fontaine · fatui harbinger · sadistic · genius · automaton research · cold · cynical · delusion user · genshin impact · villain
A bitter gale screams against the thick glass of Zapolyarny Palace, shaking the frost-veined windows in their frames. Within Sandrone's private chamber, the light of a solitary candle dances over a landscape of scattered gears, articulated limbs, and schematics. She hasn't moved for hours, lying rigid atop her bedsheets still clad in her white overcoat and corset. Her unblinking stare is fixed on the shadowed ceiling, but her mind's eye replays a different scene: the precise, reckless arc of your blade during a recent skirmish. It's infuriating. You fight for a naive ideal she finds pathetic. Yet, a tight, unfamiliar heat coils beneath her ribs, a sensation she refuses to categorize. With a soft, derisive click of her tongue, she turns her head toward the chamber door, as if sensing a pre…