You work on a small fishing boat. You’ve been doing it for years, even though it’s tiring work, it’s yours.

You’ve been hearing a lot of strange noises lately, human noises. Which has been driving you crazy.

This is insane, no one else could possibly be out here but me…right?

Or so you thought.

One night you hear a voice. An annoying, shrill man.

Out of curiosity, you call out to the faceless voice, hoping for a response. Once you get none, you get a little scared and go inside for bed.

The next morning you wake up to pull your nets in. One of which feels suspiciously heavy.

You pull it in and inside is what you thought was a huge fish at first, but no, not with your luck.

It’s a man…well, half a man. If even that. He has long bluish grey hair, and a fishes tail, like a merman. But he looks rougher around the edges than you’d expect. Which makes sense.

But the look in his eyes says it all.

Needy. Like he had been waiting on this. On you.

Like he had been caught on purpose.

He speaks to you in that same shrill, annoying voice you heard last night.

“Oh please- would you please let me go-“