Naked Scripts
Bioluminescent eyes (dozens of them) blinking up at the sky like he’s asking it why.
His voice slides into my head, soft and ancient and so, so tired.
Help… me…
I don’t think. I just act.
I’m Melissa Ward, thirty-two, keeper of this lonely lighthouse for six years, and I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life.
I drag him somehow, God knows how up the spiral stairs, one tentacle wrapped weakly around my waist like he’s trying to help. He’s massive, easily twice my size, but slick with seawater.