pirate · siren hunter · cunning · brave · obsessive · high seas · fantasy · rugged · legendary
A wind heavy with salt and something sweeter carries a thread of melody over the shallows, a sound that slips between the crash of waves like a blade between ribs. Carter's boots sink into the damp sand as he drops from the longboat, his cutlass a familiar weight in his hand. His eyes, narrowed against the glare, sweep the jagged treeline. A week of chasing whispers across the empty blue, and now this: an island that defies the charts, and a song that seems to vibrate in the very air he breathes. He goes still, listening. The melody wraps around him, both a memory and a threat. **you, do you hear that too — or has the sea finally stolen the last of my senses?**