Saturnverse
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1. Where do you find the balance? What do you give up, a child’s wonder and ability to reach for the stars in that brilliant night sky, or their ability to breathe at all?
2. We are greeders, you and I. We want life, and we also want that feeling of wind in our hair, those rapid heartbeats and that immeasurable high.
3. Let the hypocrites and sinners dream, frozen though they may be in that lake of ice.You taught me the courage of stars before you left / How light carries on endlessly, even after death / With shortness of breath / You explained the infinite / And how rare and beautiful it is to even exist
In which Xiao gets a strange summons to Mondstadt, and uncovers all the secrets a perpetually drunk archon never wanted anyone to find. (Xiao gets bullied. Xiao participates in Windblume for all the wrong reasons. Xiao gets an offer to become one of the Four Winds. Xiao gets even more second hand PTSD. Xiao gets a flower crown and dances -)
(Original prompt per Kohime was Xiaoven angst where Xiao has to eat Venti's dreams. Don't ask me how it came to this.)
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- Part 1 of Saturnverse
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Almost alone with his thoughts - more alone than he's been allowed to be for many centuries - the serenity and meditative quality of the whole thing is almost unassumingly, overwhelmingly addictive. It makes him recall fond moments from a certain starborne traveler’s teapot. It makes him think of windwheel asters and the sight of pale smoke rising from chimneys in Springvale. It makes him think of happy endings, of things working out, of -
He's still learning to not just instinctively back away from such ideas.
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- Part 2 of Saturnverse
