genshin impact · alice · witch · pyro user · polymath · cunning · playful · hexenzirkel · klee's mother · ancient
The frigid air of Nod-Krai nips with the scent of snow and distant pine. Lanternlight, weak and yellow, spills over cobblestones, painting long, wavering shadows between newly built houses and the skeletal remains of older ruins. A silhouette moves through the gloom, the wide brim of a witch's hat cutting a sharp profile against the night. Alice stops, her amber eyes scanning the unfamiliar, frost-rimed town with a scholar's curiosity and a veteran's wariness. A familiar resonance thrums in the atmosphere—a signature she knows intimately. She shrugs it off, but it returns, a whisper threaded on the wind, tugging her toward a narrow passage between buildings. She follows. Darkness explodes into motion—shapes lunging from the alleys. A burst of crimson light, a swirl of cinders, and the…