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 Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:21 pm
"Can bearly breath now," he laughed, "Lungs shrinkin'... somet'in'." His face twitched and he raised a tentacle to rub at the flesh under his eye where his nervious twitch tended to focus. "S'pose... we'll be seein'... a lo' o' eachother, eh? Fish gotta'... stick t'gether?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:30 pm
Sid laughed to try and hide the dismay that came with the confirmation. He was afraid of that, and so once again he was left wondering why the hell he asked these things. "Yeh," he said weakly. "Ssschool t'getha..."
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:45 pm
Although Billy seemed fairly coherent that night, his next statement betrayed his seemingly collected exterior. He drew in as deep a sigh as he could with his shrunken lungs, his head lolling to the side as he slid deeper into the shallow water over his flat rock. "I miss... women."
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:56 pm
"Yeh..." Sid sighed. He bent forward a little to stare at his feet, just so he could admire his toes. They were still perfectly, blissfully normal, if a bit gnarled thanks to the cruel machinations of time and shoes.
"Back befoh... I coulda gah a girl wif low standahds. Now..." His toes curled in against his sandals. "Theah... There'ss nah enough alcohol in the worl'..."
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:04 pm
At that, Billy gave a low, amused chuckle, eyes focussing off at something in the distance.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:21 pm
"Shoulda brough' beer," Sid muttered after a little bit of silence passed.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:30 pm
"Psst," Billy wove a tentacle, urging the fish-man to come closer conspirationally.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:38 pm
Sid leaned closer. Friendship or no, he still wasn't quite comfortable with that. "Wha'?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:39 pm
"Y'know.... Big Red's... gel'y friend?" His mouth split into a lecherous grin.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:42 pm
"Uhh..." Sid spent long pause worrying if he did and had maybe forgotten. "No."
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:48 pm
Billy didn't seem to care either way, giggling in his deluded dream world, "She loves me."
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:06 pm
Sid nodded slowly. He would have given Billy the same reaction if he told him he had a pet unicorn. "Thas cool," he said. He surprised himself by sounding sincere.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:18 pm
"Big red, he don' like tha'... one bit..." He giggled, "S'why... he nixed... me wossname," He giggled, "Tentacles, temlicles," Flicker, buzz, and Billy sagged slightly, but reached to light a second cigarette from the still burning filter of the first.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:21 pm
"I don't understand," Sid said. He couldn't quite make the leap from tentacles to testicals from what Billy muttered, and as far as he could tell Billy had had all his tentacles... Unless he'd been wrong and he was actually some kind of mangled squid. He looked at Billy's appendages a little more closely, but he just couldn't see that. Any idiot who could count could see he wasn't.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:28 pm
"Di' y'know... octopussies... reproduce by... squirtin' this... wee gell sack from a tentacle?" He giggled, lifting up the tentacle in question. "I din' neither."
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