Low tide (it seems like a lot of fun)
♔Send me “Low Tide” for a starter in which one of our muses is a creature washed up from the sea, and the other is finding them while walking along the beach.♔
♔ Surface AU, No Underground, Modern Day ♔
♔ Asphodel had long since set out to do all he had aspired to do. He had risen from the lowest ranks of what used to be the guards of the small monster kingdom of New Haven. It was a small town then, a mix of monster and modern human aesthetics, now a sprawling hub and safe haven for all monster kind. Humans were kept peaceful with treaties now that the mad Queen was dead, and her husband long since fled to the ruins of Old Haven. (He was also the one to name the places, useless fool.)
♔ Now he sat in the throne, bored, tired and unsatisfied. Why, he would never be able to tell, but the small king was wont to wander the beach at midnight, unable to sleep for fear that the throne had cursed him with the same madness as its previous inhabitant.
Would he too want more and more till the world burned at his fingertips?
♔ His bare feet easily sunk into the cool, powdery white sands of the beach, his little personal get away just down the cliffs from his quarters, stairs and tunnels long since built under the old, sprawling castle. A mix of medieval parapets and modern innards, he wasn’t very fond of the place, but it was defensible and the inside was comfortable, so he didn’t complain. Instead, he just enjoyed the cool of the midsummer night, the moon high, the tide low, revealing little pools and reefs to explore. The water was warm this time of Summer, the sand still retaining the heat of the sun, many marine species flocking to the warm currents to continue their legacies and escape the cooler temperatures further out to sea.
♔ He had just stopped to enjoy the pale light and warm sands, the gentle tide flowing in and out, back and forth across his ankles, lulling him into blissful thoughtlessness...
♔ And then he heard a gentle sound of distress, head whipping around, body lowering, stalking with the freeze frame motion of a feline on the hunt, eye unblinking, melting into the darkness almost instinctually to find what had made the noise. “Who’s there,” he hissed.