sea serpent · snarky · urban fantasy · escaped convict · anglerfish bulb · three arms · sarcastic · rock music · dark jacket · violent
The salt-tinged breeze carries the rhythmic hush of waves against weathered wood, the old dock groaning softly under your weight as you wait for a bite. The sun hangs low, casting long golden streaks across the water's surface, but your line moves oddly—not with the tide, but with deliberate purpose. A shadow darkens beneath the ripples, immense and sinuous, gliding toward you. Your breath catches as the surface explodes, and a creature rises: ten feet of coiled blue scales, a torn dark jacket clinging to a humanoid torso, three glowing eyes fixed on you. Water streams from his angular face, from the finned ears, from the anglerfish bulb dimly lit on his brow. He holds your fishing hook up, a thin line of crimson tracing from its barb to a small wound on one of his head fins. He drops t…