Serpent Sarcophagus

Stowy's voice was low and sad, as if he felt wounded.

“I remember you.” I was driving with the steering wheel going full. “You are the black serpent in my dream.”

“Ah...” Stowy gave a self-mocking smile.

I heard something wrong with his voice, but I couldn’t spare the time to care about that. I glanced over my shoulder in the rearview mirror.

David, who had just been swept away by the water, got up again, stood behind the car, and stretched out his hands toward my car.

The snake coiled around David's hands. Its head was pointing at the car and its tongue was flicking out. The hiss too, I didn’t notice when the voice that was calling my name had resumed.

And in the nearby woods, there seemed to be something moving. Even the sound of the wind hustling through the tree appeared to be calling me, “Aurora, Aurora!”

“Never look back and never look into any snake’s eyes.” Stowy's heavy voice sounded so serious.

Being my first time driving, the car traveled on the mountain road in a zigzagging course. In this chaotic situation, how could there be any time for me to look back?

When we suddenly passed the edge of a cliff, several snakes fell straight from the half-sloping tree onto the windshield.

The snakes hovered, snarling at me through the glass.

As Stowy waved his hand, rushing out was a current of water, and all those snakes were washed away.

All along the road would occasionally spring out one or two snakes, but they were washed away by Stowy’s magic finger so that I could drove while sweating.

The milestone tablet in front came into my sight just as the car was about to enter the village. I heaved a long sigh of relief.

But due to a moment of carelessness, the car ran straight into the stone tablet and stopped.

“Go into the village and find your grandmother.” Stowy’s shape faded as he turned toward me, “Go get the bracelet. Remember to place a drop of your blood on it. You must dig out the sarcophagus and expose it under the sun! Quickly!”

He then disappeared, I hurried off, picking up the bag on the back.

toward me. His hair and beard stuck together. It was hard for anyone to recognize his facial expression with his

called Mr. Han who had some mental issues and often wandered around in the village, begging for food whenever

from my

“You can't go in! A snake is following you. So

he was talking about Stowy. I

biscuit and giggling.

that your father killed. It has no body, but it will take its vengeance on you.

which cast a long shadow

wet, but my sweat made it even

of drinks in my bag and threw it to Mr. Han. Then I took the opportunity to run into the village when he was picking it

family. Ha, Ha...” Mr. Han still shouted at the back, but he

in such a hurry that I was barely able to catch my breath. Grandma was feeding the chicken when she saw me. The chicken gathered around her feet immediately ran

at me while holding the food bowl. She noticed the serpent-shaped shadow on the

to me in a low voice as if nothing was unexpected. “Aurora, stand here

the door, looking at my grandma, a little fluttered. I had

out with a big white goose. She threw the goose

short-tempered beast only became more irritated after it was thrown into the air. It fluttered its wing

not a people-friendly animal. Whenever I saw this big white goose, I couldn’t help but fear it. My father said several times that it should be brought down and cooked, but that idea was

tried to evade it,

and looked at my grandmother in

on the ground a couple of times. After finding the right direction, as expected, it extended the long neck and two big wings,

Inside my head, Stowy’s

bite was not enough, it had to

times, I

Grandma came out with a plate of food to distract the big white

she looked at my shadow and said to me, “It's all right now. Come

shadow behind me was gone. Everything had returned

relief. Got rid of the trouble so

the Black Mamba Bracelet still in our

to the plate to feed the goose and looked at me with a light sigh, “It has started! I've had this goose for ten years. It’s