They swarmed quietly, connecting with each other’s tentacles to communicate, sharing information between individuals and across individuals. They were discussing their latest discovery, something that had come to visit. Some things, really, since there were more than one.

“You touched it?”

“Yes.”

“You shouldn’t be going around touching things we don’t know about, youngling”

“I wanted to see what it tasted like and if it could communicate.”

“How many appendages did it have?”

“Only 5.”

“Oh! One of those. You shouldn’t trust those.”

“Why not?”

“They eat us sometimes we have heard. Describe what you saw.”

“It had 5 appendages, all of them seemed very stiff and they could only move at certain points. They used only two for touching, two for moving, and the last one had a tentacle going into it with OtherWorld stuff floating out to the OtherWorld. It was the same color the whole time.”

“It did not change colors? Clearly not intelligent life!”

“It didn’t seem very smart. It appeared from Otherworld and went back to Otherworld pretty fast. I tried communicating with it but all it did was stay very still. I think it was playing dead but it wasn’t very good at it.”

“We are hearing that they are coming more often. We should be careful.”