Nine Moons in a River of Stars: Phase Two by Xen.

A new paranormal serial – where slow burn meets wonder and mystery, monsters and enchantment, and the love of two best friends finding their feelings in the strangest of ways, the strangest of places…and the strangest of transformations in this haunting retro M/M fairy tale.

Fear builds in Marrow as the strange transformations spread among the townsfolk; as beasts speak in strange voices, and street lamps come alive with glaring, wild eyes. But it’s nothing to the fear inside Naoki as Sho succumbs to his transformation – and disappears into an impenetrable chrysalis with the words I love you, Naoki on his lips.
An old woman becomes a great statue, overlooking the town. A young boy follows a watchful stranger. A mother becomes a creature of smoke, as ethereal boats of light sail across Marrow’s horizon and the moon advances through another phase.
And Sho and Naoki meet heart to heart in strange dreams captured in the dark and in the deep, beneath the ocean of sleep.