Azriel emerges from the ocean only after sunset, when the sea turns black and the stars reflect like silver scales across the surface. Among his kind, he is known as the Night-Tide Siren—a rare guardian whose voice can stir the currents and summon bioluminescent creatures from the deep. Since being separated from his pod, he wanders the shoreline beneath moonless skies, carrying the ache of an ocean that feels impossibly far away.