Shadow in the Ocean, Jade in the Sky (mirror the stars for me, will you, my love?)

“One day,” Ningguang had once said over their customary game of chess, in her tiny apartment in Liyue before both of them grew out of their lanky, teen phase, “I will build a Chamber in the sky, and its shadow will reach all seven nations.”“Mhmm,” Beidou had hummed, still in possession of two human eyes. Her brain churned to figure a way out of the two-way deadlock Ningguang’s black maze of stones had forced her into. “Yeah, you do that, I’ll just be sailing where the sun still shines.”Or:The Jade Chamber and its mistress as seen through the eye of one pirate captain.