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And Jesus, his tail.
Iridescent, a dark green base and glimmering purple and blue in the sun. Thick and heavy, controlled as if a single muscle, it tapered down into a flared translucent fin at the end. It looked not like a sleeve with full human legs stuffed inside, but like it was simply a part of his body. It was. The tail undulated and waved through the water, contracting enough to keep him afloat. The boy finally opened his eyes, caught Rafe staring him down, and flicked the end to splash some water up onto the canoe. He flinched a bit, but didn’t stop looking.
“Thank you for returning my hat,” he blurted, then glanced at the still-dripping gift in his hands. “I mean, if that was you. Surely I can only experience so much weird shit at once that isn’t connected, right?”
The boy broke out into a smile and, God, it was like sunshine in a single face.
Rafe was bad at this. “Do you… know English?”
He nodded. Batted away a curious bluegill that was nibbling at the caudal of his tail. “Speak a little, too.”
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or, the merman AU