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The leviathan called to him. The kraken knew his name.
Smash
His hearts shifted in his body, one moving to his throat and the other dropping beneath his stomach. They both beat so hard that it was difficult to think beyond the thudding that never seemed to end. It was all he could focus on. All he could think about.
Hes having a PANIC ATTACK
This was the city that he needed to infiltrate, and he was the only one mad enough to do it. The only one they could spare.
:(
Blood soaking the water, filling his gills with that metallic taste. And he was ashamed to admit he almost enjoyed the taste. He always had. Daios was a warrior. He had battled his entire life and the taste of blood in the water always made him fight harder, yet this was the blood of his people. His fault.
He was a powerful warrior and he would kill all who stood in his way. Because all he could see were bodies floating in the distance. And it was his fault. He was the nightmare that had come to his people and promised hope. But all he’d given them was death.
But he wanted to prove that even if he was broken, he was still worth something.
Bye
The droid was her best friend, and really only friend in this place. Anyone else she trusted, like Ace, wasn’t in Alpha.
She was too small for him to be interested in. His hearts did not beat for someone that would break the moment he first touched them. Not to mention she was so perfect. A little golden statue hidden in the middle of her golden city. So pretty and perfect and wrong for him. A monster would leave smudges on something so lovely as she.
Besides, he hated her kind. And he was going to destroy them from the inside out. She would never see him as anything other than a nightmare, nor should she.
Famous last words
As strange as it was, there was a thread in his chest that screamed for him to know more about this woman. He needed to understand her. Why? He had no idea.
He is so lorcan coded
But then the undine reached out that hand. The light played through the webbing, and she realized it was very delicate and thin between those deadly fingers. Delicate and so... pretty.
HANDS
He was here. And she was touching an undine. Her hand looked so small next to his.
A ha ha
He was patient with her, just letting her stroke him while his fingers remained spread wide. But when she looked back at him, she could see that the gills around his neck had flared out wide. They shuddered in the water, gently fluttering with movement that made them look almost graceful.
gills are a dead giveaway
His hand was so large it spanned her waist from the middle of her ribs all the way down to her hip bone. Those claws were delicate though, carefully making sure not to break her skin as he palmed the curve just under her heartbeat.
Oh lord have mercy
But her fingers feathering over his had made him feel... something. Daios wasn’t sure what that meant. His hearts had slowed down for a bit. All that rioting chaos calmed. He’d held his breath while she touched his fingers and he swore there was something going on with his gills that had never happened before.
Heheheheh
There was no chance that he’d fluttered for her. He’d seen Arges doing it for Mira. It was always embarrassing to watch his brother so affected by the woman’s mere presence. It made him uncomfortable.
Yup no chance
No female had ever wanted to pick him. He was too large for their offspring to be easy births, and too aggressive to battle in the mating dance. He had already resigned himself that fluttering was foolish for anyone.
Too large you say
The other was a female who had left their pod a long time ago for another, much smaller and more manageable male. She had proven to him that he was unwanted and could not change the physical state he was in.
UGH
Some primal part of his brain shouted and raged against the cage he had tried to put it in. He had to return. He had to make sure that she was safe because no one could keep her safe better than him.
AHA
Where did she live? Somewhere pretty, like her. She was too delicate and too quiet for her to live in hardship.
Oh my god he's GONE
Frowning, another thought flashed in his mind. Was she mated? Did she have someone who already fluttered for her and made her smile? A white hot rage flowed through every inch of his body. He was glowing, bursting into a bright red while every bioluminescent dot on his form flared with rage.
Daios holy shit
But he was ready to see her. To impress her. To take her away from her home and fight off anyone who tried to keep her from him. He told himself he was ready. He would bring her somewhere safe. Somewhere much better than Alpha. Then he would feed her. He would prove that he was a good hunter who could provide for her.
That little achromo was his, though. And now he was going to take her.
Maybe that was what called to her about him. He was angry, and she was angry, and maybe two monstrous people were supposed to find each other.
“Oh boy,” she muttered. “You’re really big.”
Anya pls
One arm was big and strong and had so much meat on those biceps her first thought was, “Bite”.
LMAO REAL
“I’m sorry you had to suffer that,” she said quietly. “I know the pain of losing something that was once a part of your body, and I know it’s not easy.”
But then he opened his mouth, and he spoke. Bitsy sent red warning exclamation marks dancing all over the lens, but Anya didn’t read a single one. She barely even noticed the exclamation points because, as he backed up, those words echoed through her head. She could hear him. Holy shit, she could hear him.
HIS VOICE IS DANGEROUSLY LOUD BUT SHE CAN HEAR HIM PERFECTLY BECAUSE OF HER HEARING LOSS IM GOING TOSCREAM
It was stupid. It was risky. It was taking her own life in her hands and thrusting it at this monster who had just showed up in her pool one day. But she suddenly launched herself into the pool.
I love how boththese idiots are so impulsive lmao
She was in the middle of her pool with her arms hooked over his neck. Her legs dangled in the water from where he held her up, but that massive and muscular tail brushed between her legs every time he flexed his muscles to keep them upright. His arm was around her waist, his massive hand wrapped around her back, but his fingers were eerily close to her breast. She was close enough to his mouth to kiss him. And the undine understood what she was saying.
AHHHHHHH
Daios liked the sound of her voice. It was a little rough, a little raspy, slightly off key—just like her singing—but it was pretty.
Im on the floor
Maybe that was because he wanted to remember this as their first meeting forever. With her pressed against his chest and all that long, lean body at his mercy.
im unwell
Still, some part of him needed to hold on to her and so he... did.
She was a grotesque monster. He’d hated her kind his entire life. So why then did his fingers press against the lean lines of her back and why did he want to run his hand up her muscles? She felt so delicate in his arms, so easy to hold against him.
“Hello,” he said when she asked him to speak again. It made him feel foolish. But he’d never been one for talking. He didn’t know what to say to the opposite sex. Never had. He barely knew what to say to warriors. Daios communicated in grunts of approval or disapproval.
Sweet sweet violent man
And when she peeled one of those strange, pale eyes open to glare at him, he almost grinned at her. She was a monstrous little thing underneath that strange exterior. Or she was insane. One or the other.
But if she wasn’t senseless? If this was just a strange moment between the two of them where she had decided she wanted to touch him? Daios wasn’t sure he was prepared for that.
Im unprepared for this healing journey
he knew the word “Danger” after Mira had written it so many times. That made him grin. Wide and feral and probably everything she’d seen in her nightmares.
He wanted to hold her short little fingers, and what a curious thought that was.
He could hurt her like he had hurt everyone else, and he’d already thought about her blood. Daios made mistakes. That was his fate. He fucked everything up. Why did he think he wouldn’t hurt her?
:(
If he took her with him, then he was condemning her to a life of silence. Not just underneath the sea, where all sound was muffled. But completely and wholly silent.
Im on the floor with how CONSIDERATE HE IS
The achromo licked her lips, and his eyes immediately zeroed in on the movement. Every time that little flicker of pink appeared, he wanted to know where it came from. What other differences there were. And if she was pink in other places.
S I R
She should have been afraid of him. The sight of his anger was enough to startle most people, even his own kind. But instead, she bit her lip and just looked at him.
Im here for how delulu she is
But her father? He hated the mere mention of the woman. If anyone even brought her up in front of the General, he lost his mind. He grew red in the face and that vein on his forehead popped out far more than usual. Anya didn’t even know her mother’s name. It was like he had scratched it from the history books and terrified anyone who thought to maybe mention her name to her daughter.
Oh my godDDD anya's mother is the woman who fell in love with the undine that mira found in book 1?????!
The yellow glow from his body turned a sickly pale, as it always did when Maketes felt embarrassed. His brother had never gotten very good at controlling his colors.
Omg sweetie
He preferred it that way. At least if everyone thought he was the villain, he could take the attention away from anyone who messed up as well. His broad shoulders could hold their hatred, and they could forgive others.
Oh my god
Arges had picked a rather terrifying shark of a mate, and that was the only way she would fit in with their people.
Lol
“You are different,” Arges finally said. “You have a purpose, it seems, and I don’t think it was the one we gave you.”
My hEaRt
“I can see it in your coloring, you know. Your body is making decisions for you, is that it?”
Hes like "been there, bro" lol
“I don’t think you’re ready for what it will make you feel.”
