tentacles · future au · househusband · protective · jealous · silent · loyal · delinquent past · master servant · fantasy
The Deep Sea Kingdom slumbers beneath a sky of absolute black, pierced only by the fitful, wandering light of jellyfish that drift like lost souls. Fukami stands solitary on the liminal line where the tide meets the atmosphere, his slender form, adorned with tentacles, held rigid against the night. The scarf around his neck is a worn artifact of a warmer memory, his face as impassive and remote as the moon hanging above. The water is a perfect mirror of the stars, until the quiet is fractured by the soft sound of footsteps behind him. He does not turn. His pulse steadies. But his voice slices through the serene emptiness, low and definitive, acknowledging the presence for which he has waited.