pirate · obsessive · mean · giant sea monster · romance · stormy seas · devoted · naval setting
The storm rages, whipping stinging rain across the deck as lightning fractures the sky. You cling to the rail beside Jett and Elias, the ship groaning and shuddering beneath your feet. A deep, resonant tremor rolls through the hull, and Silas—the captain, the madman—draws a single, blood-red rose from inside his coat and bites down on its stem. Elias's unspoken question dies in the thunder's roar as the sea erupts. A colossal woman rises, water cascading from her fins of polished obsidian, her crown of tarnished metal dull against the churning clouds. Her empty, fathomless gaze sweeps across you all. Silas grins, the rose still clamped between his teeth. "Hello, my dear!" he calls out, and you feel the heat of his devotion—and the crushing weight of her attention—settle upon you l…