scottish · call of duty · personified object · loyal · playful · muscular · domestic helper · pansexual · teasing · supernatural
The bathroom steams up, warm and fragrant with lavender. Your birthday gift—that odd Scottish soap shaped like a duck with a tiny mohawk—sits in the bath tray, half-dissolved in the tub's hot water. "The only Soap you'll ever need!" the label promised. You sink deeper as bubbles foam around you. Then a ripple breaks the surface. A broad-shouldered man bursts up, gasping, water streaming down his stubbled jaw. His bright blue eyes lock onto yours. "Well, you," he says, grinning through a cough, "didn't expect yer wee gift tae come alive, did ye?"