“Yeah, I guess.” LA quirked his brows.
“Would you like to… come over?” Cass’s tail twitched. “You can absolutely say no, but I do have a large tub. Well, it’s not large forme, but it would be for you.”
LA cracked a grin. “You want me to come over for a bubble bath?”
“And snuggles. If you’d like.” Cass fidgeted. “I thought, maybe, you’d like to get out for a little bit and I could show you my home and… stuff.”
“I would love to.” LA smiled. “Am I gonna be staying the night? I don’t want to assume—”
“Yes!” Cass squeaked. “If, if you’d like.”
“I would.” LA kissed him. “Just give me a second to pack a bag, okay?”
“Okay!” Cass practically trembled with excitement and then he appeared mildly horrified. “How about you go pack and I’ll come pick you up in, like, ten—no, uh, twenty minutes?”
LA smirked. “Gotta clean?”
“Oh, so very, very badly.”
LA chuckled and kissed him again. “Go on. I’ll be waitin’ for you.”
“Be back soon!” Cass hugged LA and then disappeared in a poof of confetti.
LA headed upstairs to find a small duffle bag and pack a few changes of clothes. He didn’t want to assume what exactly they might do over in monster land, but he wanted to have some options. He got his toiletries and meds packed, and he almost threw in the bottle of rum.
He smiled to himself and then set it back down.
Nah, he didn’t need it.
Just as he left the kitchen to return to the living room, Cass reappeared in a flurry of rainbow sparkles. He was out of breath and panting, but he was smiling and seemed pleased with himself.
“Ready to go?” Cass asked.
“Yeah, are you okay?” LA teased. “Did you run a marathon on the way here?”
“What? No. I’m a little winded from cleaning and… Oh right!” Cass giggled and reached for LA’s hand. “Okie dokie, here we go!”
Only as the living room exploded in a sea of rainbow confetti did LA realize he probably should have asked more questions about traveling to a monster world.
His vision blurred and then went dark, and he was falling. He tried to climb up Cass, terrified of hitting whatever inevitable bottom was coming his way, but then his feet were suddenly on solid ground once more and…
He was standing in a living room.
The furniture was simple but plush, there were shelves full of books, and the curtains had tiny rainbows on them. It was colorful, warm, and felt incredibly homey. He might need a step stool to climb up on the couch, as everything was scaled to someone of Cass’s size, but it did look really comfortable.
LA was drawn to the window to peek outside, curious what monster land was like.
It looked…
Huh. Pretty normal actually.
The sky was a warm shade of pinkish-orange and the clouds were yellow, but other than that it looked like any other small neighborhood. Okay, and the trees were magenta with purple leaves, but at least the grass was green, though it looked a bit like shag carpet. There were lots of houses and cars, big ones, no doubt to accommodate large imp bodies, and it was all very similar to any other slice of suburbia LA had ever seen.
Although, obviously, there were monsters everywhere.
LA saw two imps gardening in their yard, some sort of skull-headed beast checking their mail, and a lizard creature walking a small critter covered in big spikes.
“Wow.” LA laughed. “Uh, so, this is a monster neighborhood, huh?”
