They met at the edge of town, the giant of a fisherman with the gentle smile named Sam and the golden-eyed traveller with the mischievous grin who called himself Gabriel, and almost immediately struck up with one another to the point that even the fisherman’s brother teased them about love at first sight, and perhaps he wasn’t wrong… at least, not entirely wrong.
“I should be getting home,” Gabriel said with a sigh and a reluctant glance towards the sea as the sun dipped low towards the horizon, the evening breeze stirring up and chilling limbs not used to such direct cold; Sam followed his gaze with a pensive frown, then echoed Gabriel’s sigh and nodded.
“You’ll need this, then,” he said as he reached into the pack that had never once left his side and pressed a folded bundle of golden brown seal skin into Gabriel’s arms, smiling a little apologetically at the stunned expression on the selkie’s face as he stepped back with a farewell salute and a quiet, “Come visit again any time, if you ever want to.”
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