The hallucinogenic pollen also took time to take effect. After fifteen minutes, the ticks that had been dusted with pollen along the two-headed serpent's tail began to loosen one after another—it looked like they were sufficiently anesthetized.
Albert lifted his hand lightly. At once, the little spiders responded, leaping and swarming onto the giant snake's tail, feasting with gusto. Slurp, slurp—they eagerly devoured the plump insects that had already been knocked senseless by the pollen.
"Eat the bugs—woohoo!"
They were delighted beyond measure.
With their fuzzy chelicerae, the little spiders effortlessly tugged out ticks whose entire heads were buried beneath the snake's skin, happily tearing into their bursting bellies. Because the ticks had been feeding on the two-headed serpent's blood all along, whenever a spider bit into one, a splash of fresh blood would spurt from the split abdomen.
