[As soon as the squirming begins, the tendrils around Rei's legs sieze, squeeze tight enough to bruise as the ones caressing his chest snap back around his wrists to pull his arms apart.

(a pull hard enough to be painful, to leave an ache that lingers deep in the bones, to pull the other being further still into his body)]

Ah, careful, Shingetsu.

Human bodies are quite breakable, aren't they?

[A few thin feelers rise out of the pool, snake up Shingetsu's back to curl over his face, to flit over his lips.]