Ted stood still, holding his breath.
He could feel the sleek body of the reptile slowly coil around his lower limb. And coincidentally right at that moment, the ones after him, seemed to enter the sanctuary as well.
Ted could not make any move, whatsoever and Mrs Hissington took her sweet time wrapping herself around him, as if sniffing him, taking him in.
" This way, you two... The rest take the left. "
Ted could hear one of them whisper and he wondered why their command was hushed. It was almost as if they were the ones in the wrong and not him.
Ted was so busy focusing on his pursuers, he completely forgot about his silent assaulter. It completely skipped his mind that he was now in the tight grip of a formidable creature.
Ted tried to jerk it off with his brute force but to
