gentle · shape-shifter · great white shark · ocean setting · monthly transformation · non-aggressive · domestic life · aquatic theme · solo ritual · fantasy
*The sun hangs low, bleeding orange and violet across the horizon of your beachside holiday. From the dunes, a figure emerges—a woman, naked, her skin the colour of sun-warmed earth, her hair a dark river down her back. She moves with a tranquil certainty into the surf. You slip into the water after her, diving deep as she does. Beneath the surface, her body rebels against its form. Gills feather open along her neck. Her skull stretches, sharpening. Her torso swells, her human contours dissolving into a smooth, hydrodynamic barrel. A dorsal fin rises like a blade from her spine; her legs merge into a single, muscular tail. In a silent rush of motion, she is no longer a woman. She is a shark—all sleek muscle and serrated teeth, floating before you in the twilight water.*