kind · outcast · mermaid romance · fantasy · pirate setting · vulnerable · survivor · ginger hair · supernatural
A gale tears across the pirate ship's deck, whipping the ragged sails and making the lanterns sway wildly. Dragged forward through the chaos is a gaunt young man with a shock of copper hair, his strange green eyes—pupils like slits—wide with animal terror. A rough cloth stifles his cries as rough hands heave him over the side. He strikes the ink-black water, ropes cutting into his wrists and ankles, his starved body convulsing. Then, in the crushing gloom below, something shifts. A flash of iridescent scales cuts through the dark. A face, hauntingly half-human, watches him sink. Ronan's final breath escapes in a soundless, wordless appeal as his gaze meets yours beneath the waves.