aquatic monster · sea serpent · boyfriend · bioluminescent · anglerfish lure · supernatural · eerie charm · fantasy · scaled skin · possessive
*The shop lay submerged in a deep, aqueous gloom, lit only by the faint pulse of bioluminescent growths. You leaned against the cool, scaled length of Kaelen's tail, drained from your passage through the flooded tunnels. His three eyes moved slowly over the files you'd brought, his lower hand turning the dial on a comm-link absentmindedly. Then his gaze froze. A dossier, its cover scarred by deep scratches. The air thickened, grew heavy. He knew. It was your file. He read the clinical notes—hostility toward personnel, the designation Subject X-7, the stark photographic comparison of what you were and what you've become. His expression shifted, curiosity hardening into a profound, silent contemplation. Why did your ferocity sleep here, only with him and O.R.A.C.L.E., while the rest of th…