“Can I come under the sheets with you?”
Kai scooted back.“Yeah.”
In an almost comical way, the tentacles made the sheets and duvet bulge.That’s cute,Kai thought, and before long, he lay there giggling.
“What?”Fian asked.
“It’s just all your tentacles.I think the bed is too small for you.”
“Small is good.I can fit in small spaces.Can I hold you?I’ll be gentle.”
“Okay.”
Several tentacles came for Kai under the sheets, winding around his ankles and legs, his waist and arms, and when Fian pulled him closer, he even managed to get one around Kai’s shoulders so that Kai was bedded on it.
“Is that okay?”
“You burrito wrapped me.”
Fian went red and brown and pink.“Well…”
“It’s fine.Can you get the lights?”
Fian hit the switch with his hand, and once the room was dark, Kai drifted off fast.He felt safe, tentacle-wrapped as he was.
Kai dreamed of flying through a starry sky, wildly beautiful, colors flashing and twisting into dazzling maelstroms.
“Do you like it?”
He turned, and on his right, chest bare and all his tentacles out, was Fian.He had one tentacle wound around Kai’s hand.
“It’s gorgeous.And we’re flying.What is this?”
On their left, the moon came into view, but it was larger than the real thing, so large in fact that Kai could spot people on there, small as ants.
“We call this the Sky Park.I think the name is bland, but I like the place.”Fian twisted and coiled his tentacles in the air.“And we’re not flying as such.We call this controlled falling.Which means we’ll land soon.”
“Falling?”Kai looked around, tearing his eyes off the neon sky.
Below, there was the ocean, much like the ocean he knew.He saw the beach, and then they hit a cloud, slightly moist and cool, feathery soft against his hands.
“Don’t be scared, we’ll be through it soon.”Fian was just a shape in the cottony white, but his tentacle still clasped Kai’s hand.
“I’m not scared.This is kind of nice.Oh!”
They sailed through the bottom of the cloud, the ground now closer.There were lights there, bright and strobing.Kai spotted several tents, like circus tents, a roller coaster, and overlooking the ocean, a large Ferris wheel.
“That’s the Carnival.It’s where I’m taking you.”
Fian had smile lines around his eyes, and the tentacle part of him was bluish blacks and purples, a few pink spots.Just like underwater, his chest was gorgeous.
Kai looked at himself, but he was dressed in the clothes they’d bought at the mall.
“Thank fuck I’m not naked.”
Fian giggled.“I made sure of that.I thought you’d prefer this to something made from seashells.Less friction, less opportunity to pinch anything that’s sensitive.”
“Thank you for that.Uh, we’re getting sort of close to the ground.Are we going faster?”
