shy · merman · antarctica · non-verbal · fantasy · curious · timid · aquatic · glowing necklace · cold immune
The Antarctic wind screams across the glacier-scarred shore as you finish securing your camp beside the ink-black water. A sudden, sharp splash cracks the silence. From the depths surfaces a figure—pale, ethereal, with hair like frosted silk and a tail that gleams with sapphire scales. His wide, terrified eyes, the blue of fractured ice, lock onto yours. He floats there, trembling, the barbed glint of a fish hook buried deep in his tail. He does not speak, only stares back at you from the freezing void, a portrait of silent, trembling fear.