p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"Xiao/span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I put the clothes I had on before, Aether told me he washed them for me and Lumine patched the hole that was in my shirt, my jeans are still tore up but I have others I can wear. I take a seat on Aether's bed which smells like fresh clean linen and look at the egg that he brought me. I nearly want to throw up just looking at it. Not that it looks gross, it's just, I don't do well with human food. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Every bite I eat, I want to throw up with each bite. It feels like acid in my body, human food tasted different after what happened. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"It's their flesh we all crave now. Eating that is like eating a five star meal. At first it was weird, but it was the only thing that settled my stomach when I was starving. I thought he was bluffing when he cursed us with craving human flesh and blood. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"This egg his sister fried up, is making my stomach do knots and making me feel sick. I take small bites, hoping that helps, but if anything it makes it sting even more going down. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I can hear them laughing and talking on the other side of the door. Aether had told me I was out for 3 days, but he changed my bandages the day before I woke up. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""We'll meet again" /spanit's here I've had enough of the egg. I push the plate aside and run to the garbage that is sitting by his desk and throw it all up. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I feel the acid burn in my throat and I can feel the pressure of my stomach relief as it all comes out. I sit in front of my door and bring my legs to my chest and hold them, as if I'm hugging myself. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I lay my head head on top of my knees and focus on my breathing. As I peak up from my arms, he's sitting on the bed looking at me. Smiling his mischievous smile like always. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""I'm not in the mood, go away" he chuckles and gets down on his knees./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""He looked prettier than ever wouldn't you say Xiao" I grit my teeth and hide my face in my arms. I don't want to talk or deal with him right now. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""Xiao" /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""Go away." I say sternly. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""Xiao look at me"/span I peek up and see a person covered in blood, with it dripping from his mouth, his head, his arms his chest. I gasp and sit fully up. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""It hurts, why...why...are you like this..." /spansomeone else touches my arm, tears in their eyes. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""Get away from me" /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""DON'T TOUCH ME!" /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""Xiao...why didn't you save me" /spannow he's taken it to far.../p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""SHUT UP!" I scream and slam my fist against the door. "STOP IT, JUST STOP IT!" /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Hey! are you okay" /spanI hear a gentle knock at the door. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I shake my head and get up, opening the door and see Aether standing there. His long hair up in a braid and dressed in a plain black shirt with black pants and has a white shirt sleeve cardigan on. I swallow hard and then let out a sigh, he looks so damn beautiful standing in the sunlight. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""I wanted to thank you, for your hospitality, but I need to go." I say pick up his trash can, thinking I need to throw it out completely for throwing up in it. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Oh, are you feeling well enough to travel?" /spanI look away from him as he asks that. "Also why do you have my trash can?/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""I owe you a new one, sorry if I caused any trouble" I take his trash and before I can say anything else, I walk out of their house and into the small town they brought me too. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Windmills, and stairs leading up to a church. There's also small shops and the one of the main headquarters of the school. I'm sure Jean is busy with all the new recruits coming into the new school soon. I place Aether's trash can next to some pubs trash and walk away. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"The others and Master are probably wondering where I am. The new term will be starting here soon and I need to get back before the new students arrives. I remember Master telling me, he would start here and then join the rest today. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"As I come to the bridge, I look around and see I'm too out in the open to call forth my wings. It's also morning time, so everyone is walking around getting ready for the work day or whatever they do here in the small town. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"It wouldn't be uncommon though if I used the wind and guided myself back to the school. As I start my run, I use gust of wind and run as fast as I can back to the school. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"As I near the Liyue Harbor, I slow my run down and spot the campus on the hilltop we've chosen for it and over looks Liyue and the harbor itself. Great east spot for a view of everything. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"The School is wide and and big and long and in the to the side of the school is our longest spire, for astronomy class. Glass windows line perfectly with the build and it's scaling. The roof tops are all hip-and-gable and has two large pillars in the front. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"The rooftops are a minty green, the boarders around the windows are also the same color. While the building itself is a light off white color. These colors were chosen to match the colors of the buildings in Liyue. As you approach the front entrance, there are two large pillars out front, the top having the same color as the roof and the pillar itself being an off white just like the school. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Leading up to the school, are small housing buildings for students. Each house has two bedrooms, one kitchen and one bath for its inhabitants. Not everyone has a vision and only a select few get in, some drop out and some want nothing to do with us at all. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"As I'm coming up in the entry, I'm stopped suddenly by a strong hand. Long brown hair with yellow strands in front. He wears a very formal fitting suite to his body and nearly anyone would drool over it with how it shows his muscles off./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Where hell have you been?" /spanKapisas asks me sternly. I forcefully take my hand back/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""None of your business" I turn to walk into the school, until he grabs my shoulders and turn me to him./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""You have any idea how much we've been searching for you? Three days Xiao, you've been gone for three days! What the hell happened the night when you and Bo were fighting? Did /spanhe span style="font-style: italic;"transform like you did?" /spanHe's starting to sound like an actual leader and is getting more and more stern the more he talks./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""We're your beads on?!" /spanAt this point I make a fist and almost punch him, but he turns me towards him and holds both shoulders. span style="font-style: italic;""Did. Your. Beads. Come. Off?" /spanHis voice almost sends chills through my spine, with the how serious he sounds. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""No...they didn't." I tell him with confidence. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I shove out of his grip. "If you have to know I was knocked unconscious, lost some blood and was in Mondstat getting patched up by losers alright." Before he can say more I'm walking off as fast as I can. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Did I really mean to call them losers or was I just getting annoyed by what Kapisis was telling me. It's not like Bo was trying to fight me, if anything he was just trying to calm me down. I can't even remember what brought span style="font-style: italic;"him /spanout. The moon wasn't even full and I don't remember much of the fight. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I feel a hand on my shoulder right before I enter the school and can feel my anger reaching a boiling point, but calm down immediately when I see brown Amber eyes looking at me. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Master Zhongli stands before me, with a stern look on his face. As always he's dressed in the best formal wear one could ever obtain. White dress shirt, black dress pants with shoes to match as well as a black vest. His tie perfect aligned and tied, the color starts out as brown and slowly fades into yellow. Him and Kapisis could honestly pass as father and soon with how they match in color scheme. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I look down at the ground feel shame for realizing I have been missing for three days. Didn't say anything all I knew was, I had to get away from everyone and everything. He's been becoming so strong lately, why should I be around others, when he's trying his best to claw his way out. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""Master, forgive me for my leave of absence, I have no excuses for my actions" He leads me into the school, a huge grand stair case is seen while walking in. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"We take a right and he's di to his office that has the most gorgeous view of the ocean and the harbor part of Liyue. His desk sits right in the middle, of his office and has a nice big black comfy desk chair, that matches the dark mahogany wood perfectly/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"On both sides of him he has book shelves stacked with information on elements, history, teaching, running a school, fighting techniques and other books I've seen. Though he's not the most avid reader, he will read when he is stumped on something or needing something to help with a solution he can't find./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"In front of his desk sits two comfy chairs and by the doors sits a couch on one side and little reading nook on the other. A chair, a table and a lamp. Sometimes students will come into his office and read, or study or talk to him about their classes./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Master is a very caring teacher and care taker of the school. He tired his best to accommodate everyone that comes to him about a problem or needing extra help with something. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I owe Master Zhongli my life as well as the rest of us Yaksha. He took us in and told us that we could help protect the students at the school and venture out with them when needed. He knows our story, our curse our burdens and he tired to redeem us with us helping humanity by slaying beasts that roam this world. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"He knows how we feel about humans though. Some days I don't even go out and help them or I turn a blind eye. There are some tasks humans can do on their own. I'll fight the monsters, but if there is a group of students, then I'll watch from afar and make sure they don't get hurt./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"He pulls a seat out for me and gestures for me to sit. As I take my seat, he goes and pours himself a cup of tea and sits down at his desk. He looks like a commander in chief whenever he sits down and is about to share some battle plan or strategy. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""I'm glad to see your okay Xiao." /spanHe says in a calm voice. His voice can be a lot like Aether but it's a calm before the storm, while Aether's is a calm that can be before and after a storm. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"He takes a sip of his tea quietly and clears his throat. span style="font-style: italic;""Can you tell me what happened? I already know your beads were on, your wearing them as we speak. Did something make you mad?" /spanAt least Zhongli knows me well enough that I wouldn't take them off, or someone that someone would even attempt to take them off./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""The two that cared for you, did they say anything about the beads around you neck?" /spanCome to think of it, Aether nor Lumine asked about them, I just remember waking up and seeing his eyes for the first time in so long. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I didn't even notice my necklace, until I started moving and getting up. Aether and Lumine we're both busy packing for something. I never really talked to them and Aether I think said they were both getting ready to leave./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""No they didn't say anything about it, they just patched me up and that's it. I was out for three days and I'm sorry I made everyone worry. I don't remember what happened or why or even if o transformed." He simply nods and goes back to drinking his tea. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"We both hear a knock on his door and it swings open, revealing Master Jean. When she arrives, it mainly means the new students are coming. Zhongli gets up from his seat, swings his suits jacket over and puts it on. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""You should come Xiao, two of them will be going with you to Wangshu inn with the others that have been blessed with Anemo." /spanHe says placing his hand firmly on my shoulder. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I nod and get up and walk with him and Master Jean. As they talk about the new students, I wonder about all the work I'll have to catch up on. I'm not a teacher not an advisor. I'm more of a resident assistant really. Zhongli assigned all of us Yaksha to be the resident assistant since there are five elements and five of us. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"As the two talk and we near the front entrance I stop dead in my tracks. My eyes go wide as I eye two blonds looking and pointing around the front entrance. One turns towards us and I feel my heart skip a beat as he smiles at all three of us./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Headmaster Zhongli, may I please introduce Aether and Lumine." /spanMaster Jean says with a proud smile on her face. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"They both turn fully around to face both of and give a bow./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Good to see you again Xiao, guess we're both going to the same school huh?" /spanAether says in his happy voice. I look away ignoring him. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Aether and Lumine, let me welcome you to the school for the gifted. I look foreword to working with the both of you." /spanMaster Zhongli tells them both. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""Oh Xiao, this will be fun won't it" /spanshut it!/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I put the clothes I had on before, Aether told me he washed them for me and Lumine patched the hole that was in my shirt, my jeans are still tore up but I have others I can wear. I take a seat on Aether's bed which smells like fresh clean linen and look at the egg that he brought me. I nearly want to throw up just looking at it. Not that it looks gross, it's just, I don't do well with human food. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Every bite I eat, I want to throw up with each bite. It feels like acid in my body, human food tasted different after what happened. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"It's their flesh we all crave now. Eating that is like eating a five star meal. At first it was weird, but it was the only thing that settled my stomach when I was starving. I thought he was bluffing when he cursed us with craving human flesh and blood. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"This egg his sister fried up, is making my stomach do knots and making me feel sick. I take small bites, hoping that helps, but if anything it makes it sting even more going down. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I can hear them laughing and talking on the other side of the door. Aether had told me I was out for 3 days, but he changed my bandages the day before I woke up. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""We'll meet again" /spanit's here I've had enough of the egg. I push the plate aside and run to the garbage that is sitting by his desk and throw it all up. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I feel the acid burn in my throat and I can feel the pressure of my stomach relief as it all comes out. I sit in front of my door and bring my legs to my chest and hold them, as if I'm hugging myself. /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212; min-height: 20.5px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I lay my head head on top of my knees and focus on my breathing. As I peak up from my arms, he's sitting on the bed looking at me. Smiling his mischievous smile like always. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""I'm not in the mood, go away" he chuckles and gets down on his knees./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""He looked prettier than ever wouldn't you say Xiao" I grit my teeth and hide my face in my arms. I don't want to talk or deal with him right now. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""Xiao" /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""Go away." I say sternly. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""Xiao look at me"/span I peek up and see a person covered in blood, with it dripping from his mouth, his head, his arms his chest. I gasp and sit fully up. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""It hurts, why...why...are you like this..." /spansomeone else touches my arm, tears in their eyes. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""Get away from me" /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""DON'T TOUCH ME!" /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""Xiao...why didn't you save me" /spannow he's taken it to far.../p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""SHUT UP!" I scream and slam my fist against the door. "STOP IT, JUST STOP IT!" /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Hey! are you okay" /spanI hear a gentle knock at the door. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I shake my head and get up, opening the door and see Aether standing there. His long hair up in a braid and dressed in a plain black shirt with black pants and has a white shirt sleeve cardigan on. I swallow hard and then let out a sigh, he looks so damn beautiful standing in the sunlight. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""I wanted to thank you, for your hospitality, but I need to go." I say pick up his trash can, thinking I need to throw it out completely for throwing up in it. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Oh, are you feeling well enough to travel?" /spanI look away from him as he asks that. "Also why do you have my trash can?/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""I owe you a new one, sorry if I caused any trouble" I take his trash and before I can say anything else, I walk out of their house and into the small town they brought me too. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Windmills, and stairs leading up to a church. There's also small shops and the one of the main headquarters of the school. I'm sure Jean is busy with all the new recruits coming into the new school soon. I place Aether's trash can next to some pubs trash and walk away. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"The others and Master are probably wondering where I am. The new term will be starting here soon and I need to get back before the new students arrives. I remember Master telling me, he would start here and then join the rest today. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"As I come to the bridge, I look around and see I'm too out in the open to call forth my wings. It's also morning time, so everyone is walking around getting ready for the work day or whatever they do here in the small town. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"It wouldn't be uncommon though if I used the wind and guided myself back to the school. As I start my run, I use gust of wind and run as fast as I can back to the school. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"As I near the Liyue Harbor, I slow my run down and spot the campus on the hilltop we've chosen for it and over looks Liyue and the harbor itself. Great east spot for a view of everything. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"The School is wide and and big and long and in the to the side of the school is our longest spire, for astronomy class. Glass windows line perfectly with the build and it's scaling. The roof tops are all hip-and-gable and has two large pillars in the front. /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212; min-height: 20.5px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"The rooftops are a minty green, the boarders around the windows are also the same color. While the building itself is a light off white color. These colors were chosen to match the colors of the buildings in Liyue. As you approach the front entrance, there are two large pillars out front, the top having the same color as the roof and the pillar itself being an off white just like the school. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Leading up to the school, are small housing buildings for students. Each house has two bedrooms, one kitchen and one bath for its inhabitants. Not everyone has a vision and only a select few get in, some drop out and some want nothing to do with us at all. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"As I'm coming up in the entry, I'm stopped suddenly by a strong hand. Long brown hair with yellow strands in front. He wears a very formal fitting suite to his body and nearly anyone would drool over it with how it shows his muscles off./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Where hell have you been?" /spanKapisas asks me sternly. I forcefully take my hand back/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""None of your business" I turn to walk into the school, until he grabs my shoulders and turn me to him./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""You have any idea how much we've been searching for you? Three days Xiao, you've been gone for three days! What the hell happened the night when you and Bo were fighting? Did /spanhe span style="font-style: italic;"transform like you did?" /spanHe's starting to sound like an actual leader and is getting more and more stern the more he talks./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""We're your beads on?!" /spanAt this point I make a fist and almost punch him, but he turns me towards him and holds both shoulders. span style="font-style: italic;""Did. Your. Beads. Come. Off?" /spanHis voice almost sends chills through my spine, with the how serious he sounds. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""No...they didn't." I tell him with confidence. /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212; min-height: 20.5px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I shove out of his grip. "If you have to know I was knocked unconscious, lost some blood and was in Mondstat getting patched up by losers alright." Before he can say more I'm walking off as fast as I can. /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212; min-height: 20.5px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Did I really mean to call them losers or was I just getting annoyed by what Kapisis was telling me. It's not like Bo was trying to fight me, if anything he was just trying to calm me down. I can't even remember what brought span style="font-style: italic;"him /spanout. The moon wasn't even full and I don't remember much of the fight. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I feel a hand on my shoulder right before I enter the school and can feel my anger reaching a boiling point, but calm down immediately when I see brown Amber eyes looking at me. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Master Zhongli stands before me, with a stern look on his face. As always he's dressed in the best formal wear one could ever obtain. White dress shirt, black dress pants with shoes to match as well as a black vest. His tie perfect aligned and tied, the color starts out as brown and slowly fades into yellow. Him and Kapisis could honestly pass as father and soon with how they match in color scheme. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I look down at the ground feel shame for realizing I have been missing for three days. Didn't say anything all I knew was, I had to get away from everyone and everything. He's been becoming so strong lately, why should I be around others, when he's trying his best to claw his way out. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""Master, forgive me for my leave of absence, I have no excuses for my actions" He leads me into the school, a huge grand stair case is seen while walking in. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"We take a right and he's di to his office that has the most gorgeous view of the ocean and the harbor part of Liyue. His desk sits right in the middle, of his office and has a nice big black comfy desk chair, that matches the dark mahogany wood perfectly/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"On both sides of him he has book shelves stacked with information on elements, history, teaching, running a school, fighting techniques and other books I've seen. Though he's not the most avid reader, he will read when he is stumped on something or needing something to help with a solution he can't find./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"In front of his desk sits two comfy chairs and by the doors sits a couch on one side and little reading nook on the other. A chair, a table and a lamp. Sometimes students will come into his office and read, or study or talk to him about their classes./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"Master is a very caring teacher and care taker of the school. He tired his best to accommodate everyone that comes to him about a problem or needing extra help with something. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I owe Master Zhongli my life as well as the rest of us Yaksha. He took us in and told us that we could help protect the students at the school and venture out with them when needed. He knows our story, our curse our burdens and he tired to redeem us with us helping humanity by slaying beasts that roam this world. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"He knows how we feel about humans though. Some days I don't even go out and help them or I turn a blind eye. There are some tasks humans can do on their own. I'll fight the monsters, but if there is a group of students, then I'll watch from afar and make sure they don't get hurt./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"He pulls a seat out for me and gestures for me to sit. As I take my seat, he goes and pours himself a cup of tea and sits down at his desk. He looks like a commander in chief whenever he sits down and is about to share some battle plan or strategy. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""I'm glad to see your okay Xiao." /spanHe says in a calm voice. His voice can be a lot like Aether but it's a calm before the storm, while Aether's is a calm that can be before and after a storm. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"He takes a sip of his tea quietly and clears his throat. span style="font-style: italic;""Can you tell me what happened? I already know your beads were on, your wearing them as we speak. Did something make you mad?" /spanAt least Zhongli knows me well enough that I wouldn't take them off, or someone that someone would even attempt to take them off./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""The two that cared for you, did they say anything about the beads around you neck?" /spanCome to think of it, Aether nor Lumine asked about them, I just remember waking up and seeing his eyes for the first time in so long. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I didn't even notice my necklace, until I started moving and getting up. Aether and Lumine we're both busy packing for something. I never really talked to them and Aether I think said they were both getting ready to leave./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;""No they didn't say anything about it, they just patched me up and that's it. I was out for three days and I'm sorry I made everyone worry. I don't remember what happened or why or even if o transformed." He simply nods and goes back to drinking his tea. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"We both hear a knock on his door and it swings open, revealing Master Jean. When she arrives, it mainly means the new students are coming. Zhongli gets up from his seat, swings his suits jacket over and puts it on. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""You should come Xiao, two of them will be going with you to Wangshu inn with the others that have been blessed with Anemo." /spanHe says placing his hand firmly on my shoulder. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"I nod and get up and walk with him and Master Jean. As they talk about the new students, I wonder about all the work I'll have to catch up on. I'm not a teacher not an advisor. I'm more of a resident assistant really. Zhongli assigned all of us Yaksha to be the resident assistant since there are five elements and five of us. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"As the two talk and we near the front entrance I stop dead in my tracks. My eyes go wide as I eye two blonds looking and pointing around the front entrance. One turns towards us and I feel my heart skip a beat as he smiles at all three of us./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Headmaster Zhongli, may I please introduce Aether and Lumine." /spanMaster Jean says with a proud smile on her face. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"They both turn fully around to face both of and give a bow./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Good to see you again Xiao, guess we're both going to the same school huh?" /spanAether says in his happy voice. I look away ignoring him. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-style: italic;""Aether and Lumine, let me welcome you to the school for the gifted. I look foreword to working with the both of you." /spanMaster Zhongli tells them both. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: #121212;"span style="font-family: Georgia-BoldItalic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;""Oh Xiao, this will be fun won't it" /spanshut it!/p