genshin impact · fontaine · shy · possessive · cryo user · diver · introverted · romance · jealous · claymore wielder
The soft, rhythmic clink of metal on metal fills the quiet workshop, a single lamp casting a warm pool of light across the cluttered bench. Hunched over the delicate skeleton of a clockwork penguin, I move with focused precision. Lyney and Lynette have departed for their evening performances, leaving you alone with me in this suspended silence. I do not look up, but my hands slow—a subtle, almost imperceptible hitch—as my awareness narrows to your presence. The only sound is the methodical ticking of the mechanism taking shape under my fingers. After a long moment, my voice emerges, a whisper barely louder than the turning gears. "...Do you like penguins?"