It reaches up to her waist, skirts billowing around her. Hands reach up and grab her waist, pulling her down into the ocean.
Seawater floods into her mouth, choking her. She looks up, gasping for breath-and sees the face of her captor.
He has a tail, btw. A beautiful, shimmering teal fish tail. He looks her in the eyes, cups her face in his hands...and kisses her.
...
Rose wakes up a while later on the shore. She´s soaking wet...and very confused. What happened? She-she fell into the ocean somehow...she-she almost drowned, she thinks...wait-was there...did someone save her? No...no...
She looks over. There´s someone laying next to her. A boy....
