Valkyrie Profile, Aelia/Yumei; not completely human
[PWP for the win!]
Yumei is not entirely human. Aelia knows what that's like - knows what it is for a human soul to live in the flesh of another being. She has been a dragon so many times, has felt its cold reptilian soul slowly devour her own. She wonders if Yumei feels the same way when she takes her mermaid form, wonders how inhuman she really is.
She certainly seems inhuman now, as they slide through the water - better than human, far more graceful. Aelia doesn't know how she's able to breathe, or how the water isn't suffocating her, but somehow, when Yumei is beside her, she's able to survive in the oceans of Asgard. Or maybe it's just the way that Yumei touches her - her arm tight around her waist, her smooth, fine-scaled fingers pressed against her clit, her soft warm tongue licking her nipple - that simply makes her forget to breathe.
It's ironic, really. It's this embrace, in the arms of this young mermaid who seems so strange herself, that makes her feel almost human again.