Chapter 14: Favorites
The kid stood still and stared at Nick for several long and tense moments with his bow drawn.
"W-what do you know?!" He eventually cried out, but he didn't let the arrow fly. Instead, he lowered his bow and turned around, sprinting back into the forest's darkness.
Nick let out a deep sigh of relief and slumped down on the porch stairs with the tentacle next to him.
While he knew he hadn't been about to die since the tentacle was there to save him, it had still been a precarious situation. He had also saved the reckless kid from getting killed by the tentacle.
Nick felt a little odd.
But when he looked at the tentacle, he gradually found himself calming down.
"Hey," he started saying. It was pretty clear by now that the tentacle didn't hold any ill intent toward him. If anything, it wanted to take care of him or something along those lines, and Nick didn't think it was because it wanted to fatten him up before eating him.
Whatever the tentacle monster was, Nick had no reason to think it wanted him anything bad.
The tentacle looked at him curiously, eager ot hear what he wanted to say.
"First of all, thank you."
The tentacle just wagged its tip like it was waving off Nick's gratitude. It was too much for something so small.