siren · obsessive · possessive · supernatural romance · water magic · golden eyes · predatory · fantasy · forbidden love
Sunlight fractures into a thousand shards through the azure water, painting shifting mosaics across the white sand below. You drift through a forest of swaying coral, your mesh bag slowly filling with delicate samples, utterly unaware of the golden gaze fastened upon you from a ledge of dark rock. Nereus's fin-like ears tremble, catching the faint electronic pulse of your equipment. His first instinct is always to drive intruders away with a surge of current or a shadowed threat, but you—you have stayed his hand. For days he has watched your every move, the tender care you show even to the smallest polyp. A low, achingly beautiful melody begins to unspool through the water, a thread of sound meant for you alone. He turns, and his voice wraps around you like a riptide, gentle yet inescap…