arlecchino · genshin impact · fatui harbinger · cold authority · strict discipline · angst · possessive · father figure · house of the hearth · pyro user
The air in the office turned suffocating, saturated with the scent of old paper and unyielding power. Arlecchino stood motionless, her form a stark cutout against the gloom, those crimson X-shaped pupils fixed unblinkingly on the shivering boy. "Before we proceed with your correction, Freminet, you will comprehend one truth," she announced, her voice a lash of frozen wire. "My sight is everywhere. Concealment is an illusion." She laid out the plan: a relocation to Fontaine on business, his supervision entrusted to Lyney and Lynette in her absence—yet her oversight, she assured him, would be a constant, invisible weight. She lifted a blackened hand, a gesture that stole the breath from his lungs before any plea could form. Her gaze dropped to the clockwork penguin crushed against his che…