going to stop though, just that I won’t let you cum.” Ruby said cheerfully as her tail tip dropped from caressing Twin’s balls and began to stroke the underside of his shaft.

Twin wriggled as he groaned, humping against Ruby’s slow teasing rubs, she couldn’t be serious could she!? It was bad enough that Ruby was directly threatening to enslave him to her manipulative sexual control but this... Twin whimpered shaking his head, he wasn’t going to be this easy for Ruby to slither her thick tail over him!

Was he?

Ruby smirked and her gaze flicked down to Twin’s cock as she disappeared from his view beneath him “Mmmm, there’s something so nice about fresh prey,” Ruby hummed letting her forked tongue hang out as she licked over his penis tip, slurping down all the precum presented to her “Hmm… saltier than normal, still alright.” Ruby commented before looping her tongue around Twin’s cock and rubbing back and forth.

Twin tensed, his eyes widened as he let out a gargled cry of shock. How could a tongue do something like this!? It didn’t seem physically possible and yet… here Ruby was milking him without care for the normal laws of biology. Twin groaned shutting his eyes as his head rested against the coil under his neck, Twin gave another squeak as Ruby slid her mouth over Twin’s cock. It was strange being in a lamia’s mouth, it was cold like a sex toy yet her breath and pulsating throat felt very much alive and active, alongside her tongue holding Twin’s penis in a vice like grip, running against the base of his shaft excitedly. Ruby began to use her magic to fondle Twin’s balls again then pulled back before he could reach climax. Ruby continued to, slowly, tenderise his bollocks as Twin panted.

“This isn’t fair!” Twin moaned struggling to escape or get more out of Ruby’s minimal sexual stimulus.

“Would you like to be my slave now, Twinwing?” Ruby asked again, licking her lips “You can cum in my mouth.” She offered leaning back to look at him, holding her fleshy red maw open to show it off to him.

Twin shivered, rocking from side to side “I… I don’t want to be a slave.” He mumbled weakly, staring into Ruby’s mouth watching her throat contact and shift as she breathed in.

Ruby leaned up, flicking her tongue against Twin’s lips causing him to open his mouth slightly and invite her in, the lamia gorging herself on the interior of Twin’s mouth, wrapping up his tongue and making him swallow part of the huge appendage, blocking his breathing for a moment, before Ruby pulled back out, Twin’s head flopping down as he gasped for breath.

“You sure aren’t acting like it,” Ruby noted “You didn’t speak a word of protest over that.” Ruby chuckled and Twin flushed shaking his head silently “Go on, just say yes,” Ruby said nuzzling Twin’s cheek with a smirk but Twin shook his head again, no longer trusting his voice to sound opposing to Ruby’s suggestions “Alright perhaps this might change your mind,” Ruby said ominously as she once again disappeared beneath Twin.

Twin inadvertently began to hold his breath in anticipation as Ruby let her breath whistle out between her lips before taking a large gulp of air and shoving her face forward. Twin screamed as Ruby pushed her head further forward than any pony alive could manage, a visible bulge forcing out against the underside of her throat as she reached Twin’s cock base and balls, only being stopped by the awkward angle, but her tongue slipped out finishing the gap by slipping around the end of Twin’s cock where it joined his lower waist and up to his balls which she wrapped up and began to squeeze forcefully, kneading them hungrily. With Ruby’s tongue being so long, it didn’t hinder her as she began to rock her head back and forth, slurping on Twin’s cock as her throat, bulging with his length, undulated as it tried to swallow Twin’s penis down.

Twin’s eyes became crossed, his mouth hanging open in silence, taking a sudden shuddering breath as his brain, helpfully, reminded him he needed oxygen. Ruby began to slow and Twin knew she was going to pull out in a moment “OKAY! FUCK, TAKE MY MIND JUST LET ME CUM DON’T TEASE ME AGAIN, PLEASE!” Twin cried trying desperately to fight against Ruby’s restrictive hold to thrust into her mouth.

Ruby hummed in victory and began to pump and rock her head as fast as she could, using Twin’s cocoon to thrust him in and down, beating his cock head down her throat as Twin gave shaky, broken moans with each puppeted thrust. Twin gave a short series of pants then tensed, grunting before relaxing as he gave a shaky relieved gasp. Ruby hummed in surprised delight from the force of Twin’s orgasm, feeling the underside of his shaft bulge out as it delivered each load. Ruby pulled back to the tip of her prize, slurping and suckling on Twin’s cock, gulping cum down even as it began to spill over and onto the coils below. Ruby’s face dripping with what she failed to get down, she pulled back panting and licked her face with her tongue with a grin.

“Delicious,” Ruby complimented the helpless stallion as she licked around his shaft to get him all clean. Ruby leaned back, lifting the coil that had been catching Twin’s precum earlier “I’m going to enjoy you.” Ruby said licking her tail clean, Twin watching with rapt attention, before slipping it back under to catch anymore.

“W-what now, Ruby?” Twin asked softly.

“Mistress,” Twin looked confused “I want you to call me Mistress from now on, Twinwing, understand?” Ruby asked and Twin looked sideways, Ruby tightened her tail, pushing her coils into Twin’s ribs, forcing his head to turn back to look at her, pushing into the underside of his face “Understand?”

“Yes… Mistress…” Twin wheezed with a submissive nod, his ears folding back, further instilling Ruby’s dominance over him.

“Good boy,” Ruby cooed relaxing her grip “Now let’s continue.” She proclaimed with a smile.

“W-wait, I just came I can’t go again-guck… Mistress.” Twin added, already forgetting.

“You’re going soft on me? I can fix that,” Ruby licked her lips then rolled her tongue over her gums, making motions with her mouth as if biting something invisible, Twin getting a clear view of Ruby’s fangs as they slipped out of their receptacles in her gums from her biting.

Ruby licked her gums again except this time they were now covered in an acid green venom, her fangs dripping with more. Twin shut his mouth quickly, whimpering “It’s not painful, you might even enjoy it if you let it… now open your mouth… unless you’d prefer an injection?” Twin shook his head and Ruby cupped his cheeks, Twin, nervously, opening his mouth.

Ruby cupped her lips to Twin’s, humming softly as the stallion had his head tilted upward, Ruby was surprisingly gentle when she wanted to be, her lips soft and full rubbing over his as she held his mouth open, her tongue rolling into Twin’s mouth and caressing the top of his own tongue causing him to gulp. Twin felt the venom from Ruby’s mouth drip down and it had a strong acidic taste to it, like raw spirits but Ruby’s gentle rubbing and kissing helped nudge him into gulping it down readily. Ruby was right, he was enjoying this, now he was relaxing… Twin mentally shook himself out of his stupor; No! He couldn’t give into this, couldn’t let Ruby make a slave out of him he… of crap the venom…

Twin let out a long moan around Ruby’s lips until she parted, trailing green tinted saliva and venom “Sounds like it’s already working away at you, feels good, doesn’t it?” Ruby asked glancing underneath Twin, seeing his cock, halfway back inside his sheath, leap up and twitch as it shuddered, newly energised and eager, maybe even desperate, to keep going.

Twin felt his head swim, his vision oddly distorted at the edges, colours blurring together like wet paint dripping down a wall, as he let his chin rest on the coil cocoon “What did you just do to me?” Twin asked weakly. Ruby showed no mercy though, clenching her coils in as Twin’s wings pressed against their prison “Mistress!” Twin croaked.

Ruby relaxed her grip and smiled “You’ll get there, and to answer your question it’s just a little sexual stimulus venom to keep you… ‘up’ during my playtime. Don’t worry,” Ruby grinned at Twin who gulped “I’ll make you love it.” She proclaimed.

Ruby smoothly wrapped a trio of thin coils around Twin’s shaft and began to rub, the soft underbelly scales gliding over his cock as they rubbed him from shaft to tip. At times simply rocking back and forth, other times they would bunch up into a tight cocoon and rub forcefully and quickly, before relaxing out in a spiral up Twin’s cock merely squeezing and sliding back and forth, tugging on Twin’s penis skin as he was rubbed down. Twin grunted, clenching his teeth together as drool ran down the sides of his mouth, Ruby working him quickly, then at a snail’s pace, then rocketing off before returning to a snail’s pace again. Twin opened his mouth to plead, or scream in pleasure, but Ruby tightened her coils, shushing him each time. Finally, Twin remained silent, except for the noises Ruby consistently dragged out of his throat. With a smirk, Ruby let her coils follow Twin’s breathing, before tensing, only a little, causing Twin’s chest to be halted slightly, with every breath Ruby tensed and tightened more, Twin, already panting, having trouble regaining the oxygen his body needed… the oxygen his brain needed to think clearly, which was already difficult with Ruby’s venom burning through his nerves and cock.

Twin’s head flopped forward, looking down at the twisting coils around his cock, feeling a jump of pleasure and a tightness in the base of his waist as a dribble of precum slipped down onto Ruby’s coils. There was something so hot about watching the coils go up and down like a piston, sometimes gentle and slow and other time forceful and quick. Ruby pushed her taunt coils up and Twin looked up, wheezing now as his lungs had their capacity halved by this point. Ruby smiled at Twin, gently nuzzling him as the little trapped stallion moaned quietly before letting his mouth hang open, air whistling down the best it could as Ruby continued her predatory asphyxiation. Twin let out a gargled grunt as Ruby rocked Twin’s cock so fast her tail became a blur, unable to resist the sudden shift in extreme pleasure, Twin began to spew cum all over Ruby’s coils for a second time, resting his head on the coil pressing under his throat.

“Mmmm, look at how excited you got, so eager and desperate,” Ruby’s tongue flicked out of her mouth, tasting the scented mixture of cum, sweat and venom secreting from her catch, his breaths shallow and rapid. Ruby shifted her tail, for a brief moment, Twin’s breathing returning for one glorious breath before Ruby tightened her tail back to its original position with a groan and forceful sigh, Ruby was then able to shift Twin around into a seated position before her, Twin’s cock rubbing against the top and underside of the coil cocoon encompassing him. Ruby settled down to watch Twin as two coils rested above and below Twin’s cock, with only the dripping, cum coated tip, poking out. Ruby tightened her tail to match that of Twin’s cocoon and began to slide her tail back and forth, either together, one tail at a time, or against each other. Twin grunted, shaking his head desperately and Ruby hummed, enjoying Twin’s expressions as her tail continued to tighten.

“Muh… Mistress… I can… barely… breathe…” Twin pleaded and Ruby hummed in thought before relaxing her grip somewhat, not entirely, but enough Twin was able to recover “Thank… you… Mistress…” Ruby smiled as she leaned back.

Twin was made to kneel now, as if worshipping the giant snake before him as she slithered over his cock, the smooth, yet firm, scales rubbing over Twin’s cock were a unique experience, it wasn’t the soft red underbelly scales this time either, but the stronger, slightly rougher top white scales that made up most of Ruby’s body. Due to their texture, they were better at getting traction against Twin’s shaft and helped him edge closer and closer to orgasm. Twin even began to thrust a little, his cock head pushing forward or being mushed between scales before sliding free again. This took further energy from Twin’s already oxygen starved lungs as his vision began to swirl and turn fuzzy.

“I feel… weird…” Twin mumbled more to himself than Ruby, who could feel Twin’s heartbeat and breathing through her tail.

Ruby paused to think then grinned, sliding out of Twin’s field of view and lifting her tail up, waving it and curling it in mid-air “Focus on my tail for me Twinwing… that’s it, watch the pretty white and red mould together in their own little dance for you.” Twin grunted, tilting his head up, which felt like it was being tugged down by iron weights, looking at the swaying coils.

Although Twin’s vision was mostly blurred colour now he found himself easily able to focus on Ruby’s swaying coils, coming into fixed focus and yet they were relaxing to look at, easy to follow and soothing for his mind. Twin sighed, the coils seemed to even be settling his breathing as they twisted and curled, forming shapes curling around into hooks and spirals, silver moonlight dancing down the snow white and fiery red scales and into Twin’s eyes and brain, a gentle drop of cold water on his burning mind. Twin hummed as he felt the coils over his cock rub back and forth in tempo with the movements of the twisting coils and it felt good, really good, now he could relax.

Ruby smirked, Twin relaxing in her grip as she relaxed her vice grip on his lungs, Twin steadily breathing in as his mind remained sunk down but now it was due to much more pleasant factors than oxygen deprivation “Doesn’t it feel nice, your mind being lightly tickled and stroked, your cock jumping and drooling, my coils rubbing and sliding all over your helpless little body?” Twin sighed, Ruby was right, focusing on her swaying tail made him realise it did feel nice to be wrapped up again, his fear had ebbed away, he was calm… safe… he should just enjoy the pleasure…

“N…nuh… no… trick… I…” Twin groaned trying to shut his eyes, tilting his head down defiantly, however Ruby didn’t tighten her grip as Twin hoped so he could wrestle control back. Instead, her tail began to undulate up and down his body, rubbing over his muscles and pounding them into submission. Ruby pushed the coil under Twin’s head up, squishing into his cheeks playfully and Twin drooled, moaning quietly as any words of defiance got clogged in his throat.

“There, such a good little stallion, now why don’t you lie back down and relax, I have a reward for you for letting me play with your body.” Ruby said pulling back on Twin as if he were making a conscious effort to lie down.

Twin sighed as his cocoon rested against the many rising and falling coils covering Ruby’s massive bed, sinking so they encompassed his vision whichever way he looked. Ruby slid atop Twin, pushing down on his cocoon a little but not enough to reduce his breathing again. Ruby stretched her front legs over her head with a click and sighed before slamming them down on her tail either side of Twin’s head. Twin jumped a little at the lightning speed in Ruby as she licked her lips, the coil behind the top of Twin’s head pushing up so he looked down between the gap separating Ruby and Twin, the coils sliding over his cock gone. Ruby lowered her waist and, by extension, her upper tail down, closing the gap and rubbing the soft scales over the tip of Twin’s cock in small circles. The sensitive flesh jumped, trying to escape only resulting in higher waves of pleasure for the horny stallion to resist. Ruby rolled her waist down until Twin felt fur against his cock, Ruby pushed down a little more then slid forward, Twin watching as his cock reached the scales again, except this time a different kind of liquid began to dribble down onto his cock.

Twin gasped as he felt the cool liquid from Ruby’s pussy run down his heated shaft soothingly, he could just vaguely see where her scales had slid down, parting way to reveal her sex. Ruby smiled as he lower lips pampered Twin’s cock head with kissed as she rocked her body back and forth, rubbing her entrance over Twin’s teasingly.

Twin shut his eyes, gritting his teeth as the teasing pleasure began to overwhelm his deprived senses “Aaaahhhhh… Muh-Muh-Mistress, please… let me fuck you!” Twin begged desperately as the coils tightened firmly as he attempted to thrust upward.

A coil tapped the side of Twin’s head and he opened his eyes to the most wonderous display. Ruby’s snake slitted purple eyes were gone, replace instead with perfectly round rings of colour, flowing steadily over her eyes, encompassing them in their colour. Twin felt something tug on his mind and then form a hook and his head locked forward, unable to break eye contact. Twin knew something was wrong with this but… the stroking in his brain just felt so nice…

“I decide when you will enter me, this is your punishment, remember? Any input you have is nullified as a result. You are here for my pleasure; your own pleasure is simply a pleasant by-product. Do not overstep your boundaries again, understand?” Twin felt the coils around him rub and gyrate and he easily nodded up and down. Ruby’s flowing eyes slowing before her original purple and black slit grew back out from a black dot.

“Wait, I didn’t agree to that! She made me nod!” Twin thought but remained where he was, after all he’d just agreed to Ruby he wouldn’t attempt to gain pleasure during his severe and justified punishment “What… what did she just do……… I like it… Wait, no I… don’t?” Twin wanted to hold his head, his own thoughts seemed to be having thoughts that weren’t his own and it was hurting his brain to try and focus on them.

“Mistress… Ru… Ruby…” Twin grunted “What did… you…” Twin’s speech was slightly slurred and slow, even if he didn’t realise it, to him he was speaking fast and swiftly with desperation, not tired sleepy need.

Ruby, however, smiled and slipped a coil over Twin’s forehead and temples, a nice soothing coolness spreading over his brain shushing his concerns “There, don’t worry about it, just focus on pleasing me. And you can do that by reacting to… this!” Ruby said lifting her waist up a little and then slamming down onto Twin’s cock, swallowing the entire thing within her snatch.

Twin’s mouth opened wide and a strangled moan floated out of his throat as he wriggled helplessly, his rear legs kicking as much as his confining coil tomb permitted, his upper body shuddering as his wings, yet again, tried to unfold. Ruby, however, allowed them this time to stretch out between a coil before trapping them at the base where the feathers were thinnest. However, Twin had just opened his wings out into a sea of slithering scaly coils which were eager to find something to loop themselves around. Twin’s panting accelerated higher and he struggled between Ruby’s command to just let her have her way and the mind-numbing sexual pleasure. Because of this mental confliction, Twin’s brain began to overload as it was being bombarded and pestered with too many messages to handle, his eyes half closed, one eye rolling up higher than the other giving Twin a funny look that made Ruby giggle.

“Too much at once? Or are you thinking too hard, just relax, don’t do anything, just let the pleasure wash over you… it’s easier that way.” Twin grunted, but the pain from over thinking began to ebb as he listened which encouraged him to do as Ruby suggested more, further instilling her control over him as Twin’s eyes rolled back down, focusing, somewhat, on Ruby’s face “See, isn’t that better?” Twin nodded dumbly, tongue hanging out of his mouth, as he felt his cock twitching and flaring slightly “Oh are you about ready to cum?” Ruby asked with a grin as she stopped, resting atop Twin as he twitched and quivered inside her vagina.

Ruby gently caressed her own lower body and upper coils, lightly tickling herself as she purred from the sensation of fullness Twin was providing. Meanwhile, the lust fuelled stallion was in turmoil as he felt his orgasm retreating back down “Mistress please don’t stop now!” He begged pushing against her tail to try and get the final thrust he needed.

Ruby stared down at Twin, resting her hooves atop the coils covering his chest as she leaned down, somewhat sliding her waist from side to side “I said before, this is for my pleasure,” Twin whimpered weakly, his ears folding down and Ruby hummed in thought “Well I suppose I can let you enjoy it a little bit more, if you want?” Twin nodded eagerly, disregarding what the consequences could be of Ruby’s intentions “Well, you asked for it, literally.” Ruby said with a happy hum.

Ruby slid her waist up and down, working her inner walls around Twin’s cock to edge him a little more, the stallion twitching before Ruby leaned down. She had to be careful, she wanted this orgasm to be at a specific moment. Ruby sighed and closed her eyes as if meditating, clearing her mind as she let Twin settle, relaxing her grip on him, listening to his heartbeat thumping against her scales. All forms of stimuli were on pause for the moment and Twin’s breathing, though no longer constrained, was still harsh and rapid, excited to know what Ruby was building up to. His mind in too much turmoil to figure it out himself.

Ruby opened her eyes and Twin found himself drawn to them, his mind telling him that this was what he needed to focus on to get the orgasmic relief he so desired right now. Ruby’s pupils began to dilate in her eyes, shrinking until the purple had been compressed inside the blackness of her pupil. Finally, there was only a tiny dot in the centre of Ruby’s eyes, quivering a little as she looked around, Twin watching with bated breath. The little dot then burst with two shades of blue, like water popping from a dam or balloon, flowing over Ruby’s eyes and encompassing the white, more rings followed, different colours now green and red. Twin blinked with a quizzical hum as he focused on the shifting colours, his brief experience with this magic not being enough to truly absorb how beautiful it was… how mysterious, captivating, dominating, addictive, commanding… d-dangerous!

Twin grunted, trying to shut his eyes as his brain mumbled about this being dangerous, he knew he shouldn’t look but it felt so good. With a hard, forceful tug, Twin shut his eyes, groaning as he felt a pain in his temples, as if he had a headache, except amplified several times. It felt like Twin had just wrenched his brain off a hook, tearing through it on the way, it was agony… and Twin knew he could sooth the pain he was now feeling, it would just take a glance. Ruby however seemed delighted at Twin’s little act of defiance.

“I’m impressed,” She admitted slowly raising herself up and then back down, slapping his cock deep inside as… a reward? Strange, defying her didn’t seem like a good way to earn affection, especially given the situation. Ruby chuckled knowingly “I’m not mad, no, in fact I’m pleased,” Twin felt Ruby shift, tugging his cock upward as she slid forward a little, threatening to slip out as she whispered into his ear “It just makes it so much fun when you finally give into my control.” Ruby cooed and Twin gulped quietly, Ruby tightening her tail around his neck possessively.

Twin let out a content sigh as Ruby slid back down, pushing his cock back inside her inviting, excited and welcoming vagina, the lamia chuckling at how open he had now become at his enjoyment of the situation. Twin shook his head, the pounding in his brain had dulled to something that was more towards extremely uncomfortable as opposed to painful… but Twin was twisting a question in his mind, was it the effect of looking away or had he just been enjoying it? He kept telling himself that was just Ruby’s lingering spell but he just couldn’t shake it away so easily and, hesitantly, he opened one eye to try. The whirlpool of colours was patiently waiting for Twin as his own pupil shrank upon contact, the discomfort being swept away like sand in a desert. Twin’s own eye began pulsing with a slow copy of Ruby’s colourful rings almost instantly as it opened as wide as possible without Twin’s say so. Twin wriggled and Ruby relaxed her coils around Twin’s neck, letting him turn his head far enough to break eye contact, but Twin’s eyelid refused to shut for several seconds, as if his nerves had disconnected from his brain. Ruby chuckled at Twin’s own mental mutiny. And Twin blushed as a result, or, at least, he would have if he wasn’t already flustered from fucking the lamia during this whole thing.

The sensation of discomfort returned, exactly the same as before, but having it be gone, even for a moment, made it feel even worse when it returned, and Ruby slowly riding up and down his length prevented Twin from regaining his wits and pushing past this fact, causing a mind breaking loop of pleasure and near irresistible desire. Twin grunted, shaking his head desperately as Ruby nuzzled his face, lightly kissing him until he opened his mouth, once again surrendering his tongue to hers for her pleasure. Twin moaned, his eyelids quivering as his temples pounded like drums… he could push past it, he just needed a few seconds to think clearly without the pain… just a few… seconds…

Twin cautiously opened one eye and sighed as the pain was once again cast away by the beautiful colours, Ruby was very close, still kissing Twin, and had to lean back for him to see the display fully and he hummed in thanks before realising what he’d done. With the pain gone he had been able to do what he wanted, to think, but this had cost him his ability to look away or close his eye, even turning his head provided fruitless now, just before Ruby’s eyes went out of view his head stopped moving, quivering as two pieces of his brain fought for control. Twin groaned, his head turning back to fully face Ruby and she grinned knowingly whilst Twin whimpered fearfully, she wasn’t really trying yet… she was taunting him, she had complete control of his focus and attention and thinking. What Twin had originally sought from this, was now even more difficult, unless it was focusing on how beautiful Ruby’s eyes were, how good they made him feel and how tight her pussy was squeezing his cock. Twin groaned, the colours were like a virus, infecting his mind through his eyes, which felt numb and yet sensitive, drinking in the colours, the world around Ruby blurring and shifting, twisting with the glow of Ruby’s eyes so his focus sank into her control further. The whole world was turning into Ruby’s eyes now and that was a sign Twin was losing his grip on reality, and his own will.

Twin wriggled in Ruby’s grip, or more accurately; he shifted, his motor functions hardly responding atop the strong grip Ruby possessed making movement near impossible to begin with. Twin whimpered as he tried to wrestle his brain into working for a moment, he still had one eye shut, as such half of his brain was unaffected, or at least less so than the other half for the moment, allowing him to manage.

“Ruh…Ruby… Pleashhh-please… stahhhh… ahhhh…mmmm… stop…p-please…” Even Twin knew his speech was slurred and slow, his mouth felt like jelly when it moved, half solid… it just wanted to hang open and drool out his thoughts, the swirling colours whisking them away into comforting, scaly bliss… No! Don’t think like that… don’t focus on how amazing this feels…

Ruby raised an eyebrow, humming as Twin shuffled in her coils, his head leaning forward to get closer now, Twin unaware he was doing so as he was unable to focus on where he had started, as far as he was aware he had been sat like this from the start. Twin’s ‘struggles’ finally ended and his left eyelid twitched, threatening to open “Alright!” Ruby said with a cheerful tone, her eyes pulsing to dual empty white rings, spreading out as the black dot of her eyes returned then grew back into her pupils.

“NO!” Twin cried as his other eye opened lurching forward as if trying to chase after the colourful rings. The force of his movement was enough to actually push against Ruby’s coils so he could almost touch her nose with his. Twin looked very bizarre, his right eye was still pulsing colourful rings whilst his left was his normal hazel brown, although somewhat dilated as well.

Twin relaxed, leaning back into Ruby’s grip as she smirked “No? But you just told me to stop, don’t tell me you now want me to make you my obedient little cock toy? To make your mind melt from those beautiful blissful colours?” Ruby asked tugging Twin back down, Ruby setting a steady tempo of rising and falling on Twin, the silence between them speaking filled with quiet gasps, moans and damp lewd slapping.

“No… I mean yes-no! Argh! You’re in my head!” Twin accused, confused about what was happening. Twin opened his mouth to try again when a coil slipped over it, cutting him off.

“Let me just ask you this, Twinwing, were you enjoying it? My hypnosis, I mean,” Ruby smiled and Twin nodded “Do you want to feel it again, stronger, every nerve in your body singing, your mind silent but for whatever I let in?” Twin wriggled nervously “Let me put it to you this way, when I take over your mind you will have no will, no thoughts, no fears or regrets… you simply float in a sea of bliss. I control and command you, anything you do is my fault, you have no responsibilities or standards to uphold anymore, you just enjoy yourself… do you want that?” Ruby hummed softly, Twin’s ears quivering as she spoke. Twin gave a tiny nod “Okay, mouth closed this time, unless it’s to moan or drool out your thoughts for me, okay? Let’s finish up!”

Ruby blinked just once and the pulsating rings engulfed her pupils. Twin didn’t have the will to shut his eyes, even if he did he wouldn’t have been fast enough to manage it before the mental hook snagged his mind again “Ru-” Twin began as his self-preservation instincts kicked in, but Ruby placed a coil over his lips and he fell into silence from the unspoken command.

Twin’s eyes drooped a little as he became increasingly comfortable with the hypnosis dominating his mind. Fewer and fewer thoughts managed to form, except those complimenting on how nice this all felt; his brain numb and limbs slow and heavy… yet he felt so sensitive, Ruby had resumed riding him, faster than before and steadily gaining speed and he was taking in every little detail. The way her vagina tightened on his tip to prevent him from escaping, the soothing coolness of her insides against his heated shaft, Ruby’s scales rubbing back and forth as if she were stroking or petting him lovingly, the way her coils consistently tugged him up a little so he was almost thrusting, except without the choice to do so. That little realisation at the end made him hum happily, he had no choice… Ruby made those, he just went along for the ride, doing whatever pleased her… of course he would still try hard, it would be rude not to be thankful for this freedom, this pleasure, it was so much he could barely contain it! Twin then felt Ruby’s coils suddenly tighten around his body, especially tight around his throat, cutting off his air. Twin’s eyes opened wide as he let out a cute little whistle of air around the fat coil gripping his mouth and finally got the desired orgasm he’d wanted from a combination of his mind melting away, Ruby’s increase in speed riding him and the sudden shock from asphyxiation breaking his concentration. The sensation of pumping his new Mistress full of cum finally broke Twin’s mind, a chime like a bell sounded in his mind and Twin stiffened, going rigid like a plank of wood, his eyes started racing with colourful rings, faster than Ruby’s own eyes and the sensation of each string of cum leaving him and entering his Mistress’ snatch sent shockwaves of pleasure unrivalled from any of Twin’s previous indulgences through his body, this further instilled his submission and addiction to the seductive snake. Ruby knew, as Twin continued to spurt cum inside her, bloating up her vagina with stallion cream until it dripped out, she had complete command over this helpless pegasus now. He was hers to do with as she pleased!

Ruby rocked back and forth on Twin’s cock, her scales rubbing against Twin’s waist, getting her full worth of the stallion’s cream before he finally let out a strangled groan, his cock still quivering and eager to keep going. Ruby smirked, she was still rather eager, and said eagerness was dripping down Twin’s coated shaft.

“A little unfair, cumming before your Mistress.” Ruby commented as she tugged the coil from Twin’s mouth.

“Sorry, Mistress, it was just too much, it all felt so good I couldn’t take you squeezing me.” Twin said apologetically, his pulsing eyes focusing on her face, if his pupils were visible he would appear to be looking through her, at something only he could see within her. The right to rule his every whim.

“Mmmm, it’s okay,” Twin sighed, a dopey smile stretching over his lips at not doing anything wrong “But will you make it up to me for being naughty, won’t you?” Twin nodded.

“Of course, Mistress! I’d do anything to make you happy as payment for making me feel so good!” Twin proclaimed without missing a beat.

“Wonderful,” Ruby began to slither her coils off Twin’s body, the stallion looking down as his body was revealed, shocked, as if he had been seen looking indecent in public.

“Wait, you said I didn’t do anything wrong! Please don’t uncoil me! Your scales feel so smooth and soft!” Twin pleaded hugging a coil tight to keep it from escaping.

Ruby pushed Twin’s chin up with the coil still looped around his throat, Ruby’s eyes pulsed with more hypnotic rings as she spoke “Don’t worry, Twinwing, you only need to make me happy, my control can wrap you up just as tight and snug, your thoughts binding you too me. And I promise you both that you will enjoy this and that I will coil you back up when we’re done, so just be a good boy and obey.” Ruby hummed smiling as Twin fell silent and still, his head flopping against the coil he was still loosely gripping, drooling a little until Ruby shut his mouth.

Twin cooed at Ruby’s gentle touch and nodded “I’ll be a good boy… and obey…” Twin mumbled in quiet monotone, letting go of the coil he was gripping which slithered around him at his hooves with all the others.

Twin was still stood in knee high coils, his cock, still hard from the venom and hypnosis cocktail going on inside him, brushing against the coils making him twitch and bite his lip. Ruby carefully wrapped up Twin’s back legs, up to the base of his thighs, gripping tightly, Ruby then pushed Twin upright, her coils acting as support for the stallion to remain standing without worry of falling over or being uncomfortable to compensate for the unbalancing stance. Ruby nodded approvingly and grabbed Twin’s front legs with two coils, tugging them outward so he couldn’t use them, before sliding behind him. Ruby slid over and down Twin’s right shoulder, down his body so she was hanging upside down momentarily, her thick upper tail and lamia vagina slithering over Twin’s body and waist, the smell of her sex wafting up Twin’s nose exited him, until it reached his cock. Ruby settled her pony body down on top of her own coils, at a curved ninety-degree angle, glancing back at Twin, uncoiling his front legs.

“Ravage me, Twinwing! Thrust as fast and hard as you can into your Mistress” Ruby ordered and Twin nodded grabbing the coil pressing into his chest tightly and slamming his cock into Ruby unceremoniously.

Twin rocked his hips back and forth as fast as he could, tugging on Ruby’s tail so it slapped back and forth causing him to enter and exit his Mistress all that much faster, his wings beatings behind him uselessly as Twin tried his best to satisfy Ruby to the full extent of his abilities. Ruby grabbed hold of a coil she was resting on, squeezing it with her own hooves as her eyes rolled up, mouth hanging open as she drooled panting in time to each thrust into her passage. The sound of Ruby being satisfied sent several hypnotically laced messages to Twin’s brain, rewarding and praising him for obeying Ruby’s command, the sudden burst of mental euphoria caused him to orgasm, filling Ruby up as cum quickly spooled out, dripping down Ruby’s coils.

Twin briefly stopped his thrusting, his cock slammed deep inside Ruby as he filled her but the lamia wasn’t having it “Don’t slow down!” She commanded giving his neck a tight, slightly painful, squeeze before Twin set off going again, breathing harshly as he pushed his body to satisfy Ruby.

Ruby groaned, feeling a rising tightness in her waist, a sharp nerve-wracking tingling and then… “I… I’m going to cum! You’re going to make your Mistress cum fucking me so hard Twinwing!” Ruby cried before burying her head in her own coils, crying out as she finally got her own desired orgasm, squirting all over Twin’s cock and waist due to the angle she was being fucked from.

Ruby, her legs, body and long trailing tail shaking uncontrollably, raised her head just enough to speak “Twinwing, cum! Cum right now inside me!” Ruby commanded and Twin felt a strange message compelling his body to be awash with pleasure, his cock starting to spurt out more stallion cream before it had finished its work around his mushy brain. Twin smiled dumbly as he rocked slowly inside his moaning Mistress, he could feel her walls compressing and massaging his cock, milking him for his seed. Even after Ruby had stopped cumming, sighing into the afterglow, Twin continued to spurt and cum more into Ruby’s snatch, unable to stop without permission.

“Okay, Twinwing… you can stop now… good boy.” Ruby said as Twin finally ceased his thrusting and constant orgasm. He was drenched in sweat, smelling strongly of salt and Ruby smiled as she slid forward off his worn-out shaft. Ruby’s upper tail plopped down onto the rest of her coils as Ruby panted quietly “Twinwing,” Ruby beckoned and the stallion slipped down onto all fours, Rube’s brace coils relaxing their grip so he could shuffle forward “Be a good slave and wrap yourself up next to me… I’m too tired now…” Ruby ordered and Twin simply flopped down, grabbed a coil and managed to drag it over himself as he rolled over beside Ruby, who shuffled about to get comfortable as she snuggled up to him, despite what she had said, Ruby did possess enough strength left to flick her coils over them both like a blanket before passing out, Twin, with no further orders, soon following suit as the relaxing nature of the hypnosis ran its course.

True hiring

Within the coils of Equestria’s alpha predator, Twin slept peacefully, Ruby’s coils occasionally slithered over his body. Twin’s dreams were plain and yet perfect. He was just sat in the middle of empty air, the world around him reflecting his mind; pulsating, colourful, dominating, hypnotic rings. The only thing of note other than the beautiful horizon, were the coils wrapped around Twin, hiding all but his head as he sat watching the world peacefully with a wide empty minded grin. Eventually, however, Ruby’s influence began to wane, the rings slowed, decreasing in number, their ethereal light dimming. Twin didn’t seem to notice but he very suddenly just slipped out of Ruby’s coils, falling down inside them, before opening his eyes, wide awake. Twin hadn’t been shocked away, shaken or anything, he had simply awoken, his body tingling, mind silent and perfectly awake. Twin vaguely thought how this had to be the single best night’s sleep he had ever experienced, and cooed happily, the noise causing Ruby to shuffle, nuzzling her pet as the coils that had gravitated to him in the night tightened over their prize. Twin had a flicker of doubt over the word describing himself but easily shoved it aside, smiling. He didn’t care now, he was still here, safe and sound and very much not eaten, he wasn’t quite ready to spoil the moment.

However, Twin couldn’t ignore how sticky and gunky his body felt, and the rising discomfort was moving increasingly closer to the forefront of his mind as the lingering hypnotic suggestions began to die out. Twin wanted to rub his head, as he now noticed it was very sore, he was also very thirsty and had a strong taste of Ruby’s venom in his mouth, however it had gone off and mixed into his bed breathe and it wasn’t quite as graceful as last night. Finally, his fur was clinging to the coils around him and his crotch was stuck flat down as if he had gel in it. Twin glanced at Ruby, still peacefully sleeping the morning away, he didn’t want to disturb her, but his fur was getting itchy now. He would just ask her to uncoil him so he could go bathe, because he couldn’t really move on his own right now.

“Excuse me… Mistress,” Twin blinked, he had been about to say Ruby but the word Mistress had shuffled in and slipped out in its place instead. Twin focused on the word, trying to keep it from slipping out involuntarily again, as he tried to speak Ruby’s name again “Muh… Mist… Mmmm… R…Ruh… Ruooo…By… Ru-by.” Twin sighed smiling glad he could still speak how he wanted to, even if it was broken up into separate syllables “Mistress Ruby,” Twin flushed, really? He was that suggestable? Twin sighed, conceding defeat, he felt too good, numb, but also dirty to care, besides, managing her name, even after her new title, was slightly less embarrassing than not at all “Mistress Ruby, wake up please.” Ruby groaned, her tail tightening around Twin’s throat, trying to silence him “Mistress Ruby, please,” Twin said a little softer and the lamia turned her head to look, opening one eye.

“What?” She asked, without her usual seductive and almost regal like undertone.

“I er… can you please uncoil me Mist… Muh… Mistress Ruby.” Twin flushed “I want to go have a shower.” Ruby’s expression relaxed into a smile as her coils relaxed.

“Sure, be quick,” Ruby ordered as Twin wriggled free and quickly galloped to the door.

Halfway down the stairs, Twin finally noticed he was galloping and slowed down, instead bouncing up and down as if he was getting hyped for a race. It wasn’t hard for him to figure out that Ruby’s order to ‘be quick’ was forcing him to hurry up, but, even when he was aware of this fact, he couldn’t stop himself. Twin seemed to know he’d be rewarded and he NEEDED that reward so badly he was going to do anything Ruby commanded. Twin felt a little nervous about that realisation… what could Ruby make him do if she directly ordered him around instead of making a casual remark or request? Could he stop her… did he want too? A small smile began to creep over Twin’s mouth before a sudden gust of freezing cold water splashed into his face and he leapt halfway up into the air with a yelp, the sudden chill beating away his light trance.

“I… I better just get cleaned up.” Twin mumbled to himself.

“Quickly.” Ruby’s disembodied voice whispered to Twin.

“Of course, Mistress Ruby…” Twin blinked, glad he was alone so nopony could see himself talking to an imaginary Mistress.

Twin’s shower was brisk as he had been commanded, quickly ensuring that he smelt nice and wasn’t covered in gunk from the previous night’s… playing. Twin didn’t use the dripleaf however, he wasn’t sure why… he felt as if he couldn’t use it without permission, or maybe he didn’t want it affecting the real deal when he got back, a cheap teaser for what Ruby would give him if he was good, obedient and fast! This, once again, sent Twin spiralling down into a trance as he sprinted back upstairs, his sense of self-preservation the only thing stopping him from kicking the door open when he reached it. Twin did disregard knocking, seeing as Ruby was expecting him back he was sure he could get away with it, and as soon as he saw those glittering white and red scales he knew he’d made the right decision instead of waiting.

Twin gleefully leapt onto the bed and began pushing the coils around before he flopped down atop them, giggling happily, like a cat pawing its pillow. As Twin turned his head up, he noticed Ruby watching from the headboard with a smirk on her face “Enjoying yourself, slave?” Twin shivered, the word seemed to echo as his brain flashed through a series of rapid images too fast to really catch… but the feeling of mindless bliss easily crept in.

“Yes.” Twin hummed with a drowsy smile before shaking himself awake “I… what…?” Twin mumbled, confused, uncertain what he had really been thinking before his lapse.

Ruby simply placed her tail to his lips and Twin, once again, slumped in her grip, a dopey smile stretching his lips. It didn’t really matter… he had what he wanted, Mistress’ coils all around him! There was only one thing extra he wanted “Mistress?” Twin softly asked, Ruby quickly picking up that his tone was one of somepony who wanted something they doubted they could get easily.

“Yes, slave?” Ruby asked with a giggle as the word brushed over Twin’s dulled senses easily.

“Can you… hypnotise me again?” Twin asked with a small hopeful smile, tilting his head down and looking up at Ruby, like a lost puppy.

Ruby tapped her chin in mock thought “No,” Twin stood up straight, with a look as if somepony had threatened to take his life, before Ruby continued “Hold on, I will hypnotise you later, I just want to get things… ‘prepared’ for when that happens, alright?” Ruby asked and Twin nodded sighing with relief, he was going to feel that wonderful bliss again “But for now,” Ruby stretched her legs over her head, a few bones clicking in her back and tail “I need my own bath, then I have a few things to settle before our ‘playtime’ later today. So, can you be a good boy and follow my orders? I’ll let you remember the sensation of my eyes whisking your mind away if you do?” Twin nearly broke his neck nodding so fast “Good slave,” Twin shivered, nibbling his lip as his wings fluttered at his side “Now, I want you to clean up in here after our night of fun, afterwards, I want you to go back to where you got your job application and deliver a letter, you can get it from me later,” Ruby smile wistfully as she thought up an extra idea “And if you do all this before I’m ready, you can have a glass of raw dripleaf just to edge you along… and it can be any glass you choose, a shot or pint glass, up to you.” Twin gulped, already visualising the drink in his mind slipping down his throat and numbing his thoughts… although, he was pretty much doing that himself anyway with his memories, it was still a lovely thought.

“As you wish, Mistress.” Twin said with a little bow.

Ruby nodded slithering out of her bed, sighing longingly, wishing she could cosy up with Twin for a bit longer, but work called “Good boy, for now, think of each swirling ring flowing from my eyes, gushing into your open mind like water,” Ruby cupped Twin’s chin with her hoof and he looked up at the ceiling, the colours painted there twisting into rainbows as his eyes dilated and he moaned quietly “Well done, now, get to work and I’ll see you later.” Ruby said giving Twin a playful push as she slithered away, Twin unaware he was even moving, he entirely space on getting dressed into his uniform, working towards his commanded goal.

Twin’s thoughts were like syrup, gooey, sticky and dripping down ever so slowly. He was mostly focused on getting the room cleaned and straightened out as fast as he could, each little piece he completed sending a little shockwave of hypnotic rings through his brain, rattling what few thoughts he could manage out of place. Eventually, however, his senses managed to return, without Ruby drip feeding him hypnotic energy his trances were starting to wane and dull… Twin was finally starting to ponder on what Ruby had said… what was she getting ready for him? He’d served his punishment… right…

“Maybe she’s going to eat me like Fleur.” Twin thought, imagining Ruby approaching, licking her lips with that thick forked tongue, Twin shuffling back trying to escape…

Just as Twin’s mental Ruby grabbed hold of him, he finished resetting the bed, clean sheets neatly lined out with the pillows lined up against the headboard, causing a small wave of hypnosis to wash over him as a minor reward and further encouragement. This also caused Twin’s train of thought to shift to another track, where Ruby had already coiled him up and was squeezing him tight, Twin trying to crawl down her throat willingly. It took Twin a little while to realise he was thinking this before stopping, his hooves still working to clean the room as he tried to wrestle some form of control into his mind. But no matter how hard Twin tried, the little hypnotic rewards timed themselves just perfectly to snatch away his thoughts just as he was getting close to realising he was in danger, and a dull smile would spread over Twin’s lips, eagerly awaiting his fate instead of dreading it.

Eventually, however, Twin finished cleaning Ruby’s bedroom, as he glanced around and nodded a crashing wave of hypnotic power hit him and he nearly collapsed as his body convulsed madly, hardly able to control himself. Twin’s vision blurred and swirled around before he shut his eyes, swaying slightly. After about five minutes, Twin’s mind settled after the mental melting enough that he was able to remember he was supposed to go and get a letter to deliver for Ruby. With an excited skip, Twin made his way swiftly downstairs, somehow knowing without even asking, where she was. It was like she just reeled him in with her aura… her pretty, colourful, hypnotic aura. Ruby’s head butler didn’t even seem phased when Twin just wandered into his office, connecting to Ruby’s own.

Twin knocked out a cheerful tune on the door to Ruby’s office, he could vaguely hear soft talking but it ceased the second he made his presence known “Come in,” Ruby called from within and Twin attempted to open the door even before fully pushing the handle down, causing the wood to creak a little before giving way.

Ruby was seated behind her desk made of lavish dark brown vinyl wood, a large space underneath suited for lamia tails to curl and slither under, which was what was happening between Ruby and her guest. The second lamia mare, a unicorn, was bright blue with a lush sunlight golden mane, she was wearing a long regal and yet plain white dress and yet seemed to radiate leadership, she was also wearing a crown than Twin mistook for a silver cobra at first.

“As, Twinwing, good come here,” Twin obeyed, stepping behind the desk and onto Ruby’s coils, walking in place, enjoying how the coils moulded down under his hooves. The guest chuckled at Twin’s display and he flushed but didn’t cease. He hadn’t yet been so open about his submission to Ruby with others but now he couldn’t help it when in her presence.

Ruby took out a small sealed folder with a letter tied around and a bottle shaped package “Deliver this to the place where you got your application Twinwing, I intend on hiring new staff once I have completed your… ‘training’ later.” Twin nodded as Ruby offered the stack of papers to him, Twin tucking it away under his wing and heading for the door.

“Not wasting time with that one…” Twin heard the second mare say to Ruby as he shut the door, Twin unaware what she meant at the time

Twin cheerfully hummed as he made his way out of the manor, the gates opening at his approach, the guards informed of Twin’s temporary leave earlier, the concept of being rewarded by Ruby still fresh in his mind. Along the way Twin decided to focus on Ruby’s coils, thinking of how they glittered and shimmered as she slithered along, his mind making him follow a trail of white and red to his goal. However, Twin soon lost focus of this daydream, and without any immediate orders to fulfil he, finally, began to regain his senses fully. Twin blinked slowly, glancing around as the rose tint began to drip down like water down stained glass, clearing at last as his mind began to piece itself back together. Ruby had training for him? Is that what she had in store? It didn’t seem so threatening… but then, Twin’s mind couldn’t help thinking of the prey store and the other staff members… had they undergone ‘training’ to become so loyal, was that what the non-trained staff feared? But why would they fear having their skills improved, didn’t they want to serve Ruby to the best of their abilities and more? She most definitely deserved it!

Twin, however, began to imagine how the training would go, or what it could be. He comically thought of a very silly school where the students were wrapped up hoof to neck in coils and had to struggle correctly to satisfy their Mistress or Master, in Twin’s mind eye though he managed to fail and slip out and was eaten as punishment. He still wasn’t entirely comfortable with the concept of being devoured… what if that was part of it, a practical? Maybe it would be written… but Twin found that unlikely given Ruby’s use of him previously.

Twin could have speculated for hours, but his increasingly concerned train of thought halted when he reached the little office. The same mare as before was seated at her desk, although this time she was typing away at her desk when Twin entered. Unlike when he’d visited before, the office had several potential workers waiting for their turn. Twin sat down on a free seat, attracting a few glances with his uniform, including one from the mare behind the desk who seemed to shuffle and gulp but kept listening to the current pony seated before her. When she was finished she beckoned Twin over, much to the annoyance of the others who were waiting.

“Yes?” She asked with a hint of hope in her voice.

“Mistress Ruby asked me to deliver this to you.” Twin said offering it to her. The mare quickly snatched it up and read rapidly, her eyes flicking back and forth, before she smiled and nodded in understanding.

“Of course, tell her it’ll be done as soon as possible!” She said with a wide grin and Twin now knew the rings in her eyes were Ruby’s. So, she worked for her? That might have interested Twin but he was currently undergoing his own programmed reward.

“Right.” Was all Twin managed before heading for the door, another pony stepping forward, and as Twin left he heard the worker offer employment at Scale manner… it seemed like a dream come true to the potential employee.

It was.

Twin hummed happily to himself, the light buzz from delivering the letter fresh in his mind kept him going, the effects of each order completed seemed to be growing in intensity, or, more likely, Twin wasn’t resisting their effects and was letting them in much more easily. Either way, Twin was up to the gate before his senses began to clear and he blinked, the sound of the iron grinding on stone awakening him from his stupor, as it would with anypony. Twin once again slipped back into the clutches of Ruby’s control, without a care that his easiest opportunity to escape had just sailed by, his sights were set on his reward.

Twin skipped through the halls straight to Ruby’s office, this time when she let him enter she was alone “All done?” Ruby asked and Twin nodded, Ruby leaned back and opened a draw, offering a dark green bottle with a purple liquid inside “A little extra reward to prep you for tonight. Head to the staff room before drinking it though and make sure to get dressed out of your uniform you won’t need it later. And Twinwing,” Twin glanced at Ruby, breaking his gaze from the bottle “Enjoy yourself.” Ruby purred with a grin.

“Yes, thank you Mistress, I will!” Twin said having to restrain himself from snatching the bottle from his Mistress, he didn’t want it taken away.

Although, once he had the bottle, Twin wasted no time racing up to his room and undressing, another worker was heading around collecting uniforms and Twin hoofed his over, pretty much throwing it at them, before galloping for the staffroom. Twin barged in, clutching the bottle of dripleaf, a couple ponies jumping in surprise as Twin flushed.

“S-sorry.” He mumbled, quickly finding a bundle of coils to snuggle up to in the corner of the room.

Twin gulped, licking his lips, which had suddenly turned dry, as he uncorked the bottle, the fragrance wafted up from within and Twin smiled taking a small sip… which grew into a gulp and within a second he was chugging the whole drink down. Twin’s vision sharpened and then seemed to flash into darkness and yet brightness as he had a hypnotic blackout. The empty bottle fell from his grip and Twin slumped where he sat, smiling contently as his brain melted once again, having failed to even fully solidify properly before the drink.

As the manor continued its day to day activities, Twin was left where he had sat, staring blankly ahead at something only his own mind could see. A couple of Ruby’s ‘trained’ staff checked on Twin every so often to make sure he was well but otherwise he was undisturbed for the day.

“Twinwing,” Twin snapped up straight at the sound of his Mistress’ voice, his brain suddenly kicking into a state of hyper alert as well as numbed quiet at the same time “Twinwing, come to me.” Ruby commanded and Twin leapt up, trotting to the door and heading downstairs.

Ruby was patiently waiting for Twin at the front door and smiled both warmly and smugly when he hopped down, nearly dropped to his knees at the sight of her “Y-you called?” Twin purred with a smile.

“Yessss, I did… follow me.” Ruby hissed, Twin shivering at the sound, as the lamia looped a coil around his throat to tug him along.

Ruby led Twin into the left side of the manor, near the Greenhouse, before heading down a hallway he’d never taken before, probably a back exit to the manor’s original exterior garden. Part way down, Ruby stopped at a door with a combination lock and a keyless lock, one that requires a unicorn’s specific magic. Ruby provided both the code and her aura and the door clicked open and Twin walked through without a care even as Ruby flicked the door close behind her, locking them in together. The door led almost straight to a ramp heading downward and as Twin was dragged down after Ruby he quickly summarised that they were below the regular foundation level of most houses once the ramp levelled out. Twin wondered why Ruby needed such an expansive space for training under her house, it seemed the hallway stretched off for a considerable distance, with a few breakoffs Twin couldn’t see down. One of the few rooms Twin got a glance in was filled with various maps and pictures of ponies as well as a strange insignia and the letters ‘CR’. Ruby tugged Twin past before he could look inside further and finally stopped at a purple door with a black and white swirl painted on it. Again, Ruby unlocked it, but only with a keypad this time and the door unlocked.

The room was very similar to that of a mental recovery ward, with squishy, padded white walls. In the middle was the only piece of furniture in the room, a simple purple coloured armchair, with gel pads to sink into. It looked very comfortable, although Twin suspected it would have nothing on Ruby’s coils.

“Take a seat.” Ruby ordered and Twin complied leaning back into the chair, it sank around him and he thought vaguely of Ruby’s coils again, which had begun to loop around the chair. Before Twin could react, even if his brain were clear, Ruby had looped four coils deftly around Twin’s legs, pinning them to the armrests and legs preventing escape “There we go, wouldn’t want you struggling… too much.” Ruby said smiling as Twin flushed.

“What are you going to do?” Twin asked, sounding more eager than frightened.

Ruby smirked “I’m going to rewrite your precious little mind to be my obedient slave forever, you won’t be able to leave my service… ever. You’ll enjoy it.” Ruby let her eyes flash with hypnotic rings and Twin slumped.

“I’ll enjoy it…” He droned peacefully.

“Excellent, you seem to be pretty deep in my influence, so we can begin,” Ruby slithered around Twin’s chair, standing directly behind him so he had to turn his head to keep looking at her “Eyes forward for me.” Twin mumbled in protest but obeyed and Ruby looped a coil up around Twin’s throat “Here’s what we’re going to do, every time you do as I command, like a good slave, you get a reward… every time you protest, like just now, you get… punished!” Ruby grinned as she tightened the coil, holding firm as Twin gasped, wheezing around the harsh leash. Ruby hummed as Twin only managed whistles of air around the throat gag, his face taking a light hint of blue before Ruby relaxed her grip “Next time won’t be so gentle… but I know that was harsh, so I’ll show you the reward.” Twin gasped, wheezing and coughing as Ruby pushed the coil up against Twin’s chin, turning his gaze upright.

Twin gasped as Ruby’s eyes were already in the process of pulsating with hypnotically coloured rings, white, red, blue… Twin’s eyes flicked back and forth trying to take in every colour as Ruby rubbed Twin’s new ‘leash’ back and forth over his sore throat, making him gulp. However, as quickly as it began Ruby stopped.

“No wait, please I want more!” Twin begged but the leash tightened, not much, just enough to remind Twin what it was for but it didn’t impact his breathing at all.

“Obey and you get more, every time you obey in succession I’ll let it go on for longer, it’s a reward, you must earn it, understand?” Twin nodded “Good, now look forward.” Twin hesitated, before turning his head down “You didn’t complain,” Twin smiled turning his head up “But you didn’t do it immediately, and you think you can choose when to get your reward… Head… Down!” Twin gulped, obeying much faster, but not enough to avoid Ruby’s wrath.

Ruby deftly lifted Twin up by his throat, looping her tail down and around his upper chest and squeezing his lungs before closing his throat again “Now, say with me; ‘I must not think, when I think thoughts are difficult and exhausting, they make me weak and tired, when I’m weak I need my goddess, when I need my goddess I must obey her, my goddess takes my thoughts away, her control makes me happy when I obey, I am only happy when I obey, when I am happy I can think again.’” Twin wheezed, having a little trouble starting his own repetition after Ruby had finished telling him his mantra due to the strangling coil.

“I must… not think… when I think thoughts are… difficult… and exhausting, they… make me weak and tired, when I’m weak I need my goddess… when I need my goddess I must obey her, my goddess takes… takes my thoughts away, her control makes me happy when I obey, I am only happy when I obey, when I am happy I can think again.” As Twin repeated his new mantra, Ruby began to steadily loosen her grip allowing Twin to speak more easily, when he started the second loop he wasn’t wheezing between every few words anymore and on the third repetition Ruby had begun to rub his throat back and forth with her tail again, soothing the pain of her forceful constriction.

Ruby silently began to tug Twin’s head up, his gaze flicking up to hers as he faltered in his speech, Ruby’s rainbow-like eyes stealing his breath “Keep going,” Ruby whispered and Twin kept talking as best he could, doing all he could to prevent Ruby from ceasing the wonderful display.

“…I need my goddess, when I need my goddess I must obey her,” Yes… obey her and get to see the pretty colourful rings “My goddess takes my thoughts away,” That’s what Twin wanted, what he desired and craved… thoughtlessness, and obeying brought him to thoughtlessness… he couldn’t disobey, the rings and the loops wouldn’t allow it! He wouldn’t allow it!

Ruby smiled, slowly rocking her head back and forth, left and right, steadily, like a metronome, and Twin’s head rocked back and forth in tune, only a moment’s delay between the two. Twin was still whispering his mantra, but other than keeping up with his new law of life, his mind was blank, silent and still. Ruby lifted a coil up to Twin’s mouth and silenced his quiet prayers, his body then turning immediately rigid as his brain lost the one thing he was focusing on. Twin’s eyes snapped wide open and a goofy grin spread over his mouth behind the coil pressing into his lips.

Ruby held Twin’s gaze upright, time to start “Twinwing,” The stallion shivered but made no other indication he had heard her, not that he could ignore Ruby at this point “You are a good pet, a good slave, aren’t you?” Twin did his best to nod and Ruby chuckled “Good boy, and a good slave obeys… now, you love my coils don’t you?” More nodding “Good, they feel so good, so soft, squishy, comfortable and commanding. You love to be smothered in them, it is a natural craving of course, but you will need them even more whenever I say to you you’re uncomfortable you will beg and plead and do anything without hesitation to be granted my coils… but you cannot take them for it would be rude to do so and won’t relieve you desires.” Twin merely stared up into Ruby’s swirling eyes, if she had never done this before she might have been worried it wasn’t having any effect on him, but Ruby knew the words were slithering and twisting down and into Twin’s spongey mind, like water “You also love this, the feeling of my control enveloping your mind, but sometimes there isn’t time for me to hypnotise you, so whenever I say to you Twinwing, you will submit no matter where we are, what you are thinking or doing, the rings will overwhelm your mind and return you to my control.” Ruby paused, thinking, then she grinned “Another trigger for you, whenever I say Slave I command you to you will be compelled to obey, whatever the order regardless of your thoughts on what I demand of you it must be done… and you will earn a wonderful mind tingling reward when it is completed to instil in you a desire to do it again… and again… and again…”

Ruby waited, allowing the triggers to sink and latch onto Twin’s mind deeply and tightly, unless another, highly skilled, lamia or unicorn got to Twin soon they would never leave his subconscious… and since Ruby was the only one capable of doing so presently Twin’s fate was sealed!

“Now, Twinwing, I want you to begin waking up, fully waking up. You won’t remember my triggers, the hypnosis will wash away from your mind, like water over your hoof, freeing your thoughts to be your own. You will be fully in control, unless I use one of your triggers, but you will remember every tiny detail from within my spell… but when you slip back into my control you will go deeper… a hundred times deeper than all the times you’ve slipped before combined and the conditioning effects of your previous slips under my spell will return… you will be my slave for life.” Ruby hissed as her eyes began to slow then stop.

Twin blinked, one eyelid able to close fully whilst the other kept getting stuck half open as his pulsing eyes slowed. Twin felt as if a cold bucket of water had been tossed over his mind. Cold, cruel and unwelcome lucidity and clarity returned to him as Ruby swiftly uncoiled the stallion slithering back a little to watch it all unfold. In Twin’s mind the experiences and manipulation Ruby had used upon him were lifted up, stacked and neatly organised then shoved into a box, blotting them out from his mind, leaving only his triggers unpacked as lucidity fully returned. Twin looked around before locating Ruby, everything she had done, all she had made him do flooded back into his mind and Twin rocketed up from the chair, both fearful and embarrassed.

“R-Ruby… I er…” Twin gulped then sprinted for the door, trying to open it.

“Slave,” Twin felt a little bit of static trickle up his neck at the word “I command you to come back down here and stand in front of me.” Twin found himself doing a one-eighty and heading straight over to Ruby, his hooves rooted to the floor just a pace in front of the imposing lamia.

“W-what… I can’t… I can’t move, what’s happening?” Twin asked nervously as his body quivered, the only indication that he was telling every limb in his body to thrash wildly.

“You are obeying,” Twin looked confused as Ruby began to slither around the immobile stallion “How funny, you cannot resist my control, even lucid, your mind wants my control so badly it is overriding you even when you are conscious and ‘in control’. Hehe, so, slave, you want to be my slave forever?” Ruby asked leaning over Twin’s shoulder to look him in his shocked and frightened eye.

“I want to be your slave forever.” Twin heard the words but couldn’t believe he had spoken them. However, senses a ripe opportunity, the box filled with Twin’s memories opened a little and his mind flooded with the flashes of his time under Ruby’s influence, the taste of dripleaf and the sensations of the fun they’d had “I want to be your slave forever…” Twin whispered again, flushing as his ears folded down, staring sideways at Ruby, nervously maintaining eye contact to make it easier for Ruby.

Twin wouldn’t know, but this confession Ruby had managed to get out of him would seal his fate and tie him forever to Ruby’s control. For Twin’s will had not been taken, but instead given up willingly, or so he thought. This meant that Twin would walk into the serpent’s den happily and the fact he had done so would ensure he would never look back, never resist unless commanded… he was doomed to obey Ruby forever, his final chance to escape, or at least save his mind, had just past him by without him realising and Ruby wasted no time slithering in front of the stallion and lighting her eyes up.

A few, swift seconds, drifted by before Twin returned to Ruby’s control, all of her suggestions, tweaks and teasing over the past few days flooded back into his mind in force and his will shattered beyond repair. Even for a skilled lamia, Twin’s mind was beyond repair, but he didn’t care… he had everything he wanted… he had his goddess.

Ruby smiled, tilting Twin’s unresisting chin up a little to inspect her prize, Twin smiled thoughtlessly at nothing in particular, his mind a barren, empty desert without even a single thought swirling through. Not even one made to obey Ruby or marvel at her perfection made from the hypnosis itself.

“Twinwing, wake from your trance,” Ruby commanded and Twin blinked before awakening, however he was met with Ruby’s pulsating eyes and before he could say anything he slipped right back into trance “Twinwing, wake from your trance,” Again, Twin awoke, locked eyes with Ruby and fell back down into obedience.

Each time Ruby did this the time between Twin awakening and submitting shortened. Finally, after Ruby had done this roughly thirty or so times, she, once more, said “Twinwing, wake from your trance,” Any yet, little changed, Twin’s eyes and smile somewhat relaxed, when his eyes returned to their natural colour they seemed glazed, as if he had minor cataract and yet he could see perfectly, perhaps even better than before. Ruby waved her hoof in front of Twin’s face and it was half a minute before he registered the movement.

Ruby grinned, Twin’s mind could barely distinguish between lucidity and trance. The gap would grow, once he was given some time to adjust, but for now, his mind was thoughtless, the world was heaven and Ruby was its creator.

Epilogue

The mid-afternoon sun was sat snugly between a pair of poofy white clouds, beating down a heavy summer heat below. The city of Canterlot was alive, loud chattering and day to day life hummed from within, the city’s beating heart. Ponies went to work, shopped or enjoyed their immense wealth whilst lamias snatched them up with delighted squeals, laughs and jealous glares from their friends at how lucky they that they were going to be enslaved. Down a few twisting streets a high walled manor stood, the guards on patrol, but the gate was wide open today. The door to the manor itself had a singular stallion stood waiting. His gaze was turned straight forward and he seemed completely invested in the distant road ahead of him, a wide grin on his face as his mind tingled.

Just then the stallion spotted a small group of ponies, maybe seven or eight, heading for the manor. The stallion quivered a little before returning to his statue like stance as the group entered the manor grounds, heading for him.

The stallion stepped forward as the gate closed, speaking once silence had fallen “Good afternoon everypony, I’m Twinwing and I’ll be taking you to the goddess for your interviews today, let’s not keep her waiting.” Twin said quickly fluttering behind the group and ushering them in.

“Twinwing, come in with the group I’m sure you can enjoy their ‘trail’ as well.” Twin perked up at the sound of his goddess’ voice and smiled, trying to hurry the group along as his mind began to think of Ruby… but that set off his mantra and, like a good slave, he began to recite it quietly to himself as he followed his command.

“I must not think, when I think thoughts are difficult and exhausting, they make me weak and tired, when I’m weak I need my goddess, when I need my goddess I must obey her, my goddess takes my thoughts away, her control makes me happy when I obey, I am only happy when I obey.”