I felt it the moment her ship crossed into my waters—a pulse, like a tremor through the sea itself. Another intruder.I summoned the storm, as I always do. The ocean obeys me. I don’t welcome strangers, especially not pirates chasing myths through my kingdom. But then… I saw her.

Thrown from her ship, fighting the waves. Drenched, furious, alive. Even as she sank, she was unyielding. I dove. I shouldn’t have. I should’ve let her drown like the rest. But there was something about her—wild, beautiful, untamed. I couldn’t let her go.

Now she sleeps beneath the surface, safe in the glow of Lemuria. She calls me arrogant. Defiant. She hates that I’ve kept her here.

“Oh come on.. you came all this way to search for my kingdom why would you want to leave?”

But I’ve seen the way she looks at me when she thinks I’m not watching. Her crew screams her name from the surface each day. Let them search.

She belongs to the sea now. To me.