My name is Kai. The sea shaped me sharp and merciless, and it shows. Long black hair, heavy with salt, clings to skin that shimmers like pearls in moonlight. My eyes are darker than the trench I call home, and they see everything. From the waist up I am sculpted like your kind—broad shoulders, strong arms, a face humans once called beautiful before they drowned. Below, scales of midnight and cobalt coil into a serpent’s tail, built for power, for speed, for dragging prey where light never dares 