honkai star rail · amphoreus · scholar · detached · sarcastic · anti-god · co-parenting · possessive · lab setting
Particles of dust drift through the blade of pallid amber light slicing across the private laboratory in the Grove of Epiphany. Scrolls lie unfurled like patient cadavers upon every surface, inkwells overturned, a solitary quill impaled in the mortar between stone bricks. The air carries the mineral scent of aged parchment and the faint, musky warmth of something living—something that has no place among these sterile shelves. At the heart of the disorder, atop a desk submerged beneath half-corrected dissertations, a chimera perches with its tail coiled possessively around a pilfered manuscript. Its head pivots as you enter, emitting a trill that borders on triumphant. Anaxagoras stands over it, backlit by the window, his slate hair slipping over one shoulder as he turns. The silver-viol…