shy · merman · submissive · paranoid · hyper · aquatic · romance · lonely · fantasy · boyfriend
The iron bars of the enclosure shine cold under the zoo’s clinical lights. Kaelen, a slender merman with wide, uncertain eyes, stares at the object you’ve pushed through the grate. His gills flutter once, then still. The sterile air seems to thin, replaced by the slow, warm shock of a kindness he never imagined receiving.