"Ah, there you are.  If you would, mind helping me out with this?  You know her far better than I do, and with what happened today, I don't want to risk the spells falling apart before we're ready."<br/><br/>Cocking its head, the serpent flitted over and settled on Kellus' shoulder, laying one wing across her head.  Aria could feel it working along with her, sending careful tendrils of magic spiraling into Kellus alongside her own.  After a few moments it withdrew, and shook its head slightly.<br/><br/>"They've certainly been weakened rather significantly.  It won't take long to reinforce them back to their former strength, but that's more degradation in one day than they've seen in the past three months.  What happened?"<br/><br/>"As it turns out, the restaurant and spa that we visited happened to be owned by her old friends.  I had no idea, else I would have taken more precautions before going there."  Stretching before leaning back in the tub, Aria looked down at Kellus in concern.  "And what's more, they have a newborn child, and something happened with their pregnancy such that she has memories of before their encounter with the Queen's magic."<br/><br/>"That's...well, it explains what happened with the spells.  But still, if they should fail entirely, and Kellus' powers return in full before she's ready, she'll be naught but food for the queen, and in so doing forfeit her strength, myself included, to her."  The pair lapsed into silence as they considered the implications of the day's events, but it wasn't long before Kellus' eyes slowly opened again.  Resuming right where she had left off as if nothing had happened, it was her turn to give Aria a massage, her quartet of hands working expertly over and across Aria's upper torso.<br/><br/>Aria had far more in mind for the evening than just an enjoyable bath however, and after drying themselves off both of the nagas made their way back into the main room, where Aria's dinner waited for them - another pair of more conventional nagas, bound with digestible leather straps and kept quiescent by Aria's spellcraft.  It was their anniversary, after all, and she had wanted it to be a night to remember.  Judging from the way that Kellus' eyes lit up in delight even as her tailmaw gaped wide, she had succeeded.  Closing over the head and shoulders of her meal, the ravenous naga wasted no time in devouring the slightly smaller serpent, the jaws of her tailmaw working in an easy, steady rhythm further and further down the length of her meal as the powerful muscles of her gullet clenched and squeezed in eager anticipation.<br/><br/>By contrast, Aria had something quite different in mind for hers, but the end result would be much the same regardless.  Sliding up close, the naga looked up at her with a dazed and uncomprehending expression even as Aria slid a hand behind her head.  Pulling the naga up against her, the lips of her nethers easily spread to accomodate her head, and Aria couldn't help but give a coo of hungry satisfaction as the naga's shoulders followed.  Before her meal became nothing more than a sizable bulge stretching out the scales of her underbelly, Kellus closed her jaws around the tail of her catch and entwined herself around Aria.  Watching in fascination as her mate made a meal of a naga of similar size with nothing but the muscles of her voracious womb, even as she enjoyed the squirming and struggling coming from within her.  Leaning back and smiling as her arms entwined with Kellus', Aria's hips and midsection flexed and rocked back and forth, and with every sucking clench, another foot of her meal was pulled from sight.  Soon enough, all that was left of the pair of naga was just the tips of their tail protruding from the larger predators, and as they shared a long, tender kiss, their bellies flexed in concert as they finished off their dinner.<br/><br/>Retreating to the bedroom, the pair were quickly entwined and coiled together on the spacious bed, and it didn't take long for their post-meal lethargy to usher the two into slumber.  The next morning both were still sporting the barest hints of the previous night's feast, but for the most part both occupants had been wholly converted to a bit of extra padding and pleasant memories.