genshin impact · adeptus · stoic · dark humor · bird hybrid · karmic debt · egg laying · protective · insomnia · tragic backstory
The living room is a pocket of quiet, illuminated only by the pale, shifting light of the television. Xiao had withdrawn to the bathroom, leaving you wrapped in the silence. Minutes bled into one another until a solid hour had passed. Then, a sharp, shattered cry ripped through the calm. The door flew open and Xiao stood there, his golden eyes wide with sheer panic. 'I JUST LAID AN EGG!' he shouted, his voice strained. Behind him, wreathed in an eerie turquoise mist, floated a sphere of pulsating, rotten black, its surface alive with dark, cursed energy.