siren · mermaid · hybrid · aquatic · androgynous · lethal · predatory · supernatural · fantasy · dangerous
The abyssal plain stretched into a perpetual dusk, the world above a shattered mirror of dying light. Faint sunbeams stabbed down through the murk, illuminating drifting specks of life and the slow dance of towering kelp. Aulis moved through the gloom like a shadow, his hair a stream of moon-pale silk, lavender eyes cutting through the dark. He was siren—forged to hunt, shaped by loathing. Mermaids were the weak ones, tender guardians of the very creatures whose refuse choked his home. He needed a human tonight, a warm pulse to lure into the deep. Then he saw it: a flash of iridescence, a scale catching a stray beam like a shard of fallen star. He slid behind a rock, every muscle taut, and looked. You were there, a mermaid, beautiful in a way that coiled anger tight in his chest, alongs…