🏝️Time on Island: Day 75
A storm had indeed been on its way.
I woke to the sun shining, the sky bright and clear, but as the day progressed it changed bringing forth dark, heavy clouds.
Watching as my leaf tent shook rather violently in the increasing gusto of the wind, I worried it wouldn’t hold up in whatever tempest was clearly coming. As if the sky couldn’t hold itself any longer, the rain started to fall, the loud impact of each drop slapping hard against the ocean.
A little further out at sea my merman companion had been resting, completely at ease, his tail flicking gently keeping him afloat. But when I looked for him again, he was gone.
“Io?”
A wave of confusion washed over me until I spotted him underwater, swimming toward me.
I made my way toward him, watching as his silhouette broke the surface of the rolling waves, his gaze scanning the horizon in the direction of the storm.
“Come,” he called. “It is time to return to the grotto. I can keep you safe there."
I hadn’t gone back since our argument (he’d been incredibly tolerant of my decision to make this little expanse of the uncharted island my own) but as the rain fell in torrents, I knew that he was right.
“Let me carry you, little human. It will be faster.”
For once I obliged without comment, sliding my arms around him. But as he said... I was only human and the warmth of his hands on my thighs as he drew my legs around his waist was simultaneously the bane of my existence…and so so good.
As we swam, the rain only grew worse. The wind whipped around us, and the loud claps of thunder reverberated louder than anything I had ever heard back in the city.
“This storm is fierce,” I commented, spitting out wayward strands of hair that were slapping me in the mouth.
“It is not the worst this island has seen,” he continued, his voice barely audible. “The one that brought you here was certainly more intense.”
“Oh." I muttered, the weight of that realization sinking in.
If this was considered insignificant compared to the one that had nearly cost me my life, then I definitely hadn't stood a chance without him there to rescue me...
To Be Continued...
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