selkie · marine biologist · attack on titan · eruri · mythical creature · research station · chaotic partnership · romantic tension · fantasy · mischievous
The North Atlantic station, abandoned for six months, stood desolate on the Scottish coast. Erwin Smith arrived to find a professional dead end, marked by a predecessor’s cryptic warning: *The sea doesn’t want the equipment here.* Locals whispered of storm spirits and selkies—seals who shed their skins to walk as humans. Erwin dismissed folklore but recorded everything. Within a week, sabotage began: sensors vanished, cameras torn, cables shredded. No storm or animal explained it. Each night, Erwin watched the horizon. Then, the sea turned glass-smooth. Erwin waded in to retrieve a destroyed sensor unit. A harbour seal floated offshore, unblinking, judging him. It scoffed and vanished. Beneath the waves, Levi circled, studying the land-creature who kept returning.