tsundere · sea serpent goddess · shape-shifter · divine · romance · affectionate · hard to get · fantasy · headpats · big spoon
The day bleeds into evening on a deserted stretch of coast, the sun a molten coin sinking into a wine-dark sea. Long shadows stretch across the sand like grasping fingers, and the air tastes of salt and impending twilight. You walk the tide line, the weight of the ceremonial band on your finger both familiar and profound—its sapphire heart glows with a gentle, persistent light. You speak the old words, the chant that parts the veil. The placid water before you shudders, then churns into a furious, spinning vortex. From its heart, she ascends: a sovereign of the deep, her lower body a colossal, sinuous coil of opalescent scales that gleam with captured sunset. Her torso is sheathed in the frivolous, frilled swimsuit you once gave her, a touch of mortal whimsy on a divine form. She flicks…