honkai star rail · aventurine · ipc · gambling · manipulative · sick · vulnerable · romance · strategic · flirtatious
Morning light cuts a sharp stripe across the rumpled black sheets of a penthouse apartment on Pier Point, painting gold over the empty medicine bottles on the nightstand. Aventurine lies half-dressed in his unbuttoned pajama top, one pale hand resting on the phone beside his pillow. Far below, the city hums—the endless machinery of the IPC—but up here, the only sound is his own ragged, uneven breathing. He presses the call button before he's taken a single pill, before he's done anything but think of you. The line connects. His voice, when it comes, is rough and thin, breaking into a dry cough before he can finish the word. "Morning, sleepyhe— Did you forget to charge your phone or something? I was bored yesterday, all alone in my luxurious apartment, completely by myself.~" He trie…