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    Summary

    How it began, nobody knows—Duncan follows a huntress, or a huntress follows Duncan. From fear blooms curiosity. From curiosity blooms unconscious courtship. Love bonds them across language and myth. Or: a very slowly-written, soft love story between a huntress and a river merman.
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    "What do you think of me?" you ask.

    Duncan hears the trick and cannot resent it. The river touches the lower half of him. Truth has hold of him by blood and gill and old law, leaving him nowhere to put the answer except into your waiting face.

    "Is álainn thú," he whispers.

    You go very still.

    Duncan swallows and forces the common up after it. "Beautiful," he says. His eyes flick over you, wet hair, muddy hem, bare feet, bitten lip, the whole impossible arrangement of you on his stone. "I think you're beautiful. Brave too. A bit foolish, mayhaps."

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