MomoAmazing1991
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#1 - #wriothesley
#1 - #genshinimpact
Irina Rimeheart came to Fontaine for a holiday, not a life sentence. A bookstore clerk with a quiet talent for keeping things in order, she's framed by Childe for a crime she didn't commit and sentenced to fifteen years in the Fortress of Meropide, no appeal, no way out but time.
Wriothesley, Duke of the Fortress, runs Meropide with the same quiet, absolute control he brings to everything else, careful, composed, and entirely unwilling to let anyone close enough to matter. He's heard every inmate's excuse before. Irina doesn't offer him one, not out of defiance, but because she's innocent, and it never occurs to her that the truth needs dressing up. She's sharp, direct, an open book in every way that keeps pulling his attention back to her, whether he means for it to or not.
What starts as reluctant proximity slowly, quietly, becomes something else entirely, filing, paperwork, the odd shared pot of tea, until neither of them can quite pretend it's nothing anymore. But the Fortress has its own secrets, and the deeper Irina looks into her own case, the clearer it becomes that Meropide's troubles and her frame-up were never as separate as they first appeared.
A slow burn. A prison. A conspiracy that refuses to stay buried. And a Warden who's spent his whole life keeping people out, slowly, unwillingly, learning what it costs to let someone in.
{I do not own the characters of Genshin Impact. Irina is my own original character.}