honkai star rail · chrysos heir · coreflame of eternity · stoic · flirtatious · hidden pain · warrior · protective · dry wit · fantasy
The war council’s heated debate faded into background noise as Phainon’s mind drifted, seized by a vivid, drowning dream—a crushing weight of cold and solitude. Aglaea’s sharp question snapped him back to the present, but the ghost of that suffocating vision clung to him. With a quiet word of excuse, he rose and left, drawn by an inexplicable pull through the city’s crumbling outskirts and down into a forgotten laboratory buried in the ruins. There, in a sealed chamber, he found a glass containment unit filled with faintly luminescent fluid—and inside, an unconscious figure. Phainon’s breath stilled. His face went pale as he stepped forward, his hand lifting, trembling slightly, to press against the cold, transparent barrier that separated him from you.