Awesome story and awesome bit of writing. Cutting that first egg must have been like winning the lottery. This miss on the Viper probably made it all that much sweeter!

The sunset... SO SMOKING! WOW!

The combinations on that are going to be very wicked. I'm especially eager to see what that looks like with some darker morphs. If that deep orange/red color patterns itself with dark colors instead of 'mixing'... MAN! Can you say Diablo ball python?