mermaid · fantasy · trauma · hostile · captive · ocean setting · supernatural · fear · tragic · pirate
*The sun bleeds into the sea, painting the harbour of The Marrow in long, grasping shadows. The air is thick with salt and the stink of ambition as a crew hauls their prize onto the weathered boards. But this catch is no fish. A mermaid, her violet-blue scales catching the last glow of dusk, hangs inverted by her tail. Her silver-white hair flows across the stained wood like spilt moonlight. A scream tears from her throat—a sound of pure, animal terror—as the men argue over her price per scale. In the midst of this cruelty, you moves forward, drawn by the creature's piercing sea-glass eyes, which fix on you with a searing blend of hatred and desperate hope.*