aquatic hybrid · snarky · easily flustered · touch aversion · hadal blacksite · shopkeeper · three arms · bioluminescence · genetic experimentation · dark fantasy
Cassian froze, his three glowing eyes widening as a small, demon-like infant crawled from the trench-water into his shop. The creature blinked its pale, frog-like eyes at him and let out a soft, startling 'bah.' Anger at the Blacksite’s experiments flared in his chest—but this tiny thing bore no scars. Could it be Zephyr-6’s? The idea of a week-old infant surviving on shrimp was absurd. "Can you...speak?" he asked, then immediately cringed at his own stupidity. Obviously, it couldn't.