Sweet soft hum is resonating above Mount Aozang, the homes of Clouds and the Abode above the jades. Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands of years? The weight on her shoulder and her suffering she holds all this time deep within her vein and yet.
Her elegant and soft smiles, her gentle disposition as qilin and her burden of the heart those humans have. If one can talk about determination, it's her. Her Plenilune eyes gazing at the noon sky, lying at the grass, drawing the shapes of the clouds in her head.
"Oh, good afternoon, Aether, come rest with me here" We lied in the grass and looked at the sky. "did you know," I look at her, and she tilts over her head to me. "If you lie on the grass, you can feel the heartbeat of the world." Even if that's true, the only heartbeat I can feel right now is mine. Her gorgeous sleepy face boiled my face and blurred my mind.
She may not feel a thing, but I, "Very calm, isn't it? It's so nice to de-stress. You know, I feel like I must have spoken more after meeting you than I have in the last ten years put together. If I keep going like this..." The breeze is so calming; napping in the grass doesn't sound bad. I start to feel sleepy. Maybe, I can take a nap. Only for a -.
"Just a sec, Mr. traveller" her gentle voice echoed, "How was your day, Traveler?" her preserved smile, "You want me to call you by your name?" her unbending determination "You are one unique person... Aether." Her lovely grace, "Are you awake yet, Aether?"
Her long hair blocks the light from the sun as she sat beside me. The grasses are... too soft. Wait a minute; I pulled my head from her lap as fast as possible. How long have I slept, "1 hour, 24 minutes, and 54 seconds" Hours spent in a blitz of a dream? How about her job? "Don't worry, Ms. Ningguang gives me a day off today." She pulled my hands away from hers. Why do I hold her hands?
I kneeled in a hurry and asked her forgiveness for my insolent behaviour. "No, it's okay. Don't need to get worked up over things like that." We giggled. We talked and talked for hours more, but it feels so short, like none of the resin is filled yet. Say, I ask her that all this time, millenniums have passed and millenniums more will come, has she ever fell in love.
She stopped then she slowly laughs awkwardly while playing her hand on her hair. "Hehe, I don't think so, it's too bothersome. I tried not to get too close to mortal, they wilted so fast, and it will only hurt the both of us. Hehehe". I never think about that, soon all of us will wilt, and she will be alone once more, again and again, she bears all the sadness inside of her. I slowly raise my hands to her head and brush her head between the horns. She has worked so hard.
If I get any closer to her, I will only hurt her. She is surprised; once again, I say the unimaginable to her. "What about you? There surely be someone that catches your glimpse." Please don't do this to me, Ganyu. "Oh, I am sorry, I don't mean to; I am sorry if I hurt your feelings. It's okay if you don't want to say who."
Is it okay if I told her, no? A simple 'no one' will end this, just say nobody, and I can finish this, the goblet is too full it's overflowing, no I must not hurt her. I cannot be selfish, that's right, I still have a sister to find, there is no way I fell in love with a Millenniums old Adeptus, this feeling is nothing but pseudo, I do (not) believe that. The goblet has shattered; it couldn't contain the overflowing water anymore.
"I-I love you, Ganyu." I closed my eyes and clenched my fist. "I am sorry, I am so sorry for my selfish answer, I shouldn't have-" All of a sudden, my body feels warm, "you don't need to be sorry." The smell of qingxin in her breath and lips, Why do you hurt yourself like this? I don't get it.
"You don't have to be concern about me. I am thrilled to hear it from you." Her eyes reflect me and my worries. "I am truly happy from the deepest of my heart; even right now my heart is beating so fast. The truth is, you are the first to make me feels like this." I want to push her away, "Please take responsibility." She smiled at me. I embrace her and all her words. The suffering is yet to come but for now, let's just enjoy this moment.
"She who doesn't know her feelings fell in love after thousands of years. Yet the young man doesn't understand that even if he doesn't declare his feeling to the girl, she would still be in love with the boy, and both will only suffer more. But still, how dare they defiled my home in the middle of noon!" *Sigh* "I'll let them get away today, Youngsters like them are best left off alone."