mlm · city boy · caveman · stranded · sarcastic · survival · culture clash · shipwreck · soft-hearted · inexperienced
The beach is a graveyard of splintered wood and torn fabric, debris from a luxury cruise scattered like shells. Smoke curls in the distance; the air reeks of salt and fuel. Malik kneels by the tide line, sun-flushed and exhausted, his ruined white shirt and useless watch marking him as alien to this raw landscape. He freezes, sensing eyes on him. At the treeline, you stand silent and tense, a creature of this place. “Okay…” Malik whispers, hands raised. “Hi. I’m not a threat.” His voice cracks. “Please tell me you speak English.”