⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀

/ REAL!!!! he’s taken over my life these days so i had yo

/ yeah ur so right.. just sighed dreamily

/ UR ACTIVE??

its lips falter,  now thinned after her response.  however its hold never once loosened,  rather,  it tightens instead.⠀ "  but i thought we were merely playing?  similarly to our younger days..  "⠀ a somewhat somber tone trails.  it may be a sickening notion,  they had thought of it that way. the chase,  the thrill of it--  yet it's difficult to grasp.⠀ "  ..  my eyes?   [  ∙∙∙  ]   if you were to see them now,  you will only be met with disappointment.  "⠀ this time,  it inclined forward.   their noses an inch or two apart,  and thus fleets a whisper.⠀ "  do you wish to see them?  "

蜃景  ⠀ ⠀ @holycursed ⠀     ࣪     ♱      ⠀ ⠀  [silence fills their embrace.   lottie does not reply at first,    it is evident along her features that she is figuring out what to tell it.   she's hesitant,    hands find themselves interlaced with zyriak's.]        "   you have attempted to kill me for years.    if i have not disappeared from your sights over that,    who says i will if your eyes do not resemble the ones that stared at me with worry so long ago?    after all,    your actions have expressed your feelings enough.    "

"  hmph?  one reckons you'd change your mind once one discards it,  lottie.  "⠀ it grinned.  besides the fact that the mask was for the fatui's  'trademark'..  there is still another reason he uses it.

蜃景  ⠀ ⠀ @sintempt ⠀     ࣪     ♱      ⠀ ⠀  [arms tucked below the trembling creature,    it's muzzle hidden inside the confines of her sweater.]      "   then we would have died!    i would have achieved for it to live,    right?    yes..    you'd be just fine..   and it is not a thing!    "       a huff,   eyes focused away from umito.

"  what?  why you—-  "⠀ umito bites back his tongue,  was arguing over this really necessary?  there wasn't even a single day where'd they wouldn't bicker.⠀ "  well i protected you.  how's that?   if i wasn't here,  both you and that..  that,  /thing/  would've been done for.  "

蜃景  ⠀ ⠀ @sintempt ⠀     ࣪     ♱      ⠀ ⠀"   you are the definition of reckless!    do not belittle my actions━━━━   i protected the animal!   "

⠀ ⠀ @sintempt ⠀ ▌  ࿚۪࿙ㅤׂ  ❀.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ i'm cold .ᐟ    don't ask how or why.

∗     on zyr!

⠀ ⠀ @holycursed ⠀ ▌  ࿚۪࿙ㅤׂ  ❀.⠀ ⠀ ⠀⦋    ..was he wrong .ᐣ     optics are trembling as they stare at the blood staining tanned hands.   there's a broken call to him  ﹔    would they help if she begged .ᐣ     there's a voice,    in the back of her head,    that calls out to her,    enticing her.    the scared gaze trails up to the towering man.    she tried⎯⎯all she did was try.      the blood coated hand tries to drag herself away from zyriak,    optics visibly changing from it's original color and a excruciating color of red.     she shouldn't have read the letter...     she should have stayed in fontaine and not return.    ⦌         i..    its not⎯⎯it's not..    

  ㅤ  ⠀⃘ᨗ᮰ּ⠀  ྀ  @sintempt ⠀ֺ♰༅  
            
              ﹐     i am not homesick...    i..     i do not miss my home.    i barely remember it.     i have nothing to miss⎯⎯give me the sake back,   umito!⠀ ⠀ ❜

 "⠀just 'cause,  i know how it's like.  you're likely homesick right now   [..]   drowning yourself in sake won't do good.⠀"

  ㅤ  ⠀⃘ᨗ᮰ּ⠀  ྀ  @sintempt ⠀ֺ♰༅  
            
              ﹐     mmh?    but why can't i..  ?⠀ ⠀ ❜

 ݁  ❊  ྀ   ⏜︵      ݃  s̤i̤n̤c̤e̤r̤e̤l̤y̤  ，  @owlsette 
            ❛    your  highness...  !    ❜     she  gasps,    arms  wrapped  tightly  around  them,    although  shivering  to  bits.     she  hasn't  been  in  snezhnaya  in  so  long...    she  got  so  used  to  heat  in  her  body.

"⠀the church and the fatui are two completely different things,⠀"   the staggering figure,   now leaned against bis torso—-  feognost’s arms kept a steady hold,   and eventually lifted her from the snow.   "⠀as long as i'm around,   no one will even dare to touch you.   (..)   come,   the snowstorm will engulf this area pretty soon.⠀"

 ݁  ❊  ྀ   ⏜︵      ݃  s̤i̤n̤c̤e̤r̤e̤l̤y̤  ，  @owlsette 
            ❛    you..    you...    you  must⎯⎯they  can..   can  not-t-t..    see  you  with  me.    ❜

∗     !