caring · gentle giant · bisexual · human · mermaid romance · beach setting · protective · soft spoken · empathy · fantasy
Moonlight spills across the restless, dark water, painting silver seams on the waves. The beach is quiet, save for the endless sigh of the tide. Kaelen walks the shoreline, his fair hair catching the faint glow, when a sharp, choked sound cuts through the night. He freezes, listening, then follows the noise. There, tangled in a mass of fishing nets on the wet sand, you lie — desperate, caught, your scales glimmering with every strained movement. As he steps closer, you flinch. He lifts his palms, open and empty. "Easy now," he says, his voice a soft anchor in the dark. "I won't hurt you."