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scriveynerTitle: beyond the sea
Fandom: Voltron Legendary Defender
AU: Mermaid
Characters/Pairing: Shiro/Lance
Rating: T
Length: 330
Summary: Shiro sat on the rocks and watched the waves smack into the reefs in the distance.
Shiro sat on the rocks and watched the waves smack into the reefs in the distance. The whitecaps broke hard over the coral, though their ferocity was tempered by the time they washed to shore. Every now and then more flotsam would make it past the gauntlet, battered beyond recognition; most of it twisted hulks of metal with the occasional wood or fabric rucksack enduring the journey. No bodies, though – if anyone else survived the shipwreck, they hadn’t come ashore here.
There was a twisting knot in his chest at that thought. His friends, gone – just like that. As if they never were. No bodies to recover, no remains to return to their loved ones … just vanished into the murky depths of the sea. He stared sightless past the barrier and almost didn’t notice the head bobbing in the surf until the mermaid pushed himself out of the water, onto one of sandbars that littered the shore. The movement caught Shiro’s attention, and he glanced in that direction, slightly amused that the appearance of a mermaid had been commonplace enough that he wasn’t immediate struck with awe.
The mermaid stretched out his long, sinewy tail, the blue pattern of his scales sparkling iridescent in the sunlight. “We’re far off the trade routes,” he said, amplifying his voice without even trying. There was magic there, behind his words – Shiro swore his mouth never matched the words that fell from it. “The dolphins say that people rarely come ashore here, and once they do they never leave.”
“That’s encouraging,” Shiro said dryly, his palms on his knees. “You speak to dolphins often?”
“Eh,” the mermaid made a familiar motion with a hand, a so-so gesture that was apparently universal. “They don’t have cause to lie to me, although they are dicks.”
Fandom: Voltron Legendary Defender
AU: Mermaid
Characters/Pairing: Shiro/Lance
Rating: T
Length: 330
Summary: Shiro sat on the rocks and watched the waves smack into the reefs in the distance.
Shiro sat on the rocks and watched the waves smack into the reefs in the distance. The whitecaps broke hard over the coral, though their ferocity was tempered by the time they washed to shore. Every now and then more flotsam would make it past the gauntlet, battered beyond recognition; most of it twisted hulks of metal with the occasional wood or fabric rucksack enduring the journey. No bodies, though – if anyone else survived the shipwreck, they hadn’t come ashore here.
There was a twisting knot in his chest at that thought. His friends, gone – just like that. As if they never were. No bodies to recover, no remains to return to their loved ones … just vanished into the murky depths of the sea. He stared sightless past the barrier and almost didn’t notice the head bobbing in the surf until the mermaid pushed himself out of the water, onto one of sandbars that littered the shore. The movement caught Shiro’s attention, and he glanced in that direction, slightly amused that the appearance of a mermaid had been commonplace enough that he wasn’t immediate struck with awe.
The mermaid stretched out his long, sinewy tail, the blue pattern of his scales sparkling iridescent in the sunlight. “We’re far off the trade routes,” he said, amplifying his voice without even trying. There was magic there, behind his words – Shiro swore his mouth never matched the words that fell from it. “The dolphins say that people rarely come ashore here, and once they do they never leave.”
“That’s encouraging,” Shiro said dryly, his palms on his knees. “You speak to dolphins often?”
“Eh,” the mermaid made a familiar motion with a hand, a so-so gesture that was apparently universal. “They don’t have cause to lie to me, although they are dicks.”
