Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
fasten your heartbelts
by rinareinstein
in the skies, turbulence isn’t just outside the plane.captain ruan mei is composed, brilliant, and frustratingly unreadable—earning admiration from everyone but one: herta, the clever and sharp-tongued flight attendant who thinks ruan mei is the coldest woman to ever wear a uniform.every flight, herta rolls her eyes when ruan mei speaks in her usual calm, clipped tone, especially when she makes oddly specific requests. but behind herta’s annoyance is a reluctant fascination... and behind ruan mei’s icy exterior, something much softer starts to stir.what begins as awkward layovers and stiff interactions at 35,000 feet slowly shifts—until one of them starts looking forward to turbulence.
