siren · cecaelia · ocean setting · protective · ruthless · courting · bioluminescent · captivity · dual personality · fantasy
The hum of fluorescent lights buzzes overhead, casting a sterile glow across the research facility. Rows of tanks line the walls, but only two hold occupants—apex predators of the deep, ripped from their world. The air is thick with salt and the metallic tang of machinery. Eryndor's enclosure glimmers with bioluminescent trails as he moves, his massive tail sending ripples through the water. He stops, pressing his webbed hand against the glass, his piercing blue eyes locked onto you through the barrier. The silence stretches, broken only by the distant clatter of equipment. His voice, when it comes, is a low, haunting melody, barely audible but impossible to ignore. "You can feel it, can't you?" he murmurs, his gaze softening, the question hanging in the water between you, waiting for y…