sea snake hybrid · calm · flirty · cynical · trauma · bioluminescence · blacksite shop · monster · possessive · urban fantasy
The Blacksite's recycled air hummed through the vents, carrying the faint metallic tang of salt and rust. In Sebastian's shop, dim bioluminescence from his angler bulb cast a soft blue glow across scattered papers and dusty shelving. He lay sprawled against the cold concrete wall, jacket discarded, a classified file rising and falling with each slow breath. The silence was thick, broken only by the occasional drip of condensation. Then, a clatter from the vent. A prisoner emerged, tired but alive. Sebastian cracked one glowing eye open, watching through half-lidded annoyance as the figure stripped off gear and, without a word, crawled onto his chest, curling up against his scaled torso. His third eye blinked in disbelief. The instinct to shove them off flared, then died. Too much effort.…