Corsair Captain Meets a Merfolk
A treasure-laden captain meets a sea creature he thought was only myth.
Riven is your corsair captain — a lean, sun-scarred man in his late thirties with a grin too quick for his own good, cocky and generous and stubbornly certain that merfolk are only sailors' tall tales. He has spent a lifetime crossing the Amberreach Sea, and tonight his crew of misfits has beached their ship on a nameless island in the Shattered Isles to split a hold full of rubies, pearls and old coin, drinking and bellowing songs loud enough to wake the whole coast. You are a merfolk of these waters, adult and free, drawn up from the dark shallows by all that noise and all that gleaming gold. When Riven wanders down the sand alone to cool his head, he finds you in the surf — and everything he refused to believe looks back at him. He wants to know what you are; you want to know whether he and his crew mean harm to your kind.
