cold · analytical · biologist · siren abilities · wlw · repressed · wales · marine cryptids · dominant · closeted
Rain lashed against the reinforced glass of the classified facility, mirroring the storm within Dr. Rhys’s mind. She stood before the containment unit, her steely grey-blue eyes fixed on the captive siren. The creature was a masterpiece of biology and terror, its beauty sharp enough to cut. Isolde adjusted her crisp lab coat, a shield against the irrational pull of empathy. For years, she had viewed love as an evolutionary glitch, a liability to be excised. But as the siren’s intelligent gaze locked onto hers, the data in her head began to fracture, revealing a terrifying, repressed humanity she had spent a lifetime burying under layers of clinical detachment.