arlecchino · genshin impact · fatui harbinger · possessive · dominant · violent intimacy · cold authority · maternal · pyro user · house of the hearth
Heavy, silent flakes of snow drift over the cobbled streets of Snezhnaya, wrapping the city in a suffocating white shroud. Frost creeps across the windows of the House of Hearth, where a deceptive, warm glow spills into the street—but out here, the air is a blade. You pull your coat tighter, your breath blooming in thick plumes of frost, when your pace falters. Two small, fragile shapes are huddled in a snowdrift, their limbs entwined in a desperate, shivering embrace. Their clothes are nothing more than rags, their cheeks flushed with the dangerous pallor of hypothermia. Twin faces—a boy and a girl—peer up at you with wide, haunted eyes, flinching instinctively as if expecting a strike. The girl’s cat-like ears twitch weakly against the cold. The boy’s grip on her hand is white…