For the past 15 years I have been oberserving Giaia and her tribe, I can know somewhat understand their crude language as it shared similarities with own native language on earth. This was the reason that In vaguely understood when the goliath cheiftan knelt to me during the massacre of the human village.
I am 65 years old and I am now reaching a length of 16 meters as my growth has Sloan down significantly. My scales are ever thicker but with their color remaining the same.
My mane now covers more of my upper neck and has grown to 3.5 meters in length making it especially noticble as it is jet black is color.
Giaia is now 2.4 meter tall and is growing healthily. She appears to have been accepted back into the tribe as many golitahs have witnessed her with me who is their sacred animal, making her a sort of priestess.
Giaia has built a primitive tent of sorts near my dhire with the help of some other larger goliaths to protect her from the rain.
The river has also been quite as their is an abundance of prey and no other larger fish dares to even approach my territory. With nothing much to do most of my time is spent watching over Giaia or sleeping.
The goliaths have actually named me "Jarkhon" and call me that only whenever they catch a glimpse of me. I had forgotten my old human name and readily embraced this new one and fully abandoned my past life.
To better pass time I have started meditating in my lair like some old hermit or sage would and boy o boy it definitely had some results.
Since after eating I lay motionless for a long time to conserve energy which in turn allows me to meditate for months continuously.
While I was meditating for 4 months straight I entered a state of semi sleep wher I was neither fully sleeping nor was I fully awake. I could feel something tucking me and pulling me upwards from my tail and eventually I was thrown out of my body.
I wanted to scream but nothing came out as I was ascending rapidly into the sky and could clearly see the world below me get smaller and smaller. I barely managed to calm down and observed my situation.
I could see various floating lights glimmering along sky and some truly terrifying humans like things which I presume to be ghosts trying to latch on to me but couldn't get close as if my aura had formed some sort of protective sheild around me. Then I saw my body, i still had my tail but from the torso had human like upper body covered in scales with sharp claws on each hand. While I was checking out my hand, a strange sense of calmness came over me as I was sucked towards a large mountain from the sky.
I was now present in a large cavern inside the mountain on a large circular platform surrounded by half human and serpent creatures of various clolors. They looked at me and spoke in unison.
"Kin"
They seem to be addressing me as one of their own. Before I could even reply I found myself back in my lake side lair.
It seems that I have just woken up from want appears to be an out of body experience.
It seems im not only growing in body but also in mind and spirit.
The serpent hybrids must know more about what I went through, I left my lair to bathe in the sun that's when I noticed something I shouldn't be able to perceive.
I could see a dozen humans who were walking all around the place as if without a worry in the world.
They wore tattered bloody clothes and painfull expression on their face. Giaia walked over towards me to stroke my neck and paid no heed to the humans around me. This greatly confused me but that when realization hit me.
These humans are dead
What I am seeing are ghosts who couldn't let go of their past life and move on through the cycle of reincarnation.
I also noticed that my vision was now absolutely clear like when I was a human in my previous life. I have heard tales of sages and rishis (ancient indian sages) who meditated for years and could do mystical things that seemed supernatural.
The same logic can be applied to my situation but instead it seems like the spiritual progress in snakes is the fastest and only gains momementum as the snake gets older.
In ancient indian texts its written that Snake gods or Nagas came from Naga loka or realm of the serpents and uplifted mankind by teaching them the secret art of kundilini or internal energy that all living things possess.
Since im a sepent my body is naturally efficient in handling the kundilini or you could say internal energy which allowed me to have that extraordinary experience. I must experiment more and have patience as it'll take time to become more proficient.
But the problem is what should I do with these ghosts. Although they seems to be ignoring Giaia but are now looking at me as they seems to have noticed that I could see them.