Illustration circa 1690 by Johann Ulrich Kraus (1655-1719)
Why did Ursula try to prevent Jackie from shooting the wyrm? What makes Marcus even more sour than usual? And when is Calpurnia going to go clothes shopping? More problems fall upon our unlucky team of magicians as they try to keep Great Yarmouth from being burnt to the ground. But help is about to arrive from a very unexpected quarter in chapter 16, “Students of nature and magic,” this week’s addition to As the Wyrm Tyrns, my serial novel about the dangers of undomesticated fire-breathing supernatural creatures.
Sillyverse 
Nah, as wyrms go, they’re shrimplings; hardly bigger than adders. Okay, quite a bit bigger than adders. But not much bigger than grass snakes.
They are supposed to be copulating snakes, illustrating the incident that caused Tiresias to be transformed into a woman, which in this depiction seems to have already happened.
Someone had not seen snakes copulating! While, yes, they do wreath and writhe around each other, they do so with full body contact. It is a very sensual sight!
Although . . . if a man can change into a woman, I suppose there could once have been a species of very acrobatic snakes. Sadly, we understand they were hunted to extinction by low-flying helicopters.
I’m marking that up as my grin of the day. I thank you.