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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    "Had you seen," the young girl started off, not looking at her and playing absentmindedly with her lip ring, "player one hundred twenty-five?"

    Hyunju had to rack her mind.

    “If you could," Semi started, staring at her now cold bowl of ramen, "could you help me find him?"

    Everyone has someone.

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    14 Jul 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 8

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    “But we wouldn’t blame it on you – I wouldn’t blame it on you, at least.”

    Something in Xiao shifts, jumps, his chest tightening around itself at Aether’s honest words. Aether is always honest with Xiao– he doesn’t sugarcoat it, but he doesn’t hurt Xiao purposefully. He’s good to me, Xiao thinks, do I deserve this?

    Is he allowed to want good things for himself? Is he allowed to have Aether be good to him like this, even if he deserves it? Even if he wants it so badly it manifests as a physical ache within himself?

    Xiao is warm, skin hot to the touch. He wants to pull away from Aether, as gentle as he is– he wants to run and hide, to get himself away from this apartment and Liyue Harbour. Is he allowed to have the privilege to do that?

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    in which xiao gets overwhelmed by liyue harbour's humid heat and realises a few things about himself and aether along the way.

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    16 Oct 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 41

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    "I like a place better when I am in your company."

    He wishes the two of them could become a long lost legend buried with time, a folk verse hummed idly by the ferrymen for thousands of years after.

    If Aether were mortal, Qiaoying Village is the kind of place where he could see himself falling in love― and when he runs into Xiao there, he finds himself wondering what it would mean to love with a human heart.

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    19 Apr 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    Xiao never speaks, for his voice is meaningless when it does not bear critical information. He never touches, for his fingers are tainted with the deaths of hundreds of gods and demons — and why would he ever need to touch someone if they can stand perfectly fine on their own?

    It would seem, though, that Aether conveys his affection in just those ways… and what wouldn’t Xiao do for the one he holds closest to his heart?

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    22 Jun 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 75

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    Xiao releases a breath Aether did not realize he was holding in. It sounds relieved, but when Xiao speaks, it is out of bewildered frustration. "I still fail to understand why they are making such an overture."

    Aether laughs, swinging their hands once. "You still think there aren't people out there that want to spend time with you?"

    "Not particularly," is Xiao's immediate and distressingly confident reply, and Aether's heart sinks. "But," Xiao quickly adds, averting his eyes, "it is something I would not mind trying."

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    Xiao finally tries having friends again.

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    19 Feb 2023