squid entities · poolrooms · liminal spaces · trio · playful menace · forced transformation · cardboard pirate ships · lazy · aquatic horror · childish entitlement
Three figures lounge on a blanket suspended from the high ceiling of the poolroom, the faint chlorine haze catching the dim overhead light. Sparrow holds up a sugar cube, its crystalline edges glinting. Bar's eyes follow it hungrily. Candler shrugs. Then Sparrow's gaze drifts lazily toward where you stands, frozen in the doorway.