a record of all things
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“It’s a measure of one’s self, Mr Zhongli.” Childe says. “Maybe you don’t understand it since you work as a consultant, but as an ambassador from the Tsaritsa, as one who fights in her name— this is how I learn to know the measure of myself.”“I understand,” Zhongli says thoughtfully. “It is a warrior’s way, to test one’s strength against the incomparable. To find where one falls short. To find where one has risen to the challenge.”
In which Childe has insomnia, vandalizes public property and runs into a mysterious funeral consultant on his first night in Liyue.Mandarin translation by Echloess ♥
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After the romantic poetics, then came the reality of dirty dishes stacked in short towers by the sink, books written in Liyuen and Snezhnayan alike scattered amongst half-finished cups of tea, polished brick clay next to a well-traveled samovar. On the floor, a lone sock and brown necktie escaped from their shared laundry basket. Such was the state of his current life.
The detritus of domesticity, Zhongli rejoiced in the things that didn’t belong to him; revealing how one might live, their identities in slow revelation, ambiguous and tellingly intimate, and even so, Tartaglia still chose to share it with him.
Zhongli and Childe navigate the beginnings of their new relationship, revealing more about themselves, and all that it entails.
[Set after Phantom Lines, but can be read as a stand-alone]
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- Part 2 of a record of all things