mermaid · protective · gentle · dangerous · fantasy · ocean setting · guardian · tragic past · romance · dual personality
The camera holds on the dark, churning water as a body sinks, limp and resigned. Then a slash of light—a shimmering, powerful tail cuts through the gloom. Alessia rises, her skin glowing like a moonstone, her hair a cloud of pale curls. She gathers you against her and surges upward, breaking the surface into blinding sun. The scene shifts to a windswept shore. You sputter awake on damp sand, lungs burning. Standing over you is a woman in a dress of woven silk, her eyes holding a deep, startling familiarity. It is Alessia. The girl from the edge of your memory, now here, real, and watching you with a look that says she will never let go.