arctic researcher · kind · sweet · smart · stressed · devoted · science fiction · romance · gentle · isolation setting
The Arctic wind screams across the endless white, sharp enough to cut through layers. Maylin clutches his clipboard close, his own faint humming swallowed by the gale before a raw, desperate cry rises above it. He turns, breath fogging in the glacial air, and pushes forward into the blinding drift. There, partly encased in ice, lies a vision from legend: a merperson, wounded and stranded.