Helping Your Lamia Friend Shed

<Door open>

Oh wonderful, you've made it! I'm so glad you got here.

I know traffic tends to get pretty hectic around this time, especially in this area. 

Please, come in, come in!

<Movement into the house; door close>

Make yourself comfortable. We've got fruit on the kitchen counter if you need anything to eat.

Oh! I've taken care of that for the week already, so I should be all set. I wouldn't want it to go bad.

How has your job been? You had that new promotion recently, right? Senior manager...

{Pause; longer for answer}

You're in charge of that many people? Wow. That sounds incredibly stressful. I hope you're still sleeping okay. 

{Pause for second comment}

You get every other Friday off? I'm jealous. I barely get to take off this much time. Maybe I should have gone into that field like you did.

{While stretching} Then again...I love the service industry. It would be so hard to slither away from seeing so many people every day.

Ah...

Miriam and Curtis are at their grandparents' for the weekend. I'm sure they'll be spoiled rotten, but it's well worth having free babysitters. It's been a few years since they've been out that far anyway.

Are you ready? Do you need to do anything? This will probably take about half an hour. 

{Pause}

All set? Excellent. I did warn you that it would be warm—thank you for dressing for the occasion. It's going to be in our back room.

<Movement towards the back room>

This is it! My luxury resort for the next few days. I hope you don't mind the dim red light. Heat lamps are far from cheap, and I'd much rather be able to sleep easily without moving.

I have a small reading light by the nest, if I need it. My eyes aren't the greatest though, especially during...this.

Before we start...

Well. Um. I guess I just want to thank you for doing this.

My mate—err, husband—has been doing this with me every few months for the last six years. I guess it kind of became our "thing". But with him gone for a month on that huge trip...

[Sigh] It's just strange asking for help. I don't want to trouble people, and it's super uncomfortable for both parties.

{Pause; listener replies}

I know. I guess I'm just self-conscious about it. There's really only been about three people in my life who have ever helped me with it. It's so gross and I hate feeling useless half of the time when I try to do it.

A necessary evil, I guess. I've put it off longer than I probably should have.

{Pause; awkward}

I-if you have any questions about what's going on, I'd be happy to answer them for you. I wouldn't fault you for not knowing much of snake biology. 

I guess it's easier because I'm a lamia, and not a full snake. It's not like I have to do the full body...

I'll try to get comfortable in my nest here.

<slithering; cloth sounds>

Ahhhh. Electric blankets are the best.

Okay! I guess I'm ready. If you want to stop at any time, please just let me know. There's not particularly a time limit here. Plus, I can start off for a bit and show you how to do it. It'll be better if I handle the crease, at least.

<Leathery; paper sounds. The Lamia is just trying to feel for a good place to begin>

This part is always the trickiest...

Aaaand...

There we go.

<Very slow peeling sounds. This can't be rushed! Make this as ASMR-forward as you'd like. Continue sounds during dialogue until specified. Take longer pauses in between lines if you want, to show the process being gradual.>

Slowly, slowly...just working around the width of my tail first.

Once I get as much as I can, I'd advise sort of circling around back to front.

We don't want to do strips, if we can help it. Maintaining the whole width around is best.

Don't worry about little flaky bits. We can do those at the end.

And...okay. Now that I've done the top area, let's try to do it together for a bit. 

Get a pretty steady grip here...

You're not necessarily pulling as much as you think. My tail will cover most of the effort.

Just slightly above staying in place.

{Pause}

A bit less! That's a little quick.

It's okay! You were pretty close from the start, which is already great as is. 

I'll keep moving a bit further from here. If you need to take a break at any point, or you get worried, remind me and we can stop.

{Pause}

I'll basically circle around you once and then be right into bed. Try your best to not touch the fresh scales. They're really sensitive and it kinda hurts.

What you're doing there is perfect.

Mmm....

Thank you for doing this. I've put this off long enough.

Imagine taking a nice long shower after a week of not doing so. Feels a little bit like that.

Wonderful...

<Continue peeling noises, as the rest of the script fades out. You can draw this out as long as you want for ASMR purposes>

END.