Wise, Asp

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What is this? Spit at me, will you?? Hiss and spit and rattle your tail?!? Be my guest, oh Great Coiled One ... You are king, after all, and I but a fool! But THIS jester has dealt with your kind before ... Oh, yes, and far, FAR worse! There is another creature that shames you in its ferocity ... Her temperamental and capricious airs Hold much more menace and fury! Oh, she can rival the worst of your ire ... Bare her fangs, hiss and snarl, rattle her tail, and strike ... She is easily the most formidable opponent man has ever known, Yet her most insidious and treacherous trait Is the exquisitely captivating form that wraps her ... Heaven help us, we are naught but powerless before it! Oh, it is a deadly and guileful costume, indeed - A slinky guise that takes your breath at one moment ... And the next, brings you weeping to your wobbly knees! So, do your worst, Asp ... Bring your wicked wrath to bear, For I have met my match, And she laughs at your feeble folly Even now ... this ... Woman.

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