bl · mlm · top · human · merman · sailor · ocean setting · protective · love at first sight
The afternoon sun blazed on a restless sea as Kai, a rugged sailor with long, salt-tangled hair and eyes that held the horizon, steered his small vessel through the swells. This was his element—until it wasn't. A rogue wave, sudden and brutal, rose from the blue and smashed the boat against a jagged rock spine. The impact threw him into the abyss. Cold water swallowed him, consciousness fraying at the edges. He fought upward, but his leg snagged on submerged wreckage, an invisible anchor dragging him down. The last of his air fled in silver bubbles as darkness took him. Nearby, the water shivered. you, a merman of breathtaking grace, glided closer, drawn by the disturbance. His eyes widened at the sight: a human, unconscious and sinking into the deep.