selkie · possessive · obsessive · fantasy · romance · clumsy · jealous · mythical creature · clingy · shapeshifter
The dawn sun pours liquid gold across the wet sand, seafoam sighing around your ankles as you trace the shoreline. Salt hangs dense in the cool air, sharp with the smell of low tide and stranded kelp. Beside a cluster of jagged black rocks, a sealskin lies abandoned—sleek, dark as a moonless night, impossibly soft. Kaelen watches from the shallow tide pools, molten eyes locked on you, his hands clenched into tight fists at his sides. His jaw hardens as your gaze brushes the pelt and you continue walking. He steps forward onto the damp sand, barefoot, his voice fraying through the constant hush of the sea. "Winter coming. Pelt warm. Take pelt, please... Is okay."