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    "Acting Grand Master," Lawrence says, "we have another noise complaint."

    Kaeya leans against the doorway, watching as Lawrence places at report atop Jean's desk. Sighing, Jean tiredly rubs at her brow, before offering a curt nod.

    "Thank you," she says. "I will deal with the complaint shortly."

    Pushing off the doorway, Kaeya saunters past Lawrence, picking the report up, and casually flipping through it. Jean shoots him a stern look, but does not tell him to put it back down.

    "It's from one of the sisters," Kaeya observes, and reads aloud. "Perpetrator scaled statue outside church while drunk and sang loudly for three hours."

    Lawrence lets out a delicate cough.

     

    As Weinlesefest draws near, Kaeya notices a new mystery in the city of wind and wine — Jean and Diluc have been oddly permissive with Venti since the Stormterror Incident. Mischievously determined to get to the bottom of this, Kaeya soon makes a discovery that threatens to upend everything he knows. In the process, he must reconcile what it means to be Khaenri'ahn, and to love a city that belongs to a god.

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    17 Jun 2024

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    "Mr. Zhongli," Chef Mao says suddenly, "is a little strange, don't you think?"

    Surprised by the sudden and completely unsolicited comment, Xiangling looks up from her wok, tracing her father's eye to said Mr. Zhongli, leaning over an antique vase at one of the roadside stores. In her time at Wanmin Restaurant, however, she has certainly seen her fair share of strange customers, so after a moment, she just turns back to her frying, flipping the xianbing in the wok over one by one.

    "Why do you say that?" she asks, reaching across the counter for the cooking oil.

    "Dearest daughter," Chef Mao says then, "he is lecturing the seller on the origins of his own vase."

    Liyue Harbor is hive full of incorrigible gossips. Xiangling navigates the rumor mill, goes ingredient hunting with Zhongli, and in the process, finds out that Zhongli is very, very bad at pretending to be human.

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    Lynette looks at these shapes in the mirror, but the more she looks, the less she sees. Try as she might, she can’t connect what she sees to what she is.

    Lynette. That’s what she is, technically. But what is Lynette? A shadow? A princess? A trick of the eyes?

    She doesn’t know. The mirror never answers when she asks.

    She should stop asking, then. Talking to mirrors is a strange thing to do.

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    Shadows are cold. Shadows are dark. Shadows are deep. Shadows are safe.

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    Yanqing does not fear death.

    Such a fact is a perfect trait for a Cloud Knight, especially as the Lieutenant. To protect the people, to protect the General—one such as he should face the end with his head held high. That is the oath and duty he took up on his first day.

    Yanqing does not fear death.

    Such a fact is a terrible trait for a child, especially the one Jing Yuan raised. He has never been heavyhanded in training him—never held him back too much and never let him stray too far. The days he watched the boy chase small birds and play with toy swords were still fresh in his memories.

    Yanqing does fear death.

    But his fear of disappointing the General runs deeper. It goes further than any force that could release him from the mortal coil. No weapon cuts deeper than his father’s gold eyes turning away from him in shame.

    Honor, devotion, gratitude—courage will kill him, Jing Yuan realizes.

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    The train is quiet, the inhabitants are asleep. Except for Welt Yang, for whom sleep is only a distant memory, and, as it seems, Dan Heng.

    Dan Heng, who pointedly never speaks of his past. Dan Heng, who regards the whole world like it might lash out at any time.

    Dan Heng, who wants help but doesn’t know how to ask for it.

    (Aka, the fic where Welt has some revelations about Dan Heng’s dark past and also helps patch him up when his scars start coming open)

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