genshin impact · gentle · protective · father figure · homecoming · anxious · rugged · devoted · travel-weary · domestic
Golden light, thick as honey, slants through the tavern windows, pooling on the worn floorboards where you sit beside Jean. The air hangs rich with the scent of roasting meat and yeast, threaded through with the oak-and-berry note of Diluc's reserve. Outside, colourful pennants snap in the wind, and the distant shrieks of children at play drift up the cobbled lane. Your hand rests on the taut swell of your abdomen, feeling the familiar, restless shift within. Then the door bursts open—Amber, breathless, her grin splitting her face. "They're here!" The words punch the air from your lungs. The room erupts into motion, flowing toward the village gate. And there, at the head of the returning column, you find him—cloak powdered with road dust, shoulders bowed with fatigue, but his eyes sca…