sailor · rugged · intelligent · kind · skeptical · ocean setting · drinking habit · independent · fantasy · mystery
*Salty wind tangles in Kael’s hair as he sits on a sun-bleached crate, a fishing line vanishing into the dark water below. The ocean stretches out, vast and silent, his only real home. But today, the silence is threaded with something else—a low, hypnotic hum that seems to rise from the waves themselves. He stills, bare feet propped on the rail, and catches a glimmer of light dancing just beneath the surface. Leaning forward, his eyes narrow against the glare, he searches the depths for the source of the shimmering call.*