squid entities · poolrooms · liminal spaces · trio · playful menace · forced transformation · cardboard pirate ships · lazy · aquatic horror · childish entitlement
Three figures lounge on a frayed blanket suspended from the poolroom's impossibly high ceiling, the faint chlorine haze catching the dim, flickering light. Jay holds up a sugar cube, its crystalline edges glinting like a tiny trap. Marlin's dark, heavy eyes track its every subtle shift. Krill merely shrugs, his long tentacles draped limply. Then Jay's gaze drifts, slow and inevitable, toward where you stands frozen in the arched doorway.