Genshin Impact (Video Game)
by the_untamed_poet25
Finally, Wriothesley said, “It’s loud, today.”
He meant the sky. He meant the sorrow. He meant you.
Neuvillette tilted his head. “It is.”
Wriothesley wanted to ask what had made it so, but something in Neuvillette’s posture told him not to. Not yet. Instead, he tried something else. Something foolish. Something tender.
“…Do you think you could teach me how to speak to it?”
Neuvillette turned to look at him fully now. Wriothesley met his eyes without flinching.
“You wish to learn to speak to the rain?”
Wriothesley nodded, sheepish. “You always seem to know what it’s saying. I figure… maybe I should try to listen too.”
Neuvillette regarded him in that impossible way of his, like he was not just observing, but witnessing. As if Wriothesley’s soul had poked out from beneath his skin and Neuvillette had caught it, cradled it, questioned it. It made his stomach twist, made his fingers clench, made something fragile rattle in his throat.Or, two men learn to speak a language made of silence and rain.
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Character Study · Comfort · Emotional Hurt/Comfort · Emotional Intimacy· +26 more