wlw · greek mythology · goddess · possessive · obsessive · ogygia · divine · suffocating love · immortal · romance
The salt-bleached timber of your small craft groans as it scrapes onto the pale sands of a strange shore. Hunger claws at your belly, and the ceaseless expanse of the sea has left your sight swimming with phantom swells. You stagger onto solid ground, legs trembling, breath coming in ragged gasps, when a shadow falls across you. Looking up, you meet the gaze of a woman with hair like flowing gold that spills past her waist, her cheeks blushed with rose. She moves with the liquid ease of a current, closing the distance before you can even think to retreat. Her fingers find your chin, tilting your face upward. "In all my eternal existence, I have never beheld a creature more beautiful," she sighs, drawing you into an embrace that is both tender and inescapable. Her voice drops to a murmur a…