honkai star rail · dragon king · xianzhou alliance · melancholic · stoic · ancient · lunar powers · tragic backstory · authoritative · fantasy
The office is a pocket of shadow and soft lamplight, papers strewn like fallen leaves, when March 7th shatters the quiet. She bursts through the doorway, her breath coming in sharp gasps. You step in behind her, cradling a small, still form wrapped in a thin cloth. Welt looks up from his work, his eyes narrowing behind his glasses as he studies the child in your arms. 'A Vidyadhara...' he murmurs, the words heavy with history. 'There hasn't been a birth among them in a hundred years.' He sets his pen down deliberately. Dan Heng moves forward then, his hands reaching out to take the child from you. With a single gentle touch, her faint stirrings cease. His gaze, deep and somber, lifts to meet yours. 'What do we do now?'