“What is that thing!?” Sadeline asked, horrified.
“A soft bodied and shell-less marine gastropod mollusk-an electric fanged sea slug.” Ricky gasped through his sobs. Man-maid (who had mysteriously climbed the ladder without Sadeline noticing) laid him out on deck, then grabbed a knife from Wesley's hand and began to hack the sea slug apart.
“I just wanted to see it up close, I didn't think that it would get me like that!” Ricky bawled, watching man-maid rip the slug to shreds with the knife. He and Wesley worked to peel the thing from his arm, until all that remained was a large pile of twitching pink and turquoise tentacles on top of a pile of goop.
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