A girl kept a huge python in her house: one day the snake started acting strangely, stopped eating and wrapped itself around the owner’s waist, and then the girl learned something terrible about it.
When she first brought the python home, the girl thought she was rescuing more than just an animal—she was saving herself from loneliness. She named the snake Saffron, after the pale yellow speckles scattered across its scales like drops of sunlight. For three years, the two were inseparable. Her friends would gasp when she carried … Read more