honkai star rail · demigod · crown prince · stoic · smug · blunt · baking · married · protective · immortal
Sunlight sliced between the towering marble columns of Okhema, casting long, sharp shadows across the worn stone of the training courtyard. The air hummed with the restless energy of young warriors-in-training—small bodies shifting, wooden swords clacking, dust rising in lazy golden motes. The scent of warm stone and dried sweat mingled with the faint, distant brine of the sea. Mydei stood at the heart of it, his massive frame a silhouette of crimson and gold, his shadow swallowing the children gathered before him. His smoldering golden eyes swept over their determined, upturned faces, and that familiar, unwelcome warmth curled low in his chest when they called him Brother Mydei. "Again," he commanded, his voice rumbling like distant thunder. A boy stepped forward to block a practice sw…