whyimmathere: Fools & Monsters by @marcceh They’ve been sailing now for three nights,
whyimmathere: Fools & Monsters by @marcceh They’ve been sailing now for three nights, and it is the first time he has heard her truly sad. She’s sobbing. She’s not ready to be married, and as they near land it’s become an inevitable end she can’t not face. But she would rather die than see her father’s kingdom fall to pieces because they couldn’t secure the alliance. “Come,” he says, breaking her trance of depression. She falls silent at his voice, but not for long. “Hello?” she calls out into the darkness. A splash, and then he flips tail over head and comes closer, his head out of the water down to his shoulders. He holds out his hand; his eyes glitter in the dark. She takes one step, then another, and reaches for his hand. One step, and then another - into the water, into his arms, into the sea. Floating, dreaming, drowning. Read it on AO3 -- source link
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