𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 [G.Impact x Fem! Reader]

𝐗𝐈𝐈; 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐬𝐡

Finding a bird inside the house was a particular experience, but finding the bird you had somehow tame was even more. Especially if the so called bird should have been in Mondstadt.

"What the hell are you doing here?" you asked more to yourself than to the crow.

The animal made no action other than hopping on the floor. Not that you expected any response.

You just looked at it in deep thought. How did he found you? Did he by any chance followed your elemental traces? You had trained him to follow some of them, after all...

But if Huginn, the crow you had trained years before with your former superior, was here it could only mean one thing.

You unrolled the paper from his leg.

'The snow wants to know where it will fall.'

You must be kidding me--

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No matter how many times you tried, you couldn't stop thinking that note for the whole day.

You stopped listening to the tale told by the storyteller. How could you try to spend a normal day? One of the few people who knew your secret had sent you their schemes.

You had requested him to let you know if they ever tried to contact you during your absence, but you were too naive to believe that they wouldn't plan such a thing.

And now you didn't know how to handle the situation.

You glanced quickly at the stage, noticing that the storyteller had stopped talking.

Sighing, you turned away.

"Oh I'm sorry" you apologised to the person you had bumped into.

Your eyes met amber ones. your breath caught. Why did you have that feeling every time you saw him?

"Do not worry". His gaze fell on you. "Is everything alright?"

You said yes. "You're Zhongli if I'm not mistaken"

The man nodded. "Precisely" his gaze seemed to be able to read through your soul. " You're a traveller from mondstadt if Irecall correctly"

Your eyes widened. "how do you..." you asked with a whisper.

"Aether told me". Zhongli smiled in a way that --to your horror-- you couldn't decipher. "And besides... there are many things I am aware of"

"I understand'. That man was arcane: foreign yet familiar. You were certain that nobody else in Teyvat would be able to elicit that feeling of dread and attraction. Even if you were to live twice and gain the wisdom of the gods, he would continue to be a mystery.

"After all, I know your deepest secret".

"Pardon?" You heard your voice quiver.

There was a brief silence."I was asking your thoughts about the tale"

"Oh... I'm afraid I wasn't paying much attention..."

"I see... in that case I shall explain it?"

You nodded.

"Then I ought to begin..."

In days of yore, a deity arrived in this world. Said god managed to introduce mankind into this land in a short time. As humanity became prosperous and new deities arose, the god created four shining shades, in order to preserve peace. Each shade represented the principles of the universe: Time, Space, Life and Death.

Then came another divinity and war waged on the land. But with the passing of millennia, a shade developed their own personality and thus lost the purity of godhood. During the war, the shade of life was defeated by a deity of peerless powers. As a result of the Defeat, the shade of life lost all her temples and acolytes, making her become the shell of who she used to be.

And one night when the call of oblivion was growing louder, she met a mortal in a desolate land.

There they sealed a contract, a pledge of immortality.

A pledge of eternal remembrance.

As soon as Zhongli finished his story, he looked at you expectantly.

"I..." --the storyteller mentioned an adeptus earlier, didn't he?-- "How come I've never heard this legend before?" you asked, ignoring the drop of cold sweat that was forming.

"Everything is a victim of the oblivion, even the gods