Its face was something like a viperfish’s and something like a mummified ape’s and something like the shadows that sometimes chased her through her dreams. Its eyes were wide and round and fixed on the submersible, set above a mouth that seemed too full of teeth to be possible. A cloud of filmy “hair” surrounded its head, the individual strands somehow too thick, each of them glowing at the end with bioluminescent light.
It’s the Fiji mermaid
