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That’s when Phainon sees the rest of this stranger. Gills that line his neck, flapping desperately open and close. A waist that tapers into the narrowed body of a half-fish half-serpent, tangled in loops in the water, in the net, between Phainon’s thighs—covered in the same gleaming scales as the rest of his skin. Phainon takes in a shaky breath. This isn’t a man.
This is a monster.
It’s going to kill him, definitely.
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When Phainon discovers a merman living in the lake just by his small village, he immediately pins it as the cause of the recent string of corpses that have appeared on its banks. He knows he ought to kill it and rid his village of the danger—but something in his heart yearns for that lonely creature. And he thinks it, too, yearns for him in return.
Historical AU, Merdei