Daily character sketch: The Lamia

Rael, welcome, we are The Lamia of the pool...

In the surreal and euphoric rock opera The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by the, then, epic progressive rock band Genesis, Rael Imperial has slipped the Supernatural Anaesthetist, led there by the blind Lillywhite Lilith; who helped him escape the Chamber of Thirty-Two Doors...

Yeah, it's like that the whole album.

Anyway, he comes to a calm pool in a cavern guarded by "three vermillion snakes of female face" known as The Lamia.

Laying in wait, they seduce any traveler, and, in the throws of passion, eat of him; leaving him in a uniquely disquieted state. Then they die and the cavern goes dark until the next traveler comes by, and it starts all over again.

Performing The Lamia, here, is the Genesis tribute band, Garden Wall; during their 2007 tour of the rock opera:

Eh... I just thought half snake women would be hot.