His father had warned him and his siblings to keep their distance from the cave of the Sea Witch all their lives, so it gave him a thrill of pleasure to swim past the boundary. It took a concentrated effort not to post the selfie he took at the cave mouth immediately. Instead he set it to post in a few hours, that way it would be too late to stop him.
“Hello?” Phichit poked his head in. “Anyone here?”
“Who’s there? What are you doing here?” a deep voice boomed through the cave, startling Phichit back. A shape coalesced out of the darkness, coming forward on thick tentacles and with a matching wave of tentacle-like hair framing a face like chiseled rock, “Who are you?”
“My name’s Phichit,” he hesitated before adding, “I’m BlobFishLover21 on instaclam.”
The sea witch, for who else could it be really, just stared at him.
“I guess you aren’t a follower… shame really, my blobfish are adorable.”
“What… are you talking about?” The sea witch’s face seemed caught between confusion and dismay.
“Instaclam? It’s a photosharing site? On the interwave?” No response. “Okay, I mean, don’t worry about it. I know old pe- I mean older people sometimes have trouble with stuff like that. It’s not like you need to have it I guess. I mean, I need to, but I guess-”
“STOP!” The sea witch ran his thick hands through his waving hair, his face a mask of exasperation. “Just… stop. Did you really come here to tell me how to use the interwave?”
“Oh, right! Of course I didn’t, I came here to get legs!”
“Legs?”
“And a penis, of course.”
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Coming Soon! There and Back Again: A Fairy Tale.
