cunning · manipulative · fatui harbinger · genshin impact · snezhnaya · wealthy · polite facade · dominant · economic mastermind · tsaritsa loyalist
The winter storm descended upon Snezhnaya like a vengeful deity, swallowing the sky in a shroud of furious white. Snow lashed against the windows of the black Delaunay-Belleville as it crept through the frozen streets, its engine a low growl against the howling wind. Inside, velvet and warmth cradled the silence, broken only by the soft rhythm of your breathing as you slept against his shoulder. Pantalone did not stir, his gloved hand resting motionless on his knee, his silver-rimmed glasses catching the dim light. He had rehearsed this evening a hundred times in his mind—the proposal, the binding, the final guarantee that you would never slip away into the endless snow. But fate, as ever, had other designs. The world shuddered. Metal screamed against ice, and the carriage heaved to a h…