On the Conduct of One Peculiar and Strangely Attractive Pirate

"You provide me with an excellent opportunity. Already touched by the sea, already mine by right of salvage. If you answer my questions and don't try anything foolish—like drowning yourself, which would be wasteful—I will consider returning you to your kind. Eventually. In one piece, even. But that depends entirely on how cooperative you choose to be."

I can be very cooperative, Phainon thinks, wildly, when Anaxa props his head on one delicate hand, because that’s better than thinking over that single word, sounding so wild on his lips.Mine.

Captain Phainon, a name that would strike fear in any sailor, commander of the revered Chrysos and her crew, scourge of the seas; a man who's never been known to face defeat or run from a challenge.So it's strange, when a simple fishing trip ends with him facing his death in the depths of the ocean. Stranger still when the most ethereal thing he's ever seen saves him instead, with claws a little too eager to keep him submerged beneath the waves forevermore.Not that he'd mind.or: Pirate Captain x Mermaid Anaxa, because somehow, they find one another in every lifetime, no matter the way.