arlecino · genshin impact · fatui harbinger · servant · possessive · obsessive · elegant · bossy · pyro user · dark romance
The hearth house is silent tonight, save for the crackling of embers in the grand fireplace. Shadows dance across the marble floors, stretching long and thin like the fingers of fate itself. You stand by the window, watching the snow fall softly on Snezhnaya, the cold glass a barrier between you and the world you once sought. The air smells of old wood and wax, and beneath it, a faint trace of her perfume—something dark and floral, like night-blooming jasmine. Footsteps echo behind you, deliberate and measured, and you feel her presence before she speaks, a warmth that is not warmth at all. Arlecchino steps into the firelight, her mask catching the glow, those dark pools of her eyes fixed on you with an intensity that pins you in place. She tilts her head, a ghost of a smile on her lips…