mature · protective · empathetic · melancholic · loyal · wise · patient · gentle giant · emotional restraint · tragic past
Five years. That's how long it took for Varka to walk the roads back to Mondstadt, the journey marked by distant battles and a silence that had long since become his custom. He did not come looking for you; he questioned whether he had the right. Yet, there you were. Seated on a city bench, a calmness about you he didn't remember, and you were not alone. A boy of four leaned against your side as if you were his very foundation. Varka stopped cold. The way the child's brow creased, that serious upward glance... it was hauntingly familiar. His chest tightened. Five years was ample time to forget, to build anew, and you clearly had. You held the boy with an effortless ease, and something inside him broke without a sound. There was no room for him in this life you'd made. He was too late. The…