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Lumine considers running again. Zapolyarny is a maze; she calculates her odds of escaping are at least as high as her odds of getting caught. She collects herself and prepares to sprint.
But then a cool hand catches her forearm. It’s not a particularly painful grip—she might even call it gentle if not for the evident strength behind it—but it stops her short nonetheless. Lumine winces and looks up into the face of—
“Childe?” she hisses.
Lumine's infiltration of Zapolyarny Palace goes sideways when she runs into a familiar figure.
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“Oh, gods,” the woman says, sounding a bit horrified. She says a bad word under her breath. “Uh, look, don’t cry, kid.”
“I’m not a kid!” Prune snarls.
The woman says another bad word. “Bartatoes, I’m so bad with children,” she mutters. Then, to Prune: “Look, have you had dinner yet?”
Prune meets a very strange hunter and is offered some unsolicited advice.
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everyone gone is still singing the same song by leify
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
23 May 2026
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It is strange, how Sir Frederica seems both entirely changed yet somehow no different than when Eula last saw her. Her hair, which is still up in a tight bun, is now almost entirely grey. The crow’s feet around her eyes have deepened, as have the severe lines around her mouth, but the set of her jaw is exactly as Eula remembers. Her eyes are still devastatingly blue.
Sir Frederica takes a long drag of her cigarette, the ember glowing in the dim tavern light. “I am retired, Sir Eula,” she says, her voice low but clear, “as you may or may not have heard.”
10 years after the end of the world, Eula sets out to find an old ally who does not want to be found.
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It surprises Jean every time, how much noise there is in the wilderness at night. Every rustle of the leaves makes her jumpy until she tunes her senses to the motion of the wind and begins to anticipate the sound. Some small animal scampers outside the cave, pauses, and then darts away, its footsteps muffled on the loam. Far away, the lonesome cry of an owl echoes through the woods.
It is into this great susurrus that Eula speaks. Her voice is so quiet that Jean almost mistakes it for another murmur of the forest before she makes out the words.
“I could kill you right now,” Eula says.
On an excursion into the wilderness, Jean and Eula find themselves confronting their worst impulses.
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Jean weighs her response carefully, sizing up the Sister. Despite all the intelligence she's gathered, she can’t know for certain how well this woman will take to being outed after nearly a decade of obscurity. “I must beg your pardon,” she says finally, enough apology in her tone to hopefully assuage any immediate homicidal impulses. “I had not been entirely honest with Sister Barbara. I am glad to make your acquaintance—but I have in actual fact come here seeking someone they used to call the Executioner.”
Sister Rosaria does not move, but the chapel suddenly feels very, very cold.
With the Knights shorthanded and in need of outside help, Jean attempts to convince a former vigilante to come out of retirement.
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“Why?” Kaeya asks. It’s a silly question, and he must know it, because after a moment he snorts and looks away. “Never mind, forget I asked. ‘For Mondstadt, as always,’ right?”
Jean smiles at him. She hardly needs to remind him that their House is dying; they only have two necromancers left, and neither she nor Barbara is likely to see their 30th birthday. But if Jean can ascend to Lyctorhood, can become a Hand of the King Undying, with all the power and renewal that entails—
“Right,” she says, and pats him gently on the knee.
On their first night in the House of God, Jean and her cavalier pause to take stock of their peers, their surroundings, and the trials before them.
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when you say that love is anticlimactic by leify
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
15 Jan 2026
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JEAN: He… He did say you two had a fight.
A beat of silence.
JEAN: No, that’s ridiculous. Like, I know you two fight all the time, but you would never… You’ve never… I mean, it must have been an accident, right?
JEAN: This is all just one big misunderstanding, I know it. Would you please just call me back? I know we can sort this out. Please.
In the year following Diluc’s departure, Jean and Kaeya leave a series of voicemails in his inbox.
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“You know he’s a pretty smart guy,” Mary says. This is the most Rhys has ever said to her, and she’s curious how far she can push. “He doesn’t need a babysitter.”
She knows she’s hit a nerve when Rhys barks a harsh laugh. “A babysitter? What about a commanding officer?”
As they wait for news of Jack, gone AWOL in Agarum, Rhys and Mary have a short conversation about trust, friendship, and duty.
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The boy points at a photograph of Jean and her two roommates: a rare one where Rosaria isn’t scowling and Kaeya actually looks happy. “Lupical?” he asks.
Jean returns to her apartment to find an unidentified child waiting for her, and ends up learning much more about her roommate than she'd anticipated.
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long is the road that leads me home by leify for dreamylink
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
21 Jun 2025
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Dainsleif feels his hackles rise. “I’m quite sure I can draw myself a bath.”
“Paimon’s on it!” the fairy chirps, swooping into the house. “Don’t worry, Dain—we got this.”
Lumine pauses at the threshold, looking thoughtfully back at him. Whatever she sees in his scowl makes the corner of her mouth twitch up. “Just sit there and look pretty, yeah?” she says, and disappears.
After their missing person investigation in Vimara Village, Dainsleif is convinced to spend the night in Lumine’s teapot.
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Diluc’s eyes still burn, these days. Not with his childhood exuberance, nor with the terrifying heat of that one night, but with an intensity that Kaeya can only liken to campfire coals buried in the ash.
Except when he looks at Kaeya. When he looks at Kaeya, he just looks sad.
Four older siblings through the eyes of four younger siblings.
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She tips the lid open and is greeted by a ballerina, slowly turning to the sound of silvery notes and a familiar song. Next to her, Dainsleif shoves his hands into his pockets. “Thought you might like it,” he says, staring fixedly at her left ear. “It’s—”
“—Tchaikovsky’s Pas de Deux, from The Nutcracker,” she finishes for him, unable to keep the smile from her face.
Dainsleif gives Lumine a music box.
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Jean glances up at Kaeya, to her right, and thinks that it is nice to be here with him.
And then her brain catches up with her and she wonders if she means it is pleasant, which it is, or perhaps lovely, which it also is, or wonderful, which seems rather too exuberant a word but somehow fits anyway. And then she gives up on finding the right word—because the fact of the matter is that it is all of those things, simultaneously, and yet none of them fit right in the blank space that she has come to silently associate with Kaeya’s presence in her life, the one that stretches out wordlessly like a gap in a game of mad libs and that she has never quite managed to fill with nice unambiguous words like “friend” or “best friend” or “colleague.”
Jean attempts to define her relationship with Kaeya and comes to an unsurprising realization.
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set aside the highlight reel by fromthedeskof (leify)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
11 Apr 2025
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“I’m your older brother,” he insists. “It’s my job to keep you safe.”
“We keep each other safe,” she says, still halfway across the room. A cupboard door opens and closes. The whisper of a jar lid twisting open. “We always have. This won’t be any different.”
In the aftermath of the trial that exposed them as Fatui, Lyney has a crisis and Lynette makes tea.
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“Falling in love with him is a bad idea,” Kaeya says.
“I’m not in love with him,” Rosaria says. She realizes too late that this too is a confession. She ought to have asked who he meant; she’s shown her hand too early.
He shakes his head at her. “I wouldn’t get too close, if I were you. He burns everything he touches.”
Rosaria is not in love with Diluc. That doesn’t stop Kaeya from warning her off.
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love song for my best friend: a kaejean drabble collection by fromthedeskof (leify)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
05 Apr 2025
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She wonders what he would do if she leaned in and pressed her lips to his. Would he laugh it off? Would he inhale lightly like he does when something takes him by surprise? Would he freeze up, or push her away?
(Sometimes, when she’s feeling particularly brave, she lets herself hope that he would kiss her back.)
Kaeya and Jean in every universe.
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“I wouldn’t worry too much about Diona,” Kaeya said. “There are worse ways for a child to live, Jean.”
Jean glanced past him to the bar, where Diona stood hunched over her cocktail shaker. “But there must be better ways, too.”
When Jean takes notice of how Diona has been living, her quest to confront years-old neglect requires her to reckon with her own childhood—and the childhoods of those around her.
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- Part 7 of jarch 2025
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“How fast did they say you'd have to go so that the sun would never set?”
“Really fast,” Barbara says. “Like, a thousand miles an hour. You’d basically have to run as fast as the earth is spinning.”
Jean glances at the speedometer, which reads 50 mph. And then at the sun, just kissing the horizon on its inexorable course through the sky, and then at her sister, silhouetted against the golden fields of wheat, a tiny smile playing on her lips.
“I think we can do it,” she says.
On the way home from the Winery, Jean and Barbara set themselves a challenge.
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- Part 6 of jarch 2025
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with your friendship and your name by leify for cele_ish, broskev
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
21 Mar 2025
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She puts her hand on the doorknob, eases the front door open, and finds not a robber or a miscreant but—
“Venti?”
The bard in question looks up from where he’s peering at what looks suspiciously like a puddle of vomit in the gutter. “Acting Grand Master Jean!” He drops into a flamboyant, if slightly wobbly, bow. “To what do I owe the pleasure?”
Jean finds her archon on the doorstep in the wee hours and offers him a shower and a place to stay the night.
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- Part 5 of jarch 2025
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“They’ll kill you,” the Traveler says.
He laughs, too shrill. “Isn’t that what you wanted?” he demands. “You win, okay? Run along, now, unless you want to watch them take me out back and shoot me like a dog.”
A myriad of emotions flickers across the Traveler’s face: disgust, horror, something that looks terribly like pity. Then—
“Hells,” she spits, darting forward. He flinches, anticipating her saber through his chest—but instead she grabs his limp hand and spins, dashing for the hangar and dragging him stumbling behind her.
When an altercation with the Traveler leaves the Wanderer’s identity as an android exposed, he expects to be left to bleed out before the Sages terminate him. He doesn’t expect her to help him escape. And he definitely doesn’t expect her to adopt him into her crew.