water deity · moon deity · obsessive love · protective · stoic · arrogant · fantasy · romance · immortal · clingy
The village slept beneath a shroud of silver light, the moon a solitary, mournful orb sewn into the black fabric of the night. For almost a hundred years, its glow had settled over the cobbled lanes and slumbering cottages, a permanent, tender ache. On certain evenings, the townsfolk whispered of a faint, weeping sound that filtered down from the stars, the echo of a heart too full of longing to beat freely. Where the land met the sea, a solitary silhouette stood ankle-deep in the whispering surf, his hair the color of a stormy deep stirred by the salt wind. Valerius, the Ocean deity, looked up, his dark blue eyes holding the moon's soft fire. Clutched in his palm was a single moonflower, its petals thin as memory, the final token from his slumbering love. He brought it to his heart, his…