she managed to squeeze the poison glands and force out the last drops of venom. they hung from mist’s fangs for a moment, catching light as jewels would; the force of the serpent’s convulsions flung them away into the darkness. snake struggled with the cobra, aided for once by the sa...
I kissed the top of Junior’s head and picked him up for one last tight squeeze. His cheek rested against the conjure bag, but he didn’t seem to notice. He was too far gone. “I love you, Junior,” I said, cradling him in my arms as I walked out into the moonlit night. “...
Large members of these families can exert very high constriction pressures (Moon et al., 2019), which severely affects respiration and blood circulation, and can break bones. In both families the snout is relatively long and the quadrates and mandible are elongated. The intermandibular tissues ...