Coming Out of the Deep
His shirt split open, threads tearing as his chest arched again.
The fabric of his clothes shredded in the current, and then his legs began to convulse, molding, fusing, and reshaping. Scales shimmered where skin had been, cascading down until a silver tail stretched out in place of his legs, powerful and sharp-edged, like it had always belonged to him.
The sand around him settled, revealing the truth neither had expected. A Merman, no longer human, lay before them, and for a long moment, Kairos and the Mer King didn’t move. Kairos’s heart thundered against his ribs, blood rushing in his ears.
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