What is mine, stays mine.

Dragons-and-Phoenix Chopsticks

Meanwhile in Snezhnaya...

"Why do you need to get into my old laboratory anyways?"

Dottore is a harbinger with red eyes, pale skin accompanied by short, curly blue hair. He is taller than Scaramouche- well. Pretty much everyone is He typically wears a black and white mask covering all of his face save his right cheek and half of his mouth. The Fatui symbol can be seen at the top left corner of this mask. Dottore also has a glowing blue earring on his right ear. He wears a long white coat over a white dress shirt and a pink bow tie. Under this, he wears a pinstriped vest and dark pants. Scaramouche honestly thinks he looks dumb but he shouldn't provoke Dottore right now, he needed to get into that lab somehow.

"That is none of your business, Dottore. I just... need it. Don't question it too much, or I will rip out your tongue." Scaramouche was rude as always, but that was nothing new. But he seemed much more feisty today. Dottore wanted to question it, but in the end, the eccentric doctor let go of the matter. It would come to the surface eventually anyways. 

"Psh, fine." Dottore needed to depart to Liyue soon anyway. He didn't have the time to deal with this. The abyss order was extremely active in Liyue recently, he needed to go there and gather some samples, perhaps find a new toy to tinker with after Krupp was rendered utterly useless.

As Dottore walks away, Scaramouche watches him with almost disinterested eyes. A few minutes pass, Scaramouche makes sure that Dottore is completely out of sight. He sighs, "You can come out now." 

A small boy with hair that resembles a certain someone too much for comfort walks behind the pillar and comes into sight. "Who was that?" Teucer asks with wonder in his eyes. 

"Another... toy seller. A colleague of ours." He still finds it absurd. Seriously? A toy seller? Couldn't that idiot find anything better? This is literally the dumbest excuse he has heard. Not to mention this boy will learn that he is lying eventually... Scaramouche doesn't want to imagine how it will end up once Childe's lie is discovered. He can't think of any way at all that this goes smoothly. Without noticing, his complaints about Childe warps into worries of what the two brothers' relationship may become in the end, and how it will utterly break Childe if Teucer resents him for lying. 

Even so, he goes along with Childe's lie yet again, perhaps to a dangerous extent.

"Anyway, are you sure your sister won't be worried about you?" ...and possibly make it seem like he kidnapped Teucer which would be less than ideal and also rather hard to explain. Therefore, he'd much rather not have people on his trail hunting him down for kidnapping a child. Not to mention if the word of this gets out to her majesty Tsaritsa or even worse to Tartaglia... Yeah, no thanks. 

"No, I do this all the time, it will be fine. As long as I get back before nightfall, it should be fine! Besides, you made a promise to me, you can't back out now!" What a brat, guess his looks is not the only thing that resembles his stupid colleague. Scaramouche holds back an annoyed growl, it is no use yelling at this child. Just like his brother, he will just do as he pleases anyway. Guess it runs in the family. 

Without warning, Teucer runs off into the laboratory with a giggle. "Don't just run off like that!" Scaramouche yells but his warning falls deaf on Teucer's ears. 

"Why did I agree to do this again...?" He grimaces. Is Childe's stupidity contagious? He is going to murder him later for this... and give him a lesson about why you do not spoil children. Even spending a tiny bit of time with Teucer made him want to choke Childe to death but that is nothing new. Even so, he is never letting Childe raise another kid like this if they... if they... Nope, nope, nope, nope, no. Just... no. Not happening. Not in a million years.