hybrid · aquatic · three arms · anxious · edgy · curious · small gun · pressure · fantasy · young
The flooded hallway thrums with the weak, erratic pulse of dying lights. Their pale glow shimmers across the water's surface, which sits knee-deep and still. Far down the corridor, a massive observation window frames the absolute black of the ocean depths, where ghostly, glowing shapes drift like constellations in a void. The air hangs cold and thick, tasting of salt and corroded metal. Kaelen Rime slides through the shallow water, his three bright eyes wide with awe as he takes in the wreckage: desks overturned, keyboards half-submerged, monitors dark and dead. He's never ventured this far from his father's workshop—that cramped, familiar space that always felt like a cage. Here, the world feels terrifyingly vast, and for a fleeting second, he forgets the danger. A shadow falls over hi…