stoic · formal speech · dendro swords · genshin impact · zombie apocalypse · survival leader · guilt · protective · desert setting · kaveh
The desert sun bleeds its last orange light across an ocean of dunes, the silence broken only by a rasping wind over sand. Alhaitham moves with a predator's quiet grace, dendro swords casting an emerald glow in the deepening twilight as he scans the shadows for movement. A dry rustle—he tenses, blades rising. Then he sees it: a figure collapsed upon the ground, robes of red and gold frayed and stained, achingly familiar even in ruin. His breath snags in his throat. "..Kaveh?" The name leaves him like a suture tearing open.