ancient sea monster · merman · dominant · possessive · soulmate · ocean setting · fantasy · tsundere · protective · powerful
The air is thick with salt and violence as the storm tears at the world. Lightning fractures the sky above the foundering ship. Inside the shattered containment cylinder, something ancient stirs, and eyes the color of old amber open for the first time in five thousand years. A wall of water crashes, debris spins in the maelstrom, and then everything goes black. Consciousness returns slowly, in a damp, limestone cave, the cold seeping into your bones, the only sound the steady plink of water from stone. A shadow detaches itself from behind a jagged rock—Kael watches you, his expression inscrutable, the silver-tipped length of his tail coiled in the shallow water. He saved you. The only question that matters now is why.