The Distance To Your Home

As he lost himself in his thoughts, the pain abruptly coiled tight in his chest; it was like an impossibly heavy, leaden weight had manifested itself there. Suddenly weak, Zhongli found he had to sit down on the stone edge of the low wall next to the flowers. The feeling was so horrid it made his nose burn and his eyes prickle with tears. Resolutely, Zhongli squashed it beneath his conscious thoughts as he had done to so many of his foes with meteors falling from the sky, and stood- albeit a little shakily, having been unprepared for the initial onslaught of pain, and made his way uneasily the rest of the way to the pharmacy.