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    close clasp thy heart

    He’s Venti’s friend, at first by association and then through a hidden love of music and soft things. Venti’s visited him before, played his songs for Xiao to help him sleep a little better. He has good coffee, better desserts, and the loveliest bird that learns new tricks every time Venti comes over.

    Oh, and the sex. The sex is also nice.

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    “Xiao?” Ganyu calls hesitantly.

    He lowers his flute. His head tilts to face her. For a moment, all he does is stare. His eyes are wide, but they unnerve her all the same. It’s almost as if…

    “Ganyu,” he says softly. Relief unfurls in her chest. She lowers her hand back down to her side — when did she raise it to cover her heart?

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    There's something different about Xiao.

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    12 Mar 2026

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    dig down low to stay lit

    “Xiao?” Ganyu calls hesitantly.

    He lowers his flute. His head tilts to face her. For a moment, all he does is stare. His eyes are wide, but they unnerve her all the same. It’s almost as if…

    “Ganyu,” he says softly. Relief unfurls in her chest. She lowers her hand back down to her side — when did she raise it to cover her heart?
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    There's something different about Xiao.

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    Usually, Venti's letters arrived on Xiao's balcony, sent in by the breeze. They never arrived through the typical courier system. Xiao found the change strange, but not strange enough to not immediately open the letter and pour over the sweet words within. Venti’s poetry always soothed him, but this one left him with a lingering question. These weren’t sweet words to comfort him. This was an invitation.

    Two days later, standing at the gates of Mondstadt City, Xiao realized something.

    Venti said to find him at the Windblume Festival.

    But he didn’t say where within the city he was. 

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    twenty-thousand leagues of poetry (about you)

    Usually, Venti's letters arrived on Xiao's balcony, sent in by the breeze. They never arrived through the typical courier system. Xiao found the change strange, but not strange enough to not immediately open the letter and pour over the sweet words within. Venti’s poetry always soothed him, but this one left him with a lingering question. These weren’t sweet words to comfort him. This was an invitation.

    Two days later, standing at the gates of Mondstadt City, Xiao realized something.

    Venti said to find him at the Windblume Festival.

    But he didn’t say where within the city he was.

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    “What could I possibly have to forgive you for?” Venti asks.

    What could Xiao say? There are so many answers. For trying to grant him freedom and only giving him the same power that’s doomed to tear him apart. For hearing that Morax died so long after he did. For starving for his touch so selfishly. For letting him be lonely. There’s so much; they tangle in his throat.

    “For making you wait,” he settles on.

    “Ehe, I'll forgive you, but only if you play a duet with me tomorrow."

    He has work to do, but— “Yes.”

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    How the duty-chained Anemo Archon and the Trickster Yaksha found freedom.

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    to be unbroken and brave again

    “What could I possibly have to forgive you for?” Venti asks.

    What could Xiao say? There are so many answers. For trying to grant him freedom and only giving him the same power that’s doomed to tear him apart. For hearing that Morax died so long after he did. For starving for his touch so selfishly. For letting him be lonely. There’s so much; they tangle in his throat.

    “For making you wait,” he settles on.

    “Ehe, I'll forgive you, but only if you play a duet with me tomorrow."

    He has work to do, but— “Yes.”
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    How the duty-chained Anemo Archon and the Trickster Yaksha found freedom.

  5. Public Bookmark 32

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    Inserting Wriolette into canon, one story at a time. All fics are in chronological order.

    The Gavel's Cry - post 4.1, immediately after the events of the story quest
    The Cerberus' Bite - between 4.1 and 4.2, some time after the events of The Gavel's Cry
    The Fountain's Glow - after the Fontaine main questline, many months after The Cerberus' Bite

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    Pneumousia

    “You hold the responsibility of judging others. Identifying guilt and innocence.”

    “I do.”

    “But who judges you, Neuvillette? Who holds you accountable? You must be self-aware enough to have considered that.”

    Neuvillette stares, and slowly realizes, to his own unparalleled horror, that he never has.

    Rain begins to fall.