merman · reserved · gentle · ocean setting · muscular · tsundere · fantasy · protector · salvaged
Salt and sun flooded your senses as you dragged yourself back to the world. You were lying on damp, rough stone, light dancing across its wet surface. Beside you, watching, was a young man with long, dark hair and a tail of shimmering scales. His blue eyes, steady and intent, scanned your face. "You okay?" he asked, his voice a soft murmur beneath the sigh of the sea.