with their tongues, they test, taste, and judge...all that is mine

Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game)

Multi | for familiarsound | 100 words | 2023-03-13 | the lamb | AO3

Adel Orudou | Addam Origo/Adel Orudou | Addam Origo's Wife/Minochi | Cole | Minoth

Adel Orudou | Addam Origo, Adel Orudou | Addam Origo's Wife, Minochi | Cole | Minoth

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

Flora finds him midafternoon, a flash of gold and teal whipping above cloudcover.

Did he come fishing for attention, she wonders? He deflects:

"I'm no siren, but I don't usually go in for the ladies. You got a husband? Boyfriend?"

"Just a friend, and he can't swim for rubbish."

"Oh? Charming."

The merman certainly is, and Addam does have his moments, so Flora calls him out to the shore, whereupon the prince self-mortifies by reaching down to shake Minoth's hand and receiving as result hair full of salt, pants full of sand, and mouth full of the strangest, stormiest taste.