Lalita Finding Entertainment

Lalita grumbled at her boredness. She was piled up among a tangled mass of vines in the crotch of a tree in the jungle trees, holding still and thus blending in wonderfully with her surroundings.  If she moved one would have been amazed at how easily such a big animal could hide. Lalita herself was fairly unaware of this at the moment, deep in thought. Thus, when a monkey came nearby it didn't notice her at all. The chattering animal immediately caught her interest. The monkey was scampering along a vine right across from Lalita, and the big python smiled with her scaley lips.
"In a hurry?" Lalita asked kindly, grabbing the monkey's attention. The monkey stopped quickly and looked at the source of the voice, not quite recognizing Lalita for what she was. Until her eyes shone with a strange light. One couldn't quite describe how her eyes seemed to be different, but they were. The monkey stared at the pair of strange orbs, confused by them. Many people consider monkeys highly intelligent, but are more often curious and a nuisance. By the time the monkey realized that he had met a serpent with far greater powers than he, it was too late. The monkey was completely frozen in place, staring fixedly at Lalita's large attracting eyes. Lalita grinned, pleased with her abilities. Monkeys were fairly weakly willed, and it wasn't hard to take over his mind. He would stay glued to that spot until something woke him or she ordered him otherwise. Monkeys were such easy prey!

Lalita smiled. This could provide her with excellent entertainment. But she'd need another playmate, so she waited, trying to hide her smile. A few minutes later, another monkey came swinging along the branches. As I mentioned before, monkeys are terribly curious animals. They rarely sit still and can't consentrate on anything for any long period of time. So when the new monkey came along and saw another of its kind sitting as still as a rock and staring intently as something it was naturally interested. Anything interesting enough to keep one of his brothers as fixated as this must be worth his attention. So the new monkey, who we will call Chip, and the first, Chat, came over to his companion. Chip looked at Chat curiously, wondering what he was looking at. Chip babbled in his monkey language, but to his surprise got no response at all. Chat hadn't so much as flinched. It was as if Chip wasn't there. Chip tilted his head curiously and turned to where Chat was looking. All Chip saw was bark and vines and... and... Chip saw something that he couldn't quite describe shining at him, something that held his attention more than anything he had ever looked at before. It was pretty, very pretty...

A few seconds later, Lalita chuckled in delight. Chip was now sitting as stock still as his companion, in a complete trance. It was lucky for her how curious and dull-witted monkey's were. If not, she might have remained bored for a good time longer! She gazed at her catches with intent eyes, wondering what she should do with them. Then she got an idea.
"Sssslavessss, I order you to danccce." she said authoritively yet softly. The two monkeys then began dancing in their own way individually. As far as either of them knew in their entranced state, the other wasn't there. Lalita giggled. How entertaining monkeys were when they weren't chattering and throwing things. These two had obviously been having fun with their dear King Louis. They certainly knew how to dance!
"Ssslavesss, now you will danccce with eachother." she commanded. At this order they began to swing with eachother hand in hand through the vines in curious ways as only monkeys can. They looped and jumped, leaping and bouncing as they would at the biggest partying sessions in the ruins with King Louis. But at the moment they had a new master who they couldn't disobey.
"Now... pleassse ssstand next to eachother." Lalita ordered. At her words the stood next to eachother as if they were soldiers at attention. Luckily they were now on a sturdy branch so Lalita could do what she wished to do. She took her tail and rested it on their shoulders, making them bend under the weight. The huge python smiled, her tail now curling and pulling her two entertainment pieces together. With only two coils she had them firmly pinned together. They were two small to be meals and wouldn't last her long. So she decided that she could use them for another form of entertainment. At the moment her coils were holding them up. At a subtle hiss she released them from her hypnotic spell. A moment passed and the pair of monkeys looked around in wonder. They had no idea where they were or what had been happening. Then Lalita let her coils weigh them down. The two monkeys screached in surprise,  doing their best to stand but doing a poor job. They were so small and her coils so big that they quickly slumped to their heels. By now they were aware that it was a large snake that had them and they continued to squeak and screech in terror. But this would earn them nothing. Lalita enjoyed the ease of power that she held over them.

"Oh, you don't need to screech like that you little impssss. It'ssss quite irritating. I'll have to fix that." she said calmly. With that her coils gave a sudden squeeze, silencing the monkeys with surprising speed. They could breathe enough to breathe but not enough to chatter or scream. So precise was Lalita's muscle control that she could press with almost exact pressure with terrific ease. She had earned this skill through years of playing with her various prey, mostly enjoying squeezing it. She rarely used her hypnosis. She enjoyed using her raw strength to squish the life out of her little snacks. These two however would merely be pawns to her however. She liked to be feared, and these two would definitely help her spread word of her abilities. She then lifted the two monkeys in the air and flung them through the vines. To her it was a casual flick, but to them it was being thrown by a giant. After about 30 feet they stopped flying and fumbled for handholds on the tree bark and vines. They moved faster than they ever had before in their lives. In their hasty panic they bumped into leaves, branches and eventually eachother. Their tiny heads smacked into eachother and they both fell a distance to the ground. Luckily they were uninjured and quickly ran screaming in opposite directions into the jungle. Lalita rolled in laughter at their antics, her coils folding over other branches. What a spectacle! Her mouth was held wide open in delighted laughter, almost falling out of the tree at one point. What delightful fun, playing with monkeys! No doubt they would spread rumors about their fantastic incident, about how they woke in her coils and were thrown about as if they were toys. They would surely make some errors in their stories, but that would just make her seem that much more mystical. Soon she would find another hapless animal of the jungle and inquire them about their knowledge of her. Then she could have yet more fun with her various snacks!