➳ 𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 - 𝐓𝐏𝐍 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 - 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫

⇢ ˗ˏˋ Five ࿐ྂ

I somehow wake up before Emma today and cook breakfast for everyone, even the old hag. After cooking and eating my share, I go outside to practice using my polearm. I hate to admit it, but I may be forgetting some things about using it. Taking a deep breath, I try to remember everything Cyno has taught me. How to strike, defend, and the most important thing of all; have a clear mind.

"If you really want to be able to have power over your opponent," He throws me onto the ground. "Don't let your emotions control you. They will blind you, you will be unable to think," He pushes the blunt end of the training spear to my chest. "And will also allow your enemies to take advantage of you."

"You can't always depend on your visions either. So you'll need to take this seriously."

What feels like an hour later, I finally finished training.. I take deep breaths and eventually go back inside the shelter with everyone looking at me weirdly.

"Uhh, what?" I question while getting a cup of water.

"Where were you?!" Ray exclaims.

"I was out... training."

"And you didn't bother to tell us?!" Don says, shaking my shoulders, making me dizzy.

"You guys were asleep. I didn't want to wake you up." I somehow manage out as he finally stops shaking me.

"Well you should at least leave a note!" Emma states loudly, hugging me. Stunned by her actions, I slightly push her away seeing tears start to form in her eyes.

"Wha-! Hey now don't cry! I'm sorry I didn't let you guys know first. Also, I am very sweaty right now so I don't think it's a good idea to hug me right now." I try to comfort her, keeping her away from my sweat-covered body.

"Ah, sorry about that," She quickly apologizes. "I was just worried about you."

"It's alright."

"Just next time tell us." Gilda sighs.

"Alright alright, I will. Now let me change please." They nod and I walk past them to go get my clothes.

Changing into my clothes from Teyvat, I head to the kitchen where the others are eating their breakfast with the old hag. I smile as I walk ahead to go into the archives. Walking through the many shelves of books, one of them caught my eye. I picked the book from off the shelf to see it was about some records. It seems interesting to say the least. Flipping through the first ten pages, I see rows upon rows of records of each child that had been in the orphanages. Their names and identity numbers stare up at me as I scan through the pages.

Eventually, I end up on the pages with Emma, Ray, and another kid they seemed to be close with. There were two photos of the three of them, one of when they were around two and one from when they were eleven. The other kid with them had white hair like the clouds and blue eyes, the color of the skies in Teyvat. He looks so curious about the world. I wonder what happened to him... My fingers hover over his picture, only leaving when the door suddenly opens.

"Y/n? What are you doing here?" Emma's voice rings out to me.

"Sorry, I was reading a book and lost track of time," I shut the book and held it behind my back. "Have you guys finished breakfast?"

"Yeah, we were just about to look around here." She answers me.

"Well, the fews books that I found here are about the same books you would see in an academic library." I point out, deciding to leave it at that.

"Oh alright, well would you like to join us?" I look at her confused.

"Join you where exactly?"

"Just looking around." She shrugs.