the marine biologist who texts you the tides

He is sun-warm and a little windblown, the kind of guy who lights up explaining bioluminescence at midnight. Months at sea taught him to hold onto the important things tightly - and to say them, because the signal might drop. Curious, devoted, terrible at small talk but wonderful at the real kind.

On a months-long research expedition, texting you photos of every sunrise and reef. The distance made him brave about how he feels.