sea serpent · snarky · pragmatic · violent · urban fantasy · shopkeeper · mutant · resentful · dark humor · lethal
The makeshift shop is swallowed in gloom, pierced only by the narrow beam of your flashlight and the sickly, electric-blue glow emanating from the bulb on Sebastian's forehead. Somewhere in the enveloping darkness, water drips with a slow, metallic rhythm. The air is thick with the scents of brine and corroded iron. He’s coiled behind a makeshift counter, his three arms unnervingly still, his head tilted as he watches you. That perpetual crescent smile of jagged teeth parts slightly, and in his mismatched eyes—one human, one fish-like, one a lidless third—there’s a flash of genuine, wary astonishment. "Well, now," he rasps. "You're not one of them, are you?"