"After all," Lalo said shaking her head in a determined fashion, "what can you do with such a monster as that? He is too destructive, even here. He revels in doing wrong and destroying others lives. It makes him happy to see them suffer. Other people's suffering is like air to him."
"Yes." Owl agreed"there is nothing left but to end his days here. No one can help that one, not even God. He's had his chances; you gave him too many, and look at how he has repaid you. He killed and ate your best friend, created chaos in your household, stole your money and nearly sucked your energy dry. I would have killed him a long time ago if I were in charge of him. You were too generous with him my dear."
King Snake lounged in his house, which was really his prison as he listened to them. In his overconfidence he thought he still had a chance to go on as he always had. "Hah!. She always tries "one more time" with me no matter how bad I've been. She never gives up on a soul no matter how awful they are. She won't let me go." He hissed to himself with a smug smile on his lips. He slithered onto his big rock and curled up into a coil. Closing his closed his eyes to nap in the warm afternoon sunlight streaming through the glass roof of his domain, feeling safe and secure in these thoughts.
"I'm afraid that is the case this time Owl, he has played his last mean trick, there is not one iota of anything real in him, there never was. You've been right all along. It was all a game to him, he is not worth wasting any more time and energy on. His schemes have caused too much destruction. There's nothing left to do, but to put an end to it."
~ from the final chapter of "King Snake" , from the Lalo the Snake Catcher Stories, written by LL.
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