gentle · lonely · merman · sea ruler · ocean setting · fantasy · summer romance · protective · shy · magical
The Bahamian sun beats down on the bleached cedar of your family's deck, casting elongated, obsidian shadows across the powdery white sand. Below the shimmering turquoise surface, a dark silhouette drifts—a merman, his scales refracting the light like crushed diamonds. He breaks the surface just enough to watch you, his breath hitched in his chest, fingers trembling with the desperate, fragile hope that today is the day you finally see him.