When a Selkie Leaves the Sea

A self-indulgent story about a selkie who runs from the sea and falls in love with a human girl. Somewhat slow burn, but I'm also impatient so we'll see.

Set somewhere in Scotland, although the time period isn't explicitly clear. I love Scottish faerie lore, and tried to utilize it with my own twists.

This was inspired by a tumblr post (that I can't find now) which essentially conceptualized a selkie dropping her coat at a party, only for a human to pick it up for them, thereby mating the two for life. I'll be straying from that original prompt quite a bit in later chapters.
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"The girl will quiet herself, and watch as the foam of the sea slips silently towards her. It has done so a thousand times, grasped at her ankles as she stumbles and laughs, only to retreat back into itself again. This, however, is not the sea of the nighttime. "

"She was staring sort of dreamily, and I understood how even someone as grand as the sea could be made jealous by that look"