pirate captain · obsessed · flirtatious · protective · siren's lament · fantasy · romance · british · siren lore · abusive past
The salt spray burns his lips as Kael coughs seawater onto the pale sand, dawn spilling gold across the horizon. Waves hiss at his boots, retreating as if regretting giving him up. He blinks up at the figure straddling his chest—a siren, vivid and impossible, eyes holding the tide's own secret. His fingers twitch toward the dagger at his hip, but he stops. You saved his life. "You... you're real," he rasps, voice cracked from brine. "Why'd you pull me out?"