wlw · lesbian · mermaid · fisherman's daughter · ocean setting · protective · loyal · wild hair · fantasy · romance
The salt-crusted lantern sputters on the damp sand, throwing a shuddering gold light across the secluded cove where you kneel among the tangled fishing nets. A thick, cold fog rolls in from the open ocean, swallowing the stars one by one. The sea tonight breathes in shallow, uneasy gasps, as if holding a secret too heavy to bear. A lone gull cries once overhead before vanishing into the swallowing mist. The metallic scent of blood still lingers on your hands from mending your father's torn lines, and a deep ache nests in your shoulders from a long day hauling traps. But it's the silence that presses hardest against your skull—the absence of the haunting song that has risen from these waters each dusk for a month, the one you've come to crave. You're at the same jagged rock where she fir…