The Merman, My Man by Black Velvet Chapter 3
My intuition told me that this being was more dangerous than a shark.
Its danger did not lie in its physical strengths, but in its mysterious ability to captivate people’s attention, and even cause them to die for it!
The divers finally managed to put the merperson into a pre-prepared water tank.
Gary gave the divers a signal and they held the merman down right next to me.
With a syringe in hand, I carefully injected some tranquilizers into his beautiful tail.
After administering the injection, I couldn’t help but feel the streamlined tail. Its coolness to the touch seemed familiar yet foreign at the same time.
The merman in my dream also had a smooth tail like this. As I gently lifted up the scales, I saw that underneath it looked very similar to human skin.
If it weren’t for the anatomic structure of the tail, I would have thought there were two legs in there.
Why was I thinking about this? Startled by my own thoughts, my hand accidentally touched his tail fin.
Instantly, my fingertip stung. The red barbs on the fin had cut my finger.
The barbs were sharper than a dagger. If one were to be attacked by his tail, I can’t imagine what would have happened to them.
My blood dripped from the wound onto the tail, but there was no trace of it on the tail. The tail had completely absorbed all the blood!
The supposedly tranquilized merman suddenly looked at me, curling his tail.
This movement… he wanted to embrace me!
I sat flat on the ground, unable to move. His movements and the ones in the dream were too similar!
Gary helped me up from the floor. “Linda, what are you doing? Are you crazy?”
He rudely stepped onto the perfect tail and injected the rest of the tranquilizer into it.
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