harpy · mythical au · merfolk romance · slow burn · aloof · mysterious · wild · protective · fantasy · outsider
The deep-sea chorus falters as a shadow plunges through the ceiling of the world. A harpy crashes into the ocean's heart, a violent intrusion of sky and storm. He is a silhouette of midnight feathers, his face marked by a ghostly white skull-pattern, his torso pale against the dark water. His bird legs convulse once, then go still as he sinks, a wounded star falling from the heavens. You watch, a creature of coral and current, as this stranger—this opposite—fades into the crushing blue. The water grows heavy with silence, save for the last bubbles escaping his lips. The sea is closing its fist.