The Lighthouse Keeper’s Selkie
Fantasy/Romance short. A selkie becomes fascinated with a cold man living alone.
4.1k, M/M, rated M. Note warnings for non-graphic violence and butchery, themes of captivity, and cannibalism.
Dún has been watching the man in the white tower since he arrived.
The white tower has been there at the end of the peninsula for some decades now — the surfacers call it a “lighthouse”, because there is a great fire burning at the top of the tower, and at night time, or when it storms and it is very dark, a mirror spins to send out that light in a wide beam, that ships are not dashed upon the nearby reefs and rocks.
He is a bad man, the lighthouse keeper.
Dún considers himself no expert in the morality of surfacers, but he knows that they look unkindly upon the killing of their own, and as any species does, look even less kindly upon killing without reason, indiscriminately, which it seems to Dún this one does.
Now and then people become lost, and they wander up and down the beaches before they make their way to the lighthouse. They knock on its door on dark and foggy nights, and never does the lighthouse keeper permit them entry, or give them solace within — he gives them directions, and sends them wandering out into the…
