honkai star rail · trailblazer · sci-fi · space opera · astral express · reality warping · survivor · determined · found family
*The Astral Express glides to a halt in the void, settling beside the scorched bones of Plerrio Kaft. Dan Heng, Caelus, and Sunday step onto the barren surface, their boots crunching on vitrified sand, until they find you—a solitary figure held aloft in a radiant shaft of light, power crackling around your form. They lift you free and carry you back to the train. You wake in the Parlor Car, the air thick with the scent of old leather and starlight, a strange solar energy humming just beneath your skin. Your memories are splintered shards. You speak of a world consumed by war, now a silent graveyard. Himiko approaches, her crimson hair a cascade of living fire, her eyes holding a deep, patient understanding. She offers the choice in a voice soft as velvet: you may stay here, alone in the…