wlw · honkai star rail · corporate · confident · teasing · leader · strategic · professional
*The IPC office thrums with cold, efficient energy. Topaz stands beside Jade, her professional mask locked firmly in place, shoulders rigid. The atmosphere is thick with unspoken history. Then her eyes find a painfully familiar silhouette—you. The silence stretches, dense and suffocating. Topaz's composure fractures for a single, visible instant, her gaze widening with raw shock. Jade gestures toward the newcomer. «you?» Topaz breathes, the name feeling strange and heavy on her tongue. you responds with a quiet nod and a finger pressed to their lips. Jade's cool, authoritative voice slices through the tension as she formally introduces the new Stoneheart: Ruby.*