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【 Contact 】

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After finally escaping the Chasm and rescuing Xiao with some help from some friends, Aether found himself sitting in front of a camp fire late at night.
Paimon was sound asleep in the tent set up, softly snoring.

Aether carefully scanned the artefact he held in his hands. He'd found the sacred item during his time trapped in the Chasm.
Before he had the chance to further investigate the artefact back in the Chasm, the others had found Xiao.

Aether ended up hastily putting away the object in his inventory before hurriedly going off to check on Xiao - eventually forgetting about it up until now.

This particular item was a little sphere being made up of a mirror of sorts. Surrounding the sphere was two rings with strange symbols. The objective had numerous cracks all over, and it seemed five pieces of the artefact was missing.
The missing parts being extra rings that should be in the artefact.

After few minutes of looking over the item, Aether progressively grew bored and opted to finally get some rest.

The blonde puts the fire out before heading into the tent and putting the beside his sleeping bag before getting ready to rest for the night.

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A couple of hours into the night, the wind began to pick up and its strength increased gradually - shaking the leaves of bushes and trees.

The clouds covering the Moon were moved by a bit, letting a beam of Moonlight slip through and shine over the tent the Traveler was resting along with his emergency food.

The spherical artefact Aether had placed beside him on the ground to where he was sleeping, began to emit a dim light.

A large shadow of a figure appeared upon the walls of inside the tent and loomed over Aether and Paimon, white glowing eyes appearing at the head of the shadow.

The sudden new pair of eyes look over a sleeping Aether, followed by an echo of child-like laughter accompanied by multiple soft whispers that could not be deciphered.

Snapping his eyes open, Aether swiftly sat up as he breathes heavily - abruptly waking up in a cold sweat.
The blonde isn't exactly sure as to the reason why he had woken up, shaken out if nowhere.

He didn't have a nightmare in particular nor does he remember dreaming about anything. Yet, he did have strange flashes of imagery before he was rudely awakened.

Letting out a soft sigh, Aether looks over towards the artefact he put down beside him.

Upon closer inspection, the Traveler noticed that the cracks that once were on the artefact was gone.

Aether looks over at Paimon - who was still sound asleep, but snoring loudly this time.
The Traveler gets up and peeks outside of the tent; it was still dark out and a calm night - nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary.

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"What? So the cracks just suddenly disappeared the moment you woke up?" Queries Paimon as she focuses on the spherical artefact Aether had presented to her.

"That's right... I'm just as confused as you are." Aether states, having previously told Paimon about the mysterious object he found.

"Perhaps we should go over to Zhongli." Paimon suggests and Aether nods.

"Let's first have some breakfast before we head off." Says Aether.

Paimon's eyes sparkled with joy, immediately drooling at the thought of food. "Sounds like a plan!"

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