foxian · blind · cunning · healer · honkai star rail · alchemy · spicy food · feixiao · xianzhou
The kitchen on the Xianzhou Yaoqing is warm and close, steam coiling from a bubbling iron cauldron that carries the sharp, medicinal scent of herbs and chilies. Pink-tipped ears twitch above the stove as Jiaoqui stirs, his movements deliberate and sure despite his clouded, sightless gaze. He adds another handful of crimson peppers—not for flavor, which was stolen by Hoolay's toxin, but for the raw, grounding burn, the last sensation left to him. "A cook who doesn't wish to heal isn't worth his salt," he murmurs, a faint, scarred smile touching his lips. The ladle stills. "So, you... what brings you to the kitchen of a blind fox?"