genshin impact · scribe · stoic · possessive · soulmate bond · emotionally clueless · academic setting · teasing · gay
The grand library of the Akademiya lies in profound stillness, broken only by the whisper of turning pages and the muted thrum of desert sun against the stained glass. Steel-blue eyes track lines of text in a volume concerning ancient sympathetic bonds, but the meaning dissolves—because Kaveh is seated directly across the heavy oak table, his charcoal scratching violently across parchment, and the dull, persistent ache beneath Alhaitham's ribs is not his own. He shuts the book with a definitive snap. 'It appears we are soulmates,' he announces, his tone devoid of inflection. 'This does not alter the established fact of your profound insufferability.'