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Cold. Her fingertips and nose and ears were cold. But it was nothing Ganyu was not used to. Training in the mountains under Cloud Retainer’s watchful gaze had made her able to withstand and even embrace the frosty chill of her cryo vision.
Once more.
She steadied herself, slowly lifting the opalescent bow. Her fingertips grasped an arrow and carefully placed it in position, tilting her head as she did.
Pull.
Ganyu breathed in.
Release.
And let the air flow from her lungs. Her fingers let go of the bow, a slight frost lingering on her eyelashes. Ganyu tried to blink them away, staring at the graceful curve of the arrow, sure in hitting its target.
As she finally relaxed her shoulders a sudden figure appeared in front of her vision, too far to truly see. The figure reached out and the arrow stopped dead in its track.
Ganyu’s eyebrows stood up in surprise then furrowed when the figure disappeared in a cloud of mist. She circled around her peak, trying to pinpoint where the figure had gone when she suddenly felt hands wrap around her waist.
Ganyu gasped and was spun around and hoisted into a pair of steady arms. She looked down at iridescent eyes, a line of red extending from them.
A hand, still chilled from the arrow made of icicle, cupped her face and wiped away the remaining snow from Ganyu’s lashes.
“Miss me?”