( closed ) how do we breathe, how do we climb

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WHO: Lumine + others
WHERE: Shadowlands, and then various places in Stygia
WHEN: December
WHAT: event shenanigans + notice board things
WARNINGS: blanket warning for event-related stuff, possible spoilers for the sumeru updates

[ ooc: closed starters will go here. if you want a custom starter, send me a PM or comment on my plotting post and let's hash things out. ]

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— aether

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[ it's one thing to find kokomi and childe in this world, knowing that her friends may one day meet the end of their existence on teyvat. it's another to find her twin brother, the one person she's been looking for since she woke up from her sleep all those months ago.

what happened to him? where has he been all this time? what was his relationship to dain, to khaenri'ah? what had become of his journey that changed him so much?

so many questions, and there are still more she wishes to ask of him; surely, he can no longer deny her if they're both here, right? but lumine keeps those questions to herself anyway, holding back and biting her tongue. is there still a point in pursuing an answer to those questions when they're together again? what does it still matter? after all, her journey's goal had always been back to his side, whatever the truth of the world reveals to her.

she squeezes his hand as they sit in front of the fireplace in her teapot-like home in the shadowlands, huddled together under a pile of blankets she managed to find. the traveler would prefer to sit themselves on the couch but seeing that she's just had a creature of lore tear through it, well ...

she hopes aether isn't too uncomfortable sitting on the floor. it's polished sandbearer wood ok. ]

Is it still too cold? I know how much you dislike it before ...

[ or has he gotten used to the cold already? in the abyss or elsewhere he's been to. ]