fool's gold

"So it is done.""Indeed it is." Beidou replies, setting the piece down on the bedside table. Ningguang reaches up to trace the scars on the Harbinger's face, almost wistful in her musings. "It is everything that you could have wished for?"Tenderly - pathetically, Beidou chides herself - she smoothes the Archon's hair back from her face and presses her lips to her forehead, then to the apple of each cheek, and finally to her lips. She hums contentedly, kneading her fingers through the tresses of flaxen hair."I wish for nothing, sweetness, but if I did, it would be everything and more."There is a pause, and a shadow passes very briefly over the round panel of light that falls across Ningguang's bed. "You played your part well." And Beidou is reminded that she is mortal. --All that glitters...