Explorations and Encounters

She saw Andreas a few times more during those early hours of the day, but every time he didn't respond to her hello's, and just grunted himself away.

Sally was curious about the house, so she did a little exploring. The corridors and rooms were wide enough to fit her without issues, but if she wanted to turn around, she'd have to enter one of the rooms to do this, or ruin the walls with her scales.

After a bit of scouting on ground floor she saw that from living room she could go out to the large terrace that connected to the backyard which was largely uncared for. Grass and other plants had a free roam in there, and she even saw a few rodents outside. Sally managed to suppress her primal hunting instincts and just continued to check out the house instead.

The corridor connecting the entrance and the living room had a few of doors which she opened and checked out. She managed to find a nicely equipped kitchen, stairs to the cellar and a bathroom, but this one was too small for her to even turn around, let alone bathe. Clearly, there had to be another one in this house.

She couldn't decide whether to go down, to the cellar or up, to second floor. Sally knew that he was up there and he might've not approved her just crawling around the place. But she had to, she was slowly getting cold.

Climbing the stairs was one of the many challenges Lamias had in this world. Her body was simply too heavy to try and slide effortlessly upwards, so she had to slowly pull herself up on the handrail. Getting up those - in total - sixteen steps took her a fair few minutes, but she was motivated to find a bath that would fit her.

Up there, the corridor had multiple pictures of Andreas and other people on big sporting events. Sally didn't really understand it, nor did she know who any of these people were. But she understood the significance of still images of him shouting something while lifting some sort of trophy.

She heard a noise coming from one of the rooms, and she skipped that one. Clearly he was in there.

Next, Sally found two bedrooms, and finally a bathroom. It had a huge thing that humans called jacuzzi, perfectly suiting her needs. Without thinking about it too hard, she went inside and remembering her education about human appliances, she managed to get the hot water flowing inside. She took off her suit, putting it carefully on the shelf, and freed up her hair by pulling out both pins that bound it together. When the jacuzzi filled up with steaming hot water, she just closed her eyes and started to enjoy the moments of peace.

She thought about the last few days, and that she was almost about to give up. That every time a new sponsor arrived to pick her up, they just resigned at the mere sight of her. She was close to depression, since the people in here usually reacted negatively to her, or treated her like some sort of a pet, not a person. So when she got a call that everything was set up in the house of someone that needed a friend, she immediately volunteered and next day got there.

Sally was told that her sponsor can be cold and bitter, but he treats everyone equally, and that's what enticed her the most. But so far...

So far it hasn't been great. She realized that he wasn't the one that made an agreement with AWIO, and that she might be a burden for him. But the lamia was also determined to give this guy a fair chance. He invited her to his house after all. Now all she needed him to do was to sign the sponsor documents, which usually is a formality, but she heard about some people resigning in the last moment. Still, he shouldn't be that hard to convince...

Her train of thoughts stopped when she heard something.

What Sally didn't realize until this point was the fact that she didn't lock the doors behind her.

Andreas stepped out of cinema room and went to the bathroom. After opening the doors, he saw another stress inducing image.

She sat there, in the bath, her hair free falling over her naked breasts, her tail mostly inside, with just a few feet long tip sticking out, her green eyes piercing him in shock.