The rest of Albedo's check-up went without a hitch.
Minus the distant scream of pain you heard.
You had looked towards the door, curious, but at the same time, afraid. Sorely afraid. The scream didn't sound human, and it was unnervingly quiet after.
Even Qiqi paused her sorting and looked up. Her normally blank face was scrunched up in concern, and it almost looked wrong to see such an emotion on the child. Klee clung to one of Albedo's legs, and Albedo looked bored. It felt like he knew who, or what the scream belonged to. You glanced at Albedo, raising an eyebrow.
"Do... do you know what that was?" you whispered, afraid of what could possibly happen should that thing hear you. What if it was a Lawachurl that broke into the estate?! Or an Abyss Mage! You wouldn't be able to help at all if the Abyss Mage wasn't Pyro!
Panic began to settle into your gut, everything suddenly too much. It was too bright. There were too many items around, seeming to touch you. It was too loud, every noise screeching in your ears.
"Probably just Kaeya having another nightmare."
You paused, staring at Albedo in shock. "Nightmare?"
Albedo glanced at you, surprise plastered on his face for once. "You didn't know? He regularly has nightmares, especially when it rains. It gets worse whenever there's a thunderstorm." Albedo flipped through the various pages on his clipboard. "He's never told me why, but he's come to me before requesting sleeping drafts whenever it was forecasted to be rainy."
Albedo turned away and looked at the papers scattered across a board, a demonic looking figure taking up most of the pages. "I'm not a professional doctor, but I'd say he has a form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or better known as PTSD. From what I'm not sure, but I've noticed he flinches, as little as it is, from the sight of flames. He hides it well, but when you know him for a long time, he becomes somewhat easy to read."
Kaeya hated fire like you did? But what exactly happened to him? From what it sounded like, it seemed that Kaeya's been having these nightmares for years.
You felt sorry for the male. Because something very big must've happened for him to have gained such pain. You'd ask him about it, but it felt wrong to even try.
"I pity him..." you whispered, rubbing your arms. It would probably be best to simply be friends---nothing more, nothing less---with Kaeya.
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Rain pelted his armor, attempting to chill him to the bone as he stood there in the rain, overlooking the Kamisato estate. Thunder rumbled off in the distance, but the sound did nothing to him. Not today.
He had nothing to fear with this armor on. He learned he could fly through the air with ease, his stamina almost endless whenever he ran through the mountainside. It was how he got up here on this cliff after all. He looked up to the weeping sky and smiled, the rain caressing his armored face.
Unfortunately his hair wasn't spared from the torrent of water, but he didn't entirely care. The events of his bout of drunkenness were far into the past, perhaps by a week.
You were cold with him that whole time. You treated him with respect and politeness, offering a few smiles throughout the day, of course. But it wasn't what he wanted. No, he wanted you to beam at him, hug him, kiss him and tell him you loved him. He wanted to hold your hand, do the things that naïve and innocent lovers would do. Like a cheesy romance novel, the kind teenage girls would swoon and sigh over. Specifically with vampires and werewolves because that was apparently a thing.
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King of Lies
Fiksi Penggemar(BOOK 1) Kaeya was a male of ice. He might be cold in many ways, but he was never cold with you. He was warm, friendly, and even a gentleman. As you travel across Teyvat, Kaeya's ice-cold heart begins to melt. And it has nothing to do with the Hydro...
