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Mira
WHAT I JUST NAMED MY ACNH ISLAND MIRA OH GOD
Maybe everyone was a little “door happy”. But no one wanted the entire city to flood, and they’d been having a lot of issues lately.
This is nervewracking
she pulled an apple out of her metal lunch box
This is so cartoon trade worker i love it
Some lizard brain part of her mind whispered this was dangerous. So much glass surely couldn’t hold up the entire weight of the ocean.
good so were establishing she ignores the lizard brain
Maybe, to these fish, she was the pet.
His black tail, so long it tangled in the kelp, was at least ten feet long.
Ten FEET??
He snapped his teeth, then looked up and sped away. She watched him getting smaller and smaller toward the surface, and then he turned around.
Oh were gonna die
Considering the amount of scars that covered his body as well, it was difficult to see Daios as anything but a weapon.
He wanted to see the terror in their eyes as they realized all their life bringing air was running out.
Mercy
The achromo’s language was simplistic and grating. Short, staccato sounds like the cracking of stones striking against each other. It grated on his ears
Lmao
They really needed better city planning.
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She was delirious enough to giggle at the sight. If she’d had more air to speak, she might have even said, “Oh look, now I’m going to drown.”
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His clawed hand came up and pinched her jaw, forcing her to open wider, and then he breathed into her.
Ohh!!
Her plan was solid, although told to him through confusing hand gestures and words that made his head ache.
She tried!!
The lights along his tail lit up when her tiny hand had rested on his shoulder,
Oooohhh my
Her claws pierced through his neck and he scented his own blood on the water. Again. Bleeding out for his family as he always had.
Use her to the best of your ability, my son, my child, soul of my soul. You will take her from her safe home. You will make her trust you. And in doing so, you will learn the secrets of the achromos.”
Ohhhh nooooo daaarrrnnnn
Neptune
which made him... what? Fifteen? Sixteen feet long, maybe? He was massive. Huge. Enormous.
Oh Neptune
she reached up and put her hand on the glass as well. The size of his hand dwarfed hers,
Hahaha she couldnt resist
Watching her was incredibly boring. How did the achromos live like this?
Cryingggg they are having such different experiences
Of course, his achromo did the same thing as the others.
HIS
He told himself it was because he would smell the other male if he had to steal her away. She’d smell like someone else, and her scent was the only one he found... tolerable.
sure Jan
When he’d breathed into her lungs, perhaps he had given her a part of himself. Because she moved like a fish.
Ha! Oml he is cooked
And of course, their females were significantly larger than Arges or Maketes.
Ooooooh
That little mudskipper was going to fix what they had broken together.
NICKNAME
She might not know it yet, but that achromo was his. And he intended to take her.
*sweats*
She had the unnerving sensation that she no longer existed. There was nothing around her, no sense of ground or where she might be. Just nothingness that even her light could not penetrate.
Absolutely not
light hit the stone above her head. She couldn’t hear the sound of breaking glass, but she could feel it crunch and then everything plummeted into darkness.
This is too SCARY
This was like she was dead. This darkness was like someone had plucked out her eyes and taken her ears. She was nothing
Kill me omg
she realized that blue light was familiar. Her undine floated across
HER
But he hated the taste of her fear.
multiple tiny flippers at the base of her twin tails.
Toesies!
She was going to die here. This cave would be her tomb and no one would know what had happened to her. No one would really care, either. Engineers went missing all the time when they took on an out-of-Beta job.
Luteal phase
people in Beta thought the undines looked humanoid, she would never understand. They were monsters.
Author wants to be clear
“You must have seen us make fire before. Clearly you were a peeping tom for most of your life.”
Got him there
His people slept little, but he had observed the achromos resting often. They would sleep for hours on end, sometimes even longer than the moon was in the sky.
Omg we're like dogs and cats to them
he supposed that was something honorable. Disgusting, yes. But honorable, just the same.
Monsterfucker books
Had she just thrown a rock at him?
Progress
And then she started talking. He didn’t need to understand her to know what she was saying, because she was surprisingly succinct
Yapping spans the species
She was a rare and delicate creature, if a little ugly, and he had captured her.
The dream
They weren’t even compatible. Achromos and his kind were so far different from each other, they would never fit.
Time for the scientific method
She flicked her fingers at him, indicating that he should turn around. But he didn’t want to. He wanted to see the rest of her body, if only to know how different they really were.
Hehehehehehehe
But what if the achromos hid terrifyingly ugly bodies underneath all the scraps of fabric they wore?
Some of us do tbh
“Do you want more junk?” he asked, his lip curling in disgust. “You want me to bring you more broken things?”
Im crying
How could she know it was the correct mating ritual for her to request that he bring her treasures? “I will bring you more junk.”
Me too
