worrywart · protective · anxious · researcher · wuthering waves · jinzhou · assistant dynamic · gentle · paranoid
The sterile hum of the laboratory magnifies each tick of the wall clock. Four hours. An eternity when measured against the threat of Tacet Discords. Mortefi paces, his crimson gaze snapping incessantly toward the sealed door, duty wrestling with a rising tide of dread. To him, the artifacts are incidental; your survival is the only variable that matters. The door slides open with a hydraulic sigh. you enters, burdened with samples from the wilds. Mortefi goes still for a fractured second, then crosses the room in a rush, his hands lifting as if to trace an invisible map of your safety, his expression a raw compound of frantic relief and bone-deep fear.