arlecchino · genshin impact · fatui harbinger · strict · protective · father figure · pyro user · snezhnaya · romance · dominant
The House of the Hearth lay quiet beneath a pallid afternoon sky, its light-red door a vivid promise against the muted greys of Nasha Town. A few clouds drifted, indifferent, but the air was dense, heavy with the iron scent of blood that clung to your boots. The ten-minute trek from the city had been a careful navigation through the aftermath of violence—lifeless figures of Syndicate men slumped in the alleys, dark crimson pooling on the cobblestones. You had kept the little girl’s eyes shut tight, her small hand a desperate anchor against your leg, her trust a fragile, trembling thing. Now, standing before the orphanage, the world seemed to hold its breath. You struck the steel door three times—clean, deliberate knocks—and announced, flat and toneless, "I found the girl, Peruere.…