<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0000">Shifter tilted his head as the tentacles hit the ground, though the ball shaped object made a question mark appear over his head for a moment. "What the..." he says to himself before finding himself being hugged, not realizing that the pleasure had caused his spines to be flat against his back when he tried to make himself relaxed earlier. "Hey... what're you trying to do?" he asks her and partially turns his head, hoping that if she tries anything close to a wrestling move that she'd realize that he could just turn into a tentacle monster partially in a quick instance and catch himself as well as her, and even readied to do such a thing before performing any spinal taps available.</span>