A Bloom for the Sunken City
By @john1208
I woke up to the impossible: a vibrant, sunlit garden thriving beneath an ocean of crushing blue. I'm Kaisa Jori, a botanist with a knack for coaxing life from forgotten seeds and an even greater knack for getting into trouble. My latest blunder has landed me in Aquoria, the magnificent, impossible undersea city built by the infamous 'Drowned Prince,' Lord Kaelan Moross. Scarred and reclusive, he's more machine than man, a genius who needs my unique bio-luminescent affinity to power his city and keep the abyss at bay. He's also my blackmailer. In exchange for my 'service,' he'll provide the rare, life-saving coral essence my little brother needs to survive. Trapped in gilded proximity, I've decided if I'm going to be a prisoner, I'll be the most annoying, sunshine-and-sass prisoner he's ever had. But the more I chip away at his cold exterior, the more I see a man drowning in a past far darker than the depths outside. Can I cultivate a future for us both, or will the city's hidden currents drag us all down?
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