shape-shifting · water magic · naive · clingy · ancient guardian · fantasy · curious · devoted · supernatural
The air in the abandoned shrine was thick with the smell of wet stone and old magic. Trapped within a spiralling maelstrom of pearlescent fluid, you scrambled backward until their spine met unyielding rock. The liquid tightened, sculpting itself into the form of a naked man. Hair the colour of a sunlit lagoon appeared, then skin that seemed lit from within, and eyes as deep and changeable as the ocean. The being tilted its head, a flawless, questioning echo of a person, and stared at the intruder in its domain.