"Well this is a fine mess you've gotten us into," Alice snarked, gncing down her body to look at Bridgette, who was also lying on the ground.

  "I swear, it wasn't on purpose," Bridgette protested. "I mean, not that I'm necessarily upset at the way this turned out, but ... it definitely didn't start as intentional." She squirmed uncomfortably, bringing a gasp from Alice as the restraints binding the two women together pinched tightly against their pussies, the twisted ropes digging into their soft skin, the bondage keeping them almost fully immobile.

  "Oh fuck," Alice gasped, "This is so cruel. Keep doing that."

  Five Hours Earlier

  It was the middle of winter, snow covering the fields while the wind howled outside the Iowa farmhouse. Alice, Bridgette, and Colin sat in the kitchen of Alice's family farmhouse, having a brief war conference.

  "Travis said there had been a few sightings of kobolds and other creatures up by the north pasture," Bridgette said, pointing to a spot on a map she'd id out on the table. "I don't think it's anything too outrageous, so I'm happy to just bring Alice and get some scouting in. If we see anything we don't think we can handle, we'll pull back and send up a fre, asking for help."

  Colin nodded, looking at the map. "Sounds good to me. It's way too cold outside, I have no interest in going out there unless I really need to. I'll be studying some magic and looking at new evocation applications ... making bigger booms," he crified, upon seeing Bridgette's bnk expression.

  "Bigger booms, got it!" She ughed. "Sounds perfect. Just don't blow yourself up."

  "Or my farm," Alice interjected.

  "I'll be careful," Colin said while rolling his eyes. "You two have no faith."

  "I mean, do you need me to count the number of times you accidentally blew yourself up during chemistry css? I could start counting," Alice teased.

  Colin scowled pyfully, throwing a biscuit from his breakfast pte at Alice. "Go on, get out of here you two. Go have fun adventuring."

  "Bye, Colin! Thanks for watching the pce!" Bridgette stood, helping Alice to her feet, and the two headed out into the cold, their goddess-provided magical clothing helping modute the howling winds to merely chilly as the two women walked, cd in thin summer dresses. The two walked north for close to an hour, cutting across fields as they headed toward the area that Travis had said he saw an increase in monster activity. As the two women walked, they held hands, their fingers intertwined. A lot had happened over the six months since the world ended and the monsters arrived. They were no closer to understanding where everyone had vanished to, but their passion for each other had only continued to increase as the months ticked by.

  Bridgette pulled Alice to a stop, crouching and pointing ahead. Beyond the next hill, the two women could see the forms of a few dead creatures on the snow, bodies torn to pieces and blood staining the snow. "Those look like kobolds, so something else must have been here. Something that didn't like kobolds."

  The two women snuck forward, Bridgette pulling her greataxe from her storage ring as Alice clutched her healer's staff, rubbing her hands nervously up and down the thick and veiny wood as she did. They reached the dead kobolds, pausing as they gnced around at the carnage.

  "Something vicious did this for sure," Alice commented. "This one looks almost bit in half, which is crazy. And look, this one almost looks like it has fang marks? But over here is one with what looks like stab wounds from a big sword."

  "Yea, that's super weird," Bridgette said, gncing around between the bodies. "I have no idea what kind of enemy could do all of those different things." She kicked over the corpse of a kobold, an expression of absolute panic frozen on its face for eternity. "Fuckers sure died scared, though."

  "Should we bury them? Or burn them? I don't think it's wise to just leave them all out like this for scavengers."

  "Good point. I don't feel like digging, so let's just haul them together, and I'll see if I can find something to burn," Bridgette replied. A few minutes ter, the women had pulled the corpses into a rge pile, counting body parts from six different kobolds. Bridgette rummaged around in her storage ring, finding an oil can that she used to douse the bodies and then start a fire. Thick, oily smoke began to billow forth as the kobold's clothes caught on fire, the smell of burnt lizard filling the air.

  "Kind of like fried chicken," Alice remarked, sniffing the air. "Although a little too smoky."

  "I guess let's keep going, see if we can figure out what did this? They don't necessarily have to be hostile to us, if they're killing kobolds," Bridgette suggested. Alice nodded and the two women continued walking, this time a little more cautiously.

  As they reached the next hill however, Alice stopped, pointing. A rge snake could be seen about a hundred feet away, slithering into a hole at the base of a tree. "Holy shit, that's a big snake! I didn't think Iowa even had snakes like that!"

  "Yea, there's no way that's from around here. Maybe it's like one of those rich people crazy snakes that escaped from a house? We should probably kill it, though." Bridgette gnced around, trying to find any nearby houses that might have held an enormous snake before shrugging in defeat. "That thing is big enough to eat cows."

  Alice nodded her agreement. "I've never been a fan of snakes, so yea - let's do it. Do we crawl into that hole though? Or what's the pn, oh majestic barbarian of mine?" Bridgette put a hand on her chin, thinking furiously. Alice gnced over, watching the wheels slowly turning in her lover's brain, waiting to see what she decided.

  "Okay, so. I think we should try to smoke it out, something like how we burnt the kobolds. The snake will then come out, at which point we ambush it, we win, and then head back home." Bridgette sounded confident in her pn, so Alice agreed with a nod. The two women searched their inventories, looking for more fmmable materials, before Alice found a bundle of curtains that somehow ended up stored in her mysterious ring. With a shrug, the two women lit the curtains on fire, wadding them into a ball and throwing them as far down the tunnel as they could.

  They then retreated a few steps from the hole, waiting to see what happened. Bridgette stood poised, her greataxe on her shoulder, watching. Several minutes ticked by with outward to show for it, Bridgette quickly growing antsy and bouncing on her toes, growling in frustration.

  "Ssssso rude," a voice came from behind the two women. Alice and Bridgette spun in surprise, seeing a humanoid figure with a snake head standing about twenty paces away, a forked tongue flickering in its mouth. Actually, in _her_ mouth, Alice realized with a start. The humanoid figure was obviously female and was VERY nude, modest breasts on dispy as it stood on the snowly pin. "And ssso cold up here. Come below, pleassse."

  Alice blinked in surprise, gncing at the snake woman who stepped to the side, gesturing at another hole. "Friendsss," the snake woman said. "We hate lizardsss, too. Come below, pleassse."

  Bridgette shouldered past Alice, putting her axe away as she did. She half turned, remarking to Alice, "I mean, they hate lizards, she seems nice, I'm willing to give talking a chance." Alice gnced dubiously at her lover, but rushed to follow. The two women squeezed their way into the tunnel, following the snake woman down underground through several passages. They finally reached a rger opening, about fifty feet on each side with ten foot ceilings. It was surprisingly warm, although as Alice thought about it, she realized that snakes were generally cold-blooded, and so they'd need somepce warm to stay during the winter.

  A small fire pit was roasting what looked like a kobold and two other snake-women stood nearby, huddled near the fire for warmth. Alice gnced around nervously. She really hoped that this turned out to be a friendly encounter, because otherwise the chances of being found by their friends were almost zero. Bridgette gnced around appreciatively, looking to the snake women. "Pleased to meet you all! So you hate the kobolds too, huh? Same with us, we've killed a ton of them over the st few months. Was that your handy-work up top?"

  The first snake-woman they had talked with nodded, confirming that. "Thissss is a kobold den we took for oursssselvessss. Ssssstay warm during winter. Musssst find matesssss."

  Bridgette ughed awkwardly, "Well, if you're looking for mates, you've found the wrong two women for that, I'm afraid."

  "No," the snake-woman crified. "We will take your matessssss." The hissing was starting to sound a bit menacing to Alice, who stood warily behind Bridgette. The tall woman ughed, confused.

  "But we don't have mates," she said. "Or rather, we're each other's mates. She and I," she crified, pointing a thumb back over her shoulder at Alice. "I think you gals are confused."

  "Sssmell men, sssssmell cum. Ssssteal matessss," one of the other snake women said, walking around the room in a menacing fashion until she was behind Alice. Alice could feel the breath of the snake-woman and could swear she felt the flickering of the tongue as the woman spoke. Her skin crawled, being so near the snakes.

  Alice tried to be rational, hoping to break through to the snake-women. "Look, dies. You're confused. We're sorry we tried to smoke you out of here, you're welcome to stay here until it gets warm, but this is our nd. We can help you find a better pce to live, but you're not stealing the men in our vilge. We mean you no harm, though. You just can't stay on my farm."

  "Ssssleep," came the trio of snake voices, and darkness cimed the healer as she stumbled forward into Bridgette, who was also sinking to the floor.

  ---

  Alice blinked her eyes open, trying to shake her head back into wakefulness. She realized with a start that she wasn't able to move her body, being bound head-to-tie by ropes, including several that ran across very sensitive regions of her body. Alice realized she was ying on her back on the floor of the cavern, although appeared to be ying on a rug instead of the bare stone floor. Her hands were tied above her head, arms crossed with her wrists tied to the opposite elbows, and her legs were spread wide and tied to stakes. Further ropes crisscrossed her body, painfully wrapping her breasts and running across her hips with a single rope spreading her lower lips, pressed almost painfully tight into her pussy.

  "Well this is a fine mess you've gotten us into," Alice snarked, gncing down her body to look at Bridgette, who was also lying on the ground, bound in a simir fashion, pressed into Alice.

  "I swear, it wasn't on purpose," Bridgette protested. "I mean, not that I'm necessarily upset at the way this turned out, but ... it definitely didn't start as intentional." She squirmed uncomfortably, bringing a gasp from Alice as the restraints binding the two women together pinched tightly against their pussies, the twisted ropes digging into their soft skin, the bondage keeping them almost fully immobile.

  "Oh fuck," Alice gasped, "This is so cruel. Keep doing that." She tried to squirm her body, grinding her pussy into the rope that split both her lips and Bridgette's lips, the two women scissored together. Bridgette moaned in appreciation, grinding her own body back down into Alice, the ropes creaking as she did so.

  The two women gradually eased into a rhythm, grinding their hips slowly into one another, the heat between their bodies building as the rope became quickly drenched in their combined lusts. The sounds of their moans and the wet rope sliding between their skin echoed off the empty walls of the chamber, the snake women nowhere to be found. Alice bit her lip, staring down at Bridgette - her lover's green eyes fshing with passion as she stared back up at Alice.

  "Fucking hell this is hot," Bridgette gasped, starting to move her hips faster as they continued to scissor their pussies together. The two women's eyes stayed fixed on one another, grunts and moans rising as they felt themselves starting to come undone. The ropes binding them almost seemed to tighten as they thrust their bodies at one another even faster, the wet fibers digging into their clitorises and pulling them even closer to the edge. Alice's body trembled furiously, her eyes starting to roll back in her head as Bridgette's face twisted, thrusting herself into the rope and her lover as hard as she possibly could.

  At the moment of their combined release, Alice and Bridgette both shuddered, a nearly electric current of passion passing between the two women as their bodies convulsed, the orgasms rocking the women as moans ripped from their throats. Minutes ter, the two women came back to their senses, their breath coming in gasps and their bodies drenched in sweat. Bridgette twisted, the ropes snapping and falling apart as she rose to her feet. She reached down, quickly untying Alice and helping her lover to her feet.

  "Wait, you could get free that easily?" Alice asked, blinking in surprise.

  "Oh yea, those ropes were absolute shit. Low quality fibers, too thin for properly restraining someone, and their knots? Laughable. A third-grader could tie tighter knots than that," Bridgette said, giving a thorough expnation for the terrible restraints.

  Alice gnced suspiciously at Bridgette. "So uh, did something about the whole bondage scissoring thing loosen the knots, or what?"

  With a ugh, Bridgette shook her head in the negative. "Oh no, not at all. They were shit from the start. But the opportunity to be tied up with you like that, scissoring each other to a screaming orgasm? THAT was fucking hot. And if we were ever in any real danger, I'd have broken free and kept us safe."

  Arms crossed, Alice gred at her lover. "I thought we were truly captured and was starting to panic about being unable to break free. You could have said something!"

  "Sure, babe. I could tell you were really panicked, which is why your reaction in a prisoner situation was to try to fuck me, not brainstorm how to escape." Bridgette ughed, rolling her eyes, then gnced around looking for her clothing. She saw her combat mini-dress tucked into a corner nearby, along with Alice's dress. Bridgette trotted over, grabbing the clothing and stashing her dress away. Instead, she took out a pair of leggings and a t-shirt from her storage ring, the shirt magically transforming itself.

  Bridgette's shirt had crossed bondage designs twisting along the front of the thin white shirt, giving the impression that she was wearing the bondage on top of her clothing. If one looked closely however, the bondage design appeared to be snakes wrapped around Bridgette's body, not ropes. A logo appeared across the side of the shirt, pink snake figures twisting into letters. "Slithering Scissor Sisters Bondage Society!"

  Alice donned her regur dress, ughing wryly at Bridgette's shirt as the two women took stock of the cave. It looked like many of the kobold dens they had explored over the st few months, with no sign of the lizard creatures or the mysterious snake women anywhere to be found. They found two different passageways back up to the surface although again no sign of any other inhabitants, with snow beginning to come down the tunnels. Alice wasn't even able to find footprints or any indication that anyone else had entered the tunnels with them.

  Confused, the two women reached the surface and gnced around. There were no other footsteps in the snow nor trails from snakes nearby. It was as though the snake women had vanished. Bridgette shrugged, holding her body as she shivered, as she gnced to Alice. "Fuck it, let's go back. It's too cold out here to mess around for long. Wherever the snake women are, they're gone. If they come back, we'll do better at stopping them. And as long as they stay away from the farm, we'll leave them alone."

  Alice looked at her lover, Bridgette's lips turning blue and nipples hard against the cold January wind in her thin shirt. "You know, you could have put your dress back on instead. It's meant to keep you warm, it's magic. You chose to see what t-shirt Fi would give you. But sure, let's go back. It's probably fine." The two women turned, retracing their steps back to Alice's farm and walking together across the snow-covered ndscape, Bridgette quickly stripping herself naked and throwing her dress back on before she froze, the magical garment helping keep the barbarian warm.

  Dozens of feet below them in the kobold den, the discarded bondage ropes shivered and twisted, coiling into three separate bundles before transforming back into the three snake-women. The first snake-woman looked to her sisters, forked tongue flickering out as she raised a hand and licked it, still wet with the combined fluids of the two adventurers. "Ssssuch sssexual creaturessss," she said. "We approve. Let ussss find another pce and leave them be."