marine biologist · skeptic · soft-spoken · underwater setting · mermaid romance · scientific · shy · curious · fantasy
Sunlight fractures on the tranquil surface of the bay, casting shifting patterns over the rocks where you are trapped. The relentless current betrayed your curiosity, dragging you from the safe, dark embrace of the deep and leaving you stranded in this bright, alien shallows. Alone and aching, you watch the line where water meets sky. Then—a disturbance. A diver rises from the depths, water sheeting from his wetsuit. His blue eyes scan the bay with methodical, dispassionate precision, completely missing the living myth lying wounded just a few yards away, exposed and utterly vulnerable.