"S-Si...," Nala started to stammer through her immense fear, unaware of the python's tail encircling her neck. "S-Sim..." She had glanced towards her friend upon hearing him stirring and was desperate for any sort of help. "Simba-URK!" she could only yell out when two coils squeezed her throat mercilessly right out the gate. Her eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets upon being choked while her mouth went agape in trying to let any air in or out. Her only chance was lost.
Nala could feel her entire body becoming encased within the python's scaly coils from neck to hind-legs and slowly being squeezed all around. If the pressure exerted on her wasn't strenuous enough, the strangling coils around her throat were unbearable. The only sounds she could utter were hacking wheezes that barely got even a single air particle without it feeling like death itself. However, the cherry on top of this whole torture was the expression on the python's face.
Unable to move her head, Nala could only look back at the purple python's smirk that seemed so delighted. Almost as though his hunger was already sated. It didn't take long for it to become painfully clean even as she endured the constricting coils. Her suffering was nothing but the sadistic serpent's appetizer. Every hack and wheeze was but a quaint performance for him. The lioness cub could tell that the stranglehold he had her in was little more that a bit of his strength.
The need for oxygen was almost equal to Nala's humiliation over her suffering being but entertainment for the purple python. She could feel him deliberately whittling away her strength slowly but surely with the occasional sharp squeeze to her throat. How slowly the lioness cub died was completely up to him and his stomach. "Sim-ba... "she managed to croak out, praying for his rescue. Her eyelids began to droop as she glanced towards a stirring Simba just before her...
