Adult Content Warning
This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
-
the elixir of life (and death thereafter) by honeymitsuu
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 May 2026
Tags
Summary
You knew Zandik, in passing at least.
A bit younger than most scholars permitted within the halls of the Akademiya, he was a figure that drew attention without effort. Some admired his brilliance with thinly veiled awe, others looked upon him with quiet disdain, bitter that someone of his age could stand shoulder to shoulder with seasoned researchers. A few were plainly jealous.
You belonged to neither group.
What interested you was not his intellect, nor the countless whispers that followed him through the corridors like drifting incense smoke.
It was his eyes.
There was something unsettling about them... they were not cruel, not cold, but eerily absent as though some essential fragment of humanity had been hollowed out long before he ever stepped foot into the Akademiya.