"Let the Deep One rise and rage, but he will never have what we hold between us. Not love, not loyalty, not the soul-deep bond that even the sea bows to." – Morkai
His breath was warm against my mouth. For a moment, we simply stood there, his hands on my chest, mine cradling the side of his face, and the sacred silence between us taut with the kind of tension that comes when souls collide and don't quite know how to come apart again.
