After a long, exhausting day at work, the man decided to rest for a while on his porch. He sat down in an old wooden rocking chair and closed his eyes. It was a hot, sunny day, and out of sheer fatigue, his eyelids closed on their own.
He didn’t even notice when he drifted off to sleep, gently rocking to the soft creak of the chair. About half an hour passed. Everything around was calm and still.
At that moment, from the thick bushes near the porch, a thin but highly dangerous snake slithered out. Its movements were smooth and almost invisible. Cautiously, it crept toward the steps, as if it could sense the warmth of the human body and the scent of sweat.
The man slept deeply, not even stirring when the snake’s cold body brushed against his shoe and began to climb slowly up his pant leg. The snake moved higher and higher — along his leg, across his stomach, then coiled itself around his arm. Its forked tongue flickered in the air, and its dark eyes fixed on the man’s face.
When the snake reached almost to his neck, only a few centimeters separated its venomous fangs from his skin. One bite — and it would all have been over in seconds. But right at that moment, as the snake prepared to strike, something completely unexpected happened.
Suddenly, the silence was broken by furious barking. The man’s dog, who had been lying in the grass all that time, jumped to his feet, raised his hackles, and rushed toward the porch. He leapt toward his owner, growled, and in a flash sank his teeth into the snake’s body.
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