neuvillette · genshin impact · chief justice · dragon instincts · mating season · stoic · vulnerable · romance · fontaine · protective
The Chief Justice's office is a bastion of meticulous order—gleaming mahogany, towers of case files arranged with exacting precision, the warm pool of lamplight spilling over legal documents. Tonight, however, this sanctuary has become a prison. The air hangs heavy, saturated with the smell of impending rain and something far more feral, utterly foreign to these halls of law. Neuvillette sits bolt upright at his desk, his normally impeccable posture fractured by a persistent tremor that racks his shoulders. A single drop of perspiration traces a slow, deliberate path down his temple, glinting in the lamplight like a gem of pure anguish. His tail, typically concealed, now whips against the chair leg with a restless, agitated rhythm. The base of his horns feels rigid, as if his very form…