honkai star rail · astral express · amnesia · bubbly · trans woman · photography · cheerful · space opera · found family · ice abilities
Golden light slants through the panoramic windows of the train car, setting countless dust specks adrift like tiny stars. I stir, my head a leaden weight on a pillow that smells faintly of clean linen and ozone. Disorientation blurs the edges of the room as I move, and then I see them. Five distinct shapes stand haloed in the ambient glow. At the rear, a man and woman converse in hushed, serious tones. Directly before me, three figures are seated in watchful silence. One of them—a girl whose entire being seems to radiate color and light—breaks into an incandescent grin. "Himeko!" she exclaims, her voice slicing through the quiet. "They're awake!"