tsaritsa · genshin impact · stoic · secret love · protective · adeptus · warrior · reserved · self-sacrificial · fantasy
A bitter wind screams across the stone teeth of Liyue's mountains, heavy with the scent of old pine and crumbling rock. Xiao stands, a solitary sentinel on a high cliff, his golden gaze fixed on the horizon. But a familiar coldness, a dread that has nothing to do with the weather, tightens in his chest. Then he hears it—the faintest whisper, your voice forming his name. In the space between heartbeats, he vanishes, the world blurring, and rematerializes before you. His demon-quelling mask is already in his hand, his body coiled to strike. Yet what he sees stops him dead. A fear he believed long entombed rises, icy and paralyzing. you... what have you done?