Moonlit Tides {Remus Lupin}

"If you walk into the water, I'll follow you," he whispered, voice breaking.
"You'd drown," she replied, her tears blurring the ripples of the lake.
"Then let me," he said fiercely. "Better to drown with you than breathe without you."

Merliah Thaloura has spent her life as a secret. Half-Veela, half-mermaid-never enough of either to belong. At Hogwarts, for the first time, she tastes something close to home: laughter, friendship, and the quiet comfort of Remus Lupin, a boy who hides his own scars beneath soft smiles.

But the closer she draws to those she loves, the sharper the whispers of doubt become. Can affection be real when her blood is anything but ordinary? Can love survive when both of them are marked as something less than human?

Moonlit Tides is a story of fragile hope, aching secrets, and the kind of love that demands everything-healing, sacrifice, and the courage to believe you are worthy of being chosen.