i hope you're alright, because i'm not okay

"Speech"

Well that was disconcerting. Malachai saw Grimshaw turn towards him and stare at him for a moment, ooze dripping from his slightly agape mouth and for a painful moment they held eye contact, and then slowly, ever so slowly Malachai lowered his gaze, to a pile of teeth, canine teeth.

Grimshaw's movement caught his eye though and he was moving before he knew what he was doing and Malachai flashed out a forepaw to try and catch Grimshaw's forepaw to stop him from rubbing at his eye. "Hey! Nope, you stop that!" He had visions of his cousins, mushrooms, and crystals covering their eyes and he wasn't about to let his friend aggravate that.