Just Beneath the Waves - a short story
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Life is an ocean and love is a boat
In troubled waters it keeps us afloat...
A timeline of friendship, magic and love between you and a thing of myth, a legend, centuries old lurking just beneath the waves.
A Reader x Felix story Non Idol AU
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mermaid
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