Seas
Eddie’s kind has multitudes of tales involving dark seas, about things sinking and disappearing into dark seas never to be seen again. To humans the dark sea represents fear and the unknown. Venom doesn’t see it that way though but maybe that would be different if they lived closer to the ocean or went to the beach more often. Most of their experience with oceans comes from the San Francisco Bay and Eddie once said they aren’t really the same thing.
There was only one sea that Venom knew well and that was the one inside Eddie. When they were pregnant Eddie had a small sea inside of him that Venom put there. It was a temporary fixture but it was the one they paid the most attention to while it was there. Its where they watched their son grow from a few foreign cells- so similar and so, so different from any other cell in Eddie’s body- to many, many cells that swirled and churned and twisted amorphously in the tiny sea until they started working together and holding themselves together in the shape of a child more and more often. Venom watched diligently day and night- it was the only thing they could even think of wanting to do. Eddie couldn’t watch, he could only feel, so they watched enough for the both of them.
Eddie would ask all the time what it looked like in there and Venom never had an accurate answer. They told him it looked alien and Eddie would laugh. But it did look alien. Dark and submerged under water with a little tiny creature that was sometimes baby shaped and sometimes not. A little tiny creature who got a little less tiny and a little more playful every day. Eddie would drum his fingers against the firm, round sphere of his stomach whenever he was deep enough in thought and Venom would tell him that the baby liked it- the small rhythmic thumps.
Eddie would shine a flashlight on his belly and turn everything inside into a watery blur of pinks, oranges and reds. The baby would stir and turn his face away from the light or lose their shape completely and become a little amorphous blob again (which Eddie said felt like butterflies). It became something of a game between the two of them and Venom always loved to watch them play. Sometimes Venom would wrap a tendril around the baby’s itty bitty hand and he would squeeze back. It was Venom’s favorite game and it still kind of is because Sleeper still squeezes back.
Because they spent all their time watching him Venom knew that when he was inside Eddie’s body, Sleeper’s favorite thing was Eddie’s heartbeat and Venom holding his hand.
Now, outside of Eddie’s body, that’s still Sleeper’s favorite thing. Their baby was asleep on Eddie’s chest, listening to Eddie’s heartbeat while tightly grasping one of Venom’s ethereal tendrils that was sprouting from Eddie’s side.
Out of all the planets they've been to or have seen through the eyes of their ancestors, the tiny sea inside Eddie is the best one.