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[outofoffice]

[ . . . ]


Well, it would be very silly to walk out on a house full of people I love, wouldn't it?

[at_heart]

[ Doesn't immediately respond. Then, ]

It's not so much about who's still here, is it?

[outofoffice]

[ Blowing out a long sigh ]

You noticed, huh?

[at_heart]

I think the fact that he wasn't the right Zhongli sucked enough, and him disappearing on you is pretty much just the shit cherry on a shit sundae.

[ he noticed All the things ]

[outofoffice]

[ Chuckling a little, though it's more wry than mirthful ]

Well, it's hardly the old man's fault, even if he is usually to blame.

[ #notbiased ]

It's a good thing though, I think. That he's returned to Teyvat.

[at_heart]

[ Scoff. Scoff. ]

Who said anything about fault? We're not keeping score here.

Him going back to Teyvat while you're stuck here just sucks.

[outofoffice]

Mm . . .

[ Selfishly -- it does suck. But he can't bring himself to whine about it, despite whining about the slightest inconvenience most of the time. ]

Our story has gone like that from the very beginning. Meetings and partings.

Prior to our meeting in Tokyo-F, I hadn't seen him in centuries.

[at_heart]

You do know that makes it worse, right?

[outofoffice]

It does?

[at_heart]

Finding someone like that, only to lose him again...

Yeah. It makes it worse.

[ Personal experience whomst. ]

[outofoffice]

. . . Well.

I'm sure we'll meet again, as we always do -- somewhere, in some world.

[at_heart]

[ Immediately he thinks, But you might not. They might be able to stay here after everything's been taken care of, and they might be able to go home, too; but they might also go to sleep one night and find themselves somewhere else entirely, and it wouldn't be that difficult for Venti to get trapped somewhere without Zhongli. Especially without the one he knew in Tokyo-F.

...But that's not really the point, is it?

So he's going to get an arm around Venti's narrow shoulders and tug him into a side hug. ]

You're probably right. [ Soft. ] But so what? That doesn't mean you can't be upset right now.

[ Doesn't mean you can't ask for or don't deserve comfort right now. ]

[outofoffice]

[ Venti is aware of all these possibilities, of course. Acutely aware.

But to worry about that constantly . . . it would certainly eat into any happiness he tries to eke out in this place. ]

Honestly, you . . . you're incorrigible.

[ . . . ]


I guess I am pretty upset.

[at_heart]

[ Holding on, then. ]

Anything I can do?

Apart from sit here with you, I mean.

[ Because he's committed to that much. He'll spend the rest of the night on the roof if he has to. ]

[outofoffice]

[ Slumping against him with a long sigh ]

This is good. There's not much else to be done for it, I'm afraid.

[at_heart]

[ ...Squeeze. ]

Could whip up something in the kitchen. Or — test out animal transformation. I haven't tried bird yet.

[ You know, if you wanted company flying away from all of this for a while. ]