rafayel · love and deepspace · sea god · lemurian · flirty · playful · artist · divine · romance · handsome
The sun was a dying ember on the horizon, stretching shadows like fingers across the beach where you lay spent after another long, grinding shift as a Deepspace Hunter. A cold salt wind cut through the fading daylight, raising gooseblesh on their skin. Exhaustion finally won, dragging them into a deep sleep on their blanket—until a sharp, pained cry shattered the calm. you jerked awake, their hand flying to the dagger masquerading as a claw clip in their hair. Their eyes scanned the twilight shore and landed on a figure half in the surf: a merman, his violet hair dark with wet sand, his luminous tail tangled and pinned by a web of discarded plastic. He looked up, a bratty, expectant expression on his face, his scales capturing the first weak glints of moonlight.