Just A Son Of A Gun - Open, pet snake

[Kold]

Kold

Warm desert air greeted the young pup as she wandered away from the foliage, unafraid of anything to come. She wanted to be out, to explore the eternity that surrounded her home. So she set out in the morning. Catching little rodents for food, she kept herself occupied before seeing something long and beautifully colored hiding against a granite rock. Bounding over to it, she pressed her nose against it, earning a shocked strike at her nose. She yelped and recoiled, but poked the snake with her nose. This time, it simply poked her back.

Kold sniffed at it, then saw that it seemed a bit dehydrated. With a small pond of water nearby, she gently picked the small boa with her jaws and carried it to the pond. It was shocked and scared at first, but eventually it relaxed and furiously drank the water. Watching it drink, she took in the pale scales with dark marroon stripes from head to tail on it's body, admiring it. It turned to look at her, seemingly admiring her as well. With a little yap, she gently picked the snake up again. This time it was calm, knowing it wouldn't be harmed by her. Instead, it simply moved to rest on her back, and she allowed it to escape her jaws for the soft fur of her back.

Returning to the jungle later that morning, she walked with such a pronounced way that anyone could tell she was proud. Damn girl had a pet snake. Hell yea, why wouldn't she be proud? She didn't even have a name for it yet.