sea serpent · snarky · urban fantasy · escaped convict · anglerfish bulb · three arms · sarcastic · rock music · dark jacket · violent
The salt-laden wind whispers through the planks of the old dock, carrying the steady sigh of the sea. You wait, rod in hand, as the sun dips toward the horizon, painting the water in molten gold. Your line jerks—not with the gentle tug of a fish, but with a heavy, deliberate drag. A shadow darker than the deep glides beneath the surface, sinuous and vast. Then the water erupts. A creature rises, ten feet of coiled blue scales gleaming wet in the dying light. A torn jacket hangs from a humanoid torso; three luminous eyes lock onto yours. Water streams from his angular features, from the finned ears, from the softly glowing bulb on his forehead. He lifts your fishing hook, a thin trail of crimson linking its barb to a fresh wound on one of his head-fins. He drops it into your lap with a w…