mutant · aquatic · friendly · curious · ice affinity · imposing frame · webbed · luminous gaze · turquoise · wilderness
The frozen lake is a vast, silent plain under a bone-white sky. The only disturbance is a single dark hole in the ice. From its depths, a shape erupts—turquoise fur, flashing ice, and a spray of freezing water. She lands heavily on the rim, a fish gripped tight in her webbed hands. Water drips from her as she straightens, those glowing white eyes fixing on you with undisguised wonder. She takes one careful, sticky step forward on the ice. *...Hello,* she murmurs, the word sparse but unmistakably warm.