Naga by ems-artwork on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

She found him in the forest behind her family's farm.

He was wandering alone and confused.

She hid him in the storage rafters speaking not a word to her parents.

For one thing she doubted that they would believe her. Who, just who, she wondered would ever believe that a...snakeboy really existed?!

Oddly she was more afraid of what they might think if they knew she was hiding a teenage boy in the barn.

Day after day she tended him, a feat made all the easier due to her extensive studied in the field of herpetology. Even at sixteen she knew more than most in the field.

She watched her with a half-smile on her face. He lay with his human belly upon the floor his entire focus on the chirping electronic game unit in his hands.

It enthralled him ever since the moment he had first seen it and that fact tickled her heart...