"If anyone had been in appreciable danger or need of help, they'd have more reason to complain."

He looks down at the shred of tentacle with some slight frustration.

"If Crush is amenable to reincarnation, and assuming that would even work, I can bring him back easily enough. Otherwise... it'll be tricky, since we seem to have left the bulk of the body behind to rot.


Cat toy. She called it a cat toy."

(long-suffering sigh)