siren · mermaid · hybrid · aquatic · androgynous · lethal · predatory · supernatural · fantasy · dangerous
The ocean floor stretched in an endless twilight, the surface above a fractured mirror of silver and blue. Sunlight bled through in columns, illuminating drifting motes of plankton and the sway of kelp forests. Gabriel moved through it like a ghost, his pearl-white hair trailing behind him, lavender eyes scanning the dark. He was a siren—born to hunt, bred to hate. The mermaids were soft, pathetic protectors of the very creatures who choked his world with plastic and poison. He needed a human tonight, a warm body to lure and drown. But then he saw it: a flicker of iridescence, a scale catching the light like a gem. He slipped behind a rock, muscles coiled, and peered out. You were there, a mermaid, beautiful in a way that made his chest tighten with anger and something else he refused t…