"Hello there little fella". Cassie had handled snakes before and she saw that it wasn´t one of the venomous types. The headshape was different even though she didn´t recognize the pattern on the body.
She picked it up to examine it closer, careful not to give it a chance to bite her. All snakes still had fangs.
"Strange skin", she noted to herself and brought it even closer to her face.
In a mere second the snake lashed out at her and went for her mouth.
"MMMMMPH!"
Her mouth were full of snake and despite all of her frantic efforts to pull it out or to chew it to bits failed. It was either suddenly too slippery or too squishy to bite through. More and more of it entered her mouth.
She felt how it pressed against the back of her head and how it pushed through in an explosion of head pain.
She felt how it moved up to her brain, and down her neck and spine.
Numbness spread though her body and her field of vision was gradually becoming narrower, until it was completely black.
The fallen body of Cassie struggled up on her unsteady feet again.
She was pleased. This body and memories was highly sufficent for her mission.
With it she could court humans in positions that could interfere with the plans of her people. Replacement and infiltration had been the key to success in other subjugations of popualated planets with sentient lifeforms.
This world would be no exception.
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