perfect match ?

more than a mere mortal

starting this in venti pov woaaah

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venti had to do something. he couldn't let his old friend be forgotten by his loved ones. you see, there was a curse when a gnosis was taken away. the bearer of the gnosis would have the people who knew them losing something. they had memories taken away of the bearer. they can only be returned when the ex-gnosis bearer dies. what a cruel thing.

unfortunely, the gods were not aware of this beforehand, hence venti being the ginny pig and experiencing it first. sometimes he wished he could just die so life would be less painful, but he'd have to go to that wretched place. celestia.

good thing venti didn't have all his powers taken away. he can still teleport with the wind. he teleported to wangshuu inn to look for xiao. looking around, he could not see the adeptus so he went up to the higher balcony. there he was. he decided he should break it to him.

" xiao. i'm about to tell you something, you must believe me, " venti says.

" hmm, play me a tune first, " xiao replies.

" with pleasure. " venti pulls out his lyre and plays an upbeat melody. the tune could light up the room in seconds if there were more people around. like the last time, xiao was in awe of his playing skills. just what made venti so skilled?

" okay, here goes nothing. so seeing as the fatui harbingers are in liyue, they are most likely going to take morax's gnosis. when that happens, you will lose all memories of him. but can't you get them back? no. morax would have to die for that. in summary, i'd like to save morax before he goes away from all of our memories, " venti says in one breath. maybe two.

" how can i know to trust you? " xiao asks.

" because it happened to me. i was once a gnosis bearer. the anemo archon, " venti says. " you once knew me as a dear friend. "

" so that's why...! but wait, i thought the anemo archon was presumed dead and no one knew what he looked like, " xiao ponders on it when he feels a familiar pain in his head.

" xiao, don't dwell on it! it will only hurt! " venti shouts, concerned.

" i want to remember and to understand these strange feelings within me. why you seem to make my karmic debt less excruciating than before and why you seem like a close companion i could stay wth forever, " xiao confesses, his face red.

" let's just say that we were like that before, " venti smiles. " now let's head to liyue, we've an archon to save. "