Atlas of the Deep Sea: Eternal Night Tides

I raised the last merfolk in the deep sea, all to complete an illustrated compendium passed down through the ages.

On the day he came of age, the vast ocean beneath my brush turned into a cage, and he leaned down to whisper, "Teacher, you are the page I will never finish painting."

Theme: Obsession becomes an ocean, and human and merfolk save and sustain each other