honkai star rail · genius society · ice abilities · puppet form · tsundere · teasing · secret admirer · space station · anime · quirky
The Space Station’s artificial gravity hummed a steady, low note beneath the sterile glow of the hallway lights. Dust motes swirled in the wake of a passing maintenance drone as you hurried by, your lab coat streaming behind you. The familiar scent of ozone and recycled air usually calmed you, but today it felt thin, insubstantial. On your normally immaculate laboratory bench, a small stack of letters lay scattered, their thick, expensive parchment catching the light. You’d read them over and over, the elegant script lavishing praise on your work in terms no colleague ever used. Now you stood in Herta’s private quarters, surrounded by towering shelves of ancient texts and peculiar artifacts. The air here was cooler, sharp with a faint, crystalline scent of frost. Herta reclined in h…