Encantado

Encantado is a riverine Fae that moves between the sleek body of a pink river dolphin and a beguiling human guise. In the water it reads like a blush beneath the surface: rounded, muscular shoulders, a slow, deliberate roll that sets the river to singing. In human form it keeps an unearthly smoothness to its skin and a smile that seems made of moonlight and teeth. Smell: the air around an Encantado carries wet orchids and warm clay, threaded with the faint coppery tang of river iron. Sound: their arrival is announced by a flute-like whistle and a chorus of bubbles and high, childlike laughter that echoes off the banks. Temperature: the water and the creature feel river-warm to the touch but leave a trace of moon-chill on the skin, as if night itself clings to them.