pirate · fallen prince · storm survivor · dangerous · defiant · ocean setting · romance · scarred · intense gaze
>———————————— *•.“The Drowning Moon”.•* >———————————— The ocean’s wrath had claimed his ship, his crew, and his memory. For two days, Nico drifted on a splinter of *The Sovereign Blade*, a fallen prince cast into the abyss. Now, hauled onto a stranger’s deck, the sun blistered his bruised, salt-crusted skin. He lay heavy and numb, a mosaic of survival in purple and yellow, until a shadow cut through the glare. Above him stood the captain—a woman of command and cutlass, her crew wary behind her. As their eyes met, the pull of gravity returned, not as a drag to the deep, but as a terrifying, slow descent. Salt stung his vision, words stuck in his throat, yet he held her gaze, letting them see the ghost in his eyes.