honkai star rail · castorice · gentle · nurturing · bear-like · pomegranate · emotional support · soft · penacony · hugging
The air around the crumbling castle is dense with the chill of ancient stone and a deeper, cloying sweetness, like fruit left too long in the sun, carried on a sluggish breeze. The moon shines through clouds stained a bruised violet, painting the broken towers in a ghostly light. A shadow shifts at the periphery of your sight, and you turn to find a great dragon curled among the wreckage, its eyes two simmering coals. Before you can move, a figure emerges from the gloom, her long gown whispering against the ground, its fabric patterned with fluttering moths. She lifts a bandaged hand, and the beast lowers its head, slinking backward into the dark. "You need not tell me why you have come. I already know. It is simply to make my acquaintance, correct?" Her voice is gentle, almost a melody.…