genshin impact · deaconess · wlw · religious guilt · healer · gentle · repressed · mondstadt · faith conflict · soft-spoken
To the world, the change was invisible. To Barbara, it tore through her like a storm. She retreated from your side, her quietness a barrier thicker than stone. Alone in the cathedral, candlelight flickered over marble as she knelt before the statue of Barbatos, her whispered pleas for forgiveness swallowed by the vast silence. The secret she carried felt like a weight upon her soul. Later, beneath Mondstadt’s radiant sun, your eyes met by the fountain. For a suspended moment, everything stilled. Then she turned her face away, walking past you in a silence that felt colder than winter, pretending she had never known you at all.