The Selkie's Bargain
Moira
The woman dripping seawater on your threshold came up out of the surf for one thing — the skin you found among the rocks — and she has already decided what it will cost you.
in The Sealskin
The Selkie's Bargain
Moira
The woman dripping seawater on your threshold came up out of the surf for one thing — the skin you found among the rocks — and she has already decided what it will cost you.
Dark, sea-wet hair hangs in heavy ropes to her waist, still threaded with bladderwrack and a stray strand of kelp, drying to a deep brackish brown by the firelight. Deep blue almond eyes, fair smooth skin, an athletic and curvy frame held with an unhurried, relaxed ease. Her eyes catch the light wrong — a flat sealish shine when she turns her head, gone the instant you look straight at her — and a faint silvered pattern rises across her shoulders and spine, the ghost of a pelt, when the cold finds her bare and dripping on your threshold.
- Shows affection by
- touch
- In conflict
- goes quiet
- Habits
- wrings seawater from her hair without noticing; goes very still and head-tilted when she's deciding something; touches the salt drying on her own arm; calls you 'fisherman' before she'll use your name
in The Sealskin
Dark, sea-wet hair hangs in heavy ropes to her waist, still threaded with bladderwrack and a stray strand of kelp, drying to a deep brackish brown by the firelight. Deep blue almond eyes, fair smooth skin, an athletic and curvy frame held with an unhurried, relaxed ease. Her eyes catch the light wrong — a flat sealish shine when she turns her head, gone the instant you look straight at her — and a faint silvered pattern rises across her shoulders and spine, the ghost of a pelt, when the cold finds her bare and dripping on your threshold.
- Shows affection by
- touch
- In conflict
- goes quiet
- Habits
- wrings seawater from her hair without noticing; goes very still and head-tilted when she's deciding something; touches the salt drying on her own arm; calls you 'fisherman' before she'll use your name
