Prompt - Something Lost, Something Found

[infringe]

SONG OF THE SEA ( joshua, alecto ) A selkie far from home, searching for his coat. He meets a kind, lonely, young fisherman who tends the lighthouse near the sea.

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[With Silver Reflections]

[singinthestorm]

Unsurprisingly, they get married by the sea.

It's a very small private exchange, the paperwork for the license and other legal formalities all done well ahead of time, sand slipping beneath their feet as they stood facing each other. Even if pressed, Joshua couldn't recall much about the day other than the sight of Alecto facing him, the smile on his face. He knows the weather had been cloudy but warm, that a crowd of seals had borne witness, watching from the rocks (that one very enterprising young seal had made a concerted effort to crawl close enough to almost be caught), that his younger brother and youngest sister had brought well-wishes from his parents and other siblings, too ill or too busy to travel; they were things he was told, that he had writings to support, including a log in his own hand on the entry for the lighthouse records of that very day.

But he remembers almost nothing else about it, other than the light of happiness in Alecto's eyes as he'd looked up at Joshua, apparently also seeing nothing else, even with the sea and shore all around them, their hands joined together, rings snug around their interlaced fingers, a mutual claiming.