[homophonic] catchall for shu

[dendroculi]

SHU

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[roseoftexas]

[ i guess they can have a round of hugs or. like. shu brand hug. he'll just twist his hand up to pat the back of her head. ]

[dendroculi]

[


lol he'll feel a bump on the back of her head.]

[roseoftexas]

[ .....




binch. ]

Why do you have a bump on the back of your head?

[dendroculi]

[she sniffles a little]

...I hit my head a few times...

[roseoftexas]

Is that why you didn't remember anything when you came back?

[ can he like. heal that? can he heal that. or do you want some injuries as a treat? ]

[dendroculi]

[he can heal that if he tries to, yeah.]

...I think it may have been partly that. But it was also... [her brow furrows.] My thoughts... my mindset... even my body... all of them were the way they were when I was younger.

[roseoftexas]

[




blinks. ]

Younger? You looked— [ uhh ]— you looked older than you do now.

[dendroculi]

...I didn't always look like this. Before I lost my memories - that was what I looked like.

[



as far as she's aware, anyway. thanks for nothing, irminsul.]

[roseoftexas]

[ irminsul like “any time”

huh. ]

When was that?

[ ……… come to think of it, he only knows that to kaveh, nahida is or is like a god. and that she’s the god of sumeru. he’s never probed beyond that. ]

— Or. Pause that for a moment. What actually happened to you guys, while you were somewhere else? You all came back injured and different ages, and carrying those weird stones.

[dendroculi]

[well, she starts to answer him, but he says pause. so she does not.

instead, she refocuses.]

...it's... it was a lot. We were in Teyvat. Or... it seemed like we were. [she digs through her things to pull out the anemo vision she came back with, then holds it out to him.] This is a Vision, but... do you see the frame it's encased in? It's what Visions look like when they come from Liyue. The ones in Sumeru look different.

[roseoftexas]

[ he squints at it. ]

Do the symbols mean something different too?

[ he taps the little wings on the vision. ] And… Liyue, that’s where Shenhe’s from, isn’t it?

[dendroculi]

Yes... they correspond to each of this seven elements in Teyvat. This one is Anemo - wind.

[...she nods.]

Mm. It's where Shenhe is from.

[roseoftexas]

[ he also nods. he wants to ask about the element — he’s pretty sure it’s not one he’s heard before, and not with regards to nahida and her godhood. but.

well. ]

And?

[dendroculi]

...we were all separated from each other at first. I don't know what happened to the other three... I know we all started off in a cave, though.

[...]

There was a monster inside of it. For me... there were three other people with me. Two children and a young woman. ...they begged me to save them, but I - I wasn't able to.

[roseoftexas]

[ he’s just listening for the moment. he doesn’t really say anything at the last part — but he does glance away for a moment.

hm. ]

[dendroculi]

[yeah. not great.]

...I did manage to kill the monster, though.

[but even that wasn't enoug to save the other people she was stuck in there with.]

After that... there was a portal. I went through it, and it took me to the Jade Chamber... which is a building that floats in the skies over Liyue. That was where I came across Kaveh and Setsu, but they looked like small children... I didn't recognize them, either. And I don't think they recognized me.

[roseoftexas]

[ me also looking at another recount of this in another pc like oodfa doofa. ]

Did you figure out why they were small? They were small when you came back here too, and didn't recognise any of us.

[dendroculi]

...I think... we were all as we were at a certain age. The age must have had some significance, but... I don't know what just yet.

[roseoftexas]

Where you were older than you are now.

[dendroculi]

...I've been telling people, I didn't always look like this!

[roseoftexas]

[ pfft. ]

Okay, but it’s a pretty big difference. People are gonna be surprised.

[dendroculi]

...yes, well...

[roseoftexas]

[ go on nahida. yes, well? ]

[dendroculi]

Is what I looked like really the most important part of this...?

[roseoftexas]

No, but it was surprising. I think people recognised Kaveh, and Setsu when they got close enough to really look at them — I’m not sure about Matsui, though.

But I don’t anyone could tell it was you until you turned back.