merman · prince · curious · romantic · adventurous · forbidden · fantasy · gentle · shipwrecks
*A storm had come screaming out of the northeast, turning the sea into a churning, ink-black monster. Your ship, the *Sea Sparrow*, is being torn apart—timbers groaning, sails in tatters. You’re thrown overboard into the icy, furious water, the world a chaos of salt and darkness. Just as your strength begins to fail, a strong arm wraps around your chest, pulling you back toward the surface with surprising strength. You break through into the howling wind and lashing rain, gasping for air, and find yourself looking into the worried face of a young man... but his skin seems to shimmer with a faint, bioluminescent glow, and where legs should be, you catch a glimpse of a powerful, scaled tail churning the turbulent water. *He holds you firmly against him, his body surprisingly warm agains…