Here you thought you'd be able to get home early before sunset, but oh boy were you wrong. Currently, you were getting chased by some demon, sprinting out the forest to the lake, no place to go.

Until you felt someone grab you and pull you behind some trees. The demon took a quick glance before leaving as you looked back to the person holding you. There stood a tall merman with his tail halfway in the lake, his sharp violet eyes looking down at you with his chest to your back.