Okay, so I'm going to have some more plot, the sex is, like, a third of the chapter at most, so keep that in mind. A lot of setup for Sumeru here too.

I expected to wake up in the abyss where Paimon and I would see each other; that emptiness that stretched far and wide, reaching beyond my sight. However, my dream started with something I didn't expect: The eternal oasis. The beautiful sight was at a standstill. Everything was frozen in time as I looked around.

"Wait, what am I doing here?" I said to myself, before realizing I could speak. I saw the familiar young girl I had met not too long ago, and my heart ached, knowing what she was doing.

"Jeht!" I ran over the lake, frozen in time, to under that tree. The tree that had her late mother, and father, and I ran over to her. She was still there, under that tree, and despite her tears, she was forcing herself to leave, to go out.

'How many times has she visited this?' I looked down at the tree and saw countless tick marks against the tree, the ones that stayed there. I saw a letter, addressed to Aether

"Hello, mother, father… it's been quite a while since I've seen you two. I had to deal with some trouble on the way, but I'm back, probably not for the last time." I heard a small chuckle as she spoke through her letter.

"But… I'm in a worse state than when you left. I've got my name, I've reclaimed the name you gave me, Mother, but… I've got no one who will protect me. I can't trust anyone. One of the few that I did turned on me, and I had to kill her. I killed all of them… And I don't know who I can trust anymore."

I swallowed that sorrow, as I read onward.

"The only person I can trust… is Aether. I can't believe I thought of him as someone who betrayed me…" I saw tears on the letter, with her letting them out as she wrote that.

"I… was a lot more friendly with him than I wanted. I wanted him to do more for me. Him healing my wounds… I wished he was next to me, for me to lay down on him. I wanted him to hold my hand, and I never wanted to let him go, after all, I had lost, and I didn't want to lose him again." I heard her chuckle sadly, with her voice, as I read onward.

"I sound like a lovestruck girl, don't I? I thought I was only interested in girls too…" My expression turned grim, I looked at the letter. "I want to be free, to not worry about this, but he's the only person who has stuck with me for all this time. He tended to my wounds, my injuries, and my pain. But… no matter what, I have put him through so much trouble with me. He's had to get his hands dirty and has witnessed my demons. Who would love someone capable of murdering anyone who doubted them?"

My breaths became heavy then, and so did my throat. I almost felt my tears coming down as I read.

"But… I guess you fell in love with my dad at one point, despite all of the demons he carried. You fell in love with Mom too. I hope Aether can too, but I still don't know what I want. If you're reading this, Aether, I hope you can trust me. I've got so much baggage, so if you don't want to be with me that way… it's fine. I miss you, but I need to move forward too. When we meet… as I said, let's meet under a better sun. Maybe then, you'll have an answer for me, and I'll have one for you."

I looked up and saw the eternal oasis unraveling slowly by slowly, eternity running out. However, after the Oasis came apart, I wasn't surrounded by the abyss. It was… something different. The tree, Irimsul, illuminated the sky with its glow, as it stood before me, as I marveled at it.

"This is… Irminsul? What am I doing here?" I looked around and saw someone else there, waiting for me all this time.

"Hello, Aether. It's been only a few days since you left. But already, so much has changed."

"Nahida?" I looked at her. No longer was she on my shoulders she was taller than me. Her face looked taller. She looked like she had aged quite a bit in a short amount of time.

"You… look so much older," I said matter-of-factly.

"Yes, I look the part of the goddess, don't I?" Her hair was long and wavy, reaching her waist. Her eyes still reminded me of her, and her ears stuck out as if she was all hearing. Her smile looked strong, and she looked… truly the part of a goddess. Her clothes were also more fitting for her. At that moment, in front of that tree, she looked stunning.

"But, the path of a goddess requires me to stand out. And Lisa, I'm sure you know her, had given me some inspiration for how to dress."

'Oh. So that explains a lot.'

"I remember she talked about her days studying with me. She came up to Sumeru, despite being pregnant. Kept teasing me as well, about her keeping quiet about me making her pregnant…" I looked off, surprisingly honest with her. I guess I couldn't lie to her, and even if I did, Irimsul would just show the truth.

"You've gotten quite a few women. Nabiya was quite right about you."

"Yeah, I know she was. By then… I already had impregnated my wives. 4 of which live inside my home."

"And you'd like me to be one of those women who has your child?"

"I mean…" I didn't know what to say.

"Well, I'm not sure I fully understand love yet; What it means to love someone. But… if I'd have to say anything, it's that if I am a goddess of wisdom, I will learn about love. I've seen your journey and how much you love the women here, some more intimately than others." She showed a vision of Yelan, walking naked with me against her to the Jade Chamber.

"I… honestly, I don't know if she loves me fully. Or if she wanted that thrill of love."

"Well, she looks concerned over you. If she was just a sexual partner over you, I don't know if she'd have that concern over you and be monitoring you to the degree she is at this moment. Despite her aching muscles, she ran, barely clothed, to the jade chamber, with you en toe."

"I mean… yeah, that's true." I scratched my head.

"You don't have to doubt their love for you. I may not understand your love for me, but… there's something they have, when talking about you, or looking at you, that I don't see with anyone else: whether that be trust, respect, or understanding. I'm not sure. But they see a lot in you… as do I."

I blushed a little at that straightforward confession, but I knew it wasn't entirely her being romantic.

"However, when you awaken, you will come to see Ganyu. Presumably, she will also ask you to lie next to her after you've fully awakened and recovered. She will have a lot to say to you after you kissed Yanfei."

"Right. I almost forgot about that." Nahida looked surprised at me, as I had forgotten something so important.

"Sorry, it's just… a lot of stuff has happened to me over the past few days."

"Understandably. But you will have to talk about your situation. She knows it already, but she needs to hear from you. As well as your desires."

"Yeah… okay. I will."

"Then, I guess our time here is over." She spoke and waved to me.

"Hopefully, by the time you come here, I can also give you an answer." I heard her say, as the tree blinded my eyes with its glow.

I woke up, in… Ganyu's bed. I knew that because, one, I saw her head poking from beside me, and two, the door was open a creak, allowing me to see the room I was in.

"Room 4…" I chuckled. "I just realized…" I sat up and saw both Yelan and Ganyu next to me. Yelan in particular, I saw her nearly naked, and her body red with overexertion. Her womb tattoo was inscribed on her, and concern was etched into Yelan and Ganyu's faces.

"Aether, are you okay?" Ganyu immediately went towards me to help me sit up, but I raised my hand in front of her so I could get up.

"How long was I out?"

"You were asleep for probably 5 hours." She looked tired, as she had stayed up for that long.

I put my hand over my face. "That's probably the most I've slept since coming here."

"You should rest… You've let me rest here for several days too, so-"

"Yelan. Can you rest, away from here? I need to talk to Ganyu about some things."

"Sure…" She yawned as she stood, and then Ganyu started to get conscious of her nudity.. "I'll wake up after the deal with Ningguang. You're lucky that I carried my clothes with me, I couldn't imagine people finding me naked down there…" She walked out and closed her door.

She closed the door, leaving me to look at an awkward Ganyu twiddling her thumbs.

"Aether, um, thank you-"

"You did a lot to save the people then. But do you know what one of the people told me? They said if you weren't half Qilin, she would have expected a lot of worse things to happen."

I sighed. "Now, I'm not going to lecture you about how you should have rested, and put them in danger… I know that feeling. Quite frankly, you did all that you could." I looked down at my legs. "I just wished I could be there with you. I wished I could have seen the situation earlier…"

I felt like crying. For the first time since I left Mondstadt, I wanted to cry. That weight, I was still carrying till then.

"I couldn't have gotten this place back if I didn't leave the other people I cared about behind, and if I didn't heed that prophecy. I had to do what I could in Sumeru for a month and leave them all behind when the month finished." I cried slowly, trying to keep it silent. But my tears kept coming out, and my pain kept releasing.

"It's been hard… hasn't it?"

Ganyu stood up and hugged me she rubbed her hand against my head. It felt… comforting, but it also made me cry even more.

"I just care about you all… I love you all. And I don't want to abandon you guys. You mean so much to me, all of you."

"Sshhh… it's alright." She patted my head as I felt like unleashing all of the guilt I had with her. I didn't know how long I cried for her, but she released our embrace at the right time when my tears had fallen slower, and she looked into my eyes.

"I understand now, you care for us. At first, when Yelan had come here, with her red all over, I thought you had done bad things to her. But she explained to me how she pushed you too far, and it was her fault. She had been so caught up in the thrill of having children with you, that she didn't consider how exhausted you were. That's why she brought you to me."

Ganyu held my hand, and looked at me, surprisingly calm.

"Well, I want you to know…" I saw her face redden as she was more delicate with her holding my hand. "You're also very… important to me."

I moved my hand to her face, and while she blushed, she didn't tell me to stop.

"Can I kiss you, Ganyu?" Despite me doing this many times, I still asked her.

"Yes. You can." Her voice was soft, as was mine. She moved closer to me, and I met her halfway. It was, at first, awkward, with her being confused about how to kiss me, but within a few seconds, she was enjoying it, and moving along with me as I kissed her. She pressed her body into my body, her chest against my chest, her stomach against my stomach. It was gentle but not lacking passion. She was comforted, as she had her first kiss with me.

She, surprisingly, was the first to separate, a thin strand of saliva extended between us as we separated. She was blushing, but she didn't look unhappy or want to hide. She was… here, with me.

"That was… incredible, for our kiss." She smiled a bit, as her blush went down. I looked at her, at peace, yet wanting more.

"Do… you wish to have a child with me?" She asked honestly, and I responded with a nod.

"Well… okay. I want you to be gentle. Okay?" She whispered as she undressed, item by item. From her accessories to her sleeves, she took everything off, minus her Bell. "I might say later, to be rougher, depending on how I feel." She spoke softly, as I undressed as well.

She positioned herself over me as I lied back at the back of the bed, and she lined up to look me in the eyes.

"Can you hold me when I take you fully?" She looked at my cock under her, just about to touch her insides.

"Of course, Ganyu."

"Thank you, Aether." I went in one swoop as she lowered herself fully into me.

"Huh… I thought this would have been painful." She whispered, loud enough for me to hear her.

"It won't be." I dove onto her as she lay on the bed now. I was on top of her, kissing and gently moving inside her.

"Ahh… I feel so happy." She spoke softly, not in pain, just happy, as I moved inside her.

I smelled her as I kissed her body and felt around her boobs. She didn't mind, as she gave an appreciable moan as I continued.

"You smell… like flowers, Ganyu," I said, stopping my kiss down her body and her neck. "You smell really nice."

She blushed, but she didn't seem upset. "Thank you, Aether." I started moving, and she moaned again as I felt her body up and kissed her while moving inside her.

"Aether… You can touch my horns." She spoke as I kissed her neck and even left a hickey on her neck. "Aether… can you touch my horns?" She started whining, making me look at her.

"I want to do that later. Is that okay?"

She groaned, but she let me do what I was doing.

"Aether… please. Please touch my horns…"

Immediately, I turned her body around, flipping her chest to face the floor. She seemed shocked, but I didn't do anything yet.

"Can I be rougher, then?" I asked her, to which she nodded as she faced me.

"You can be a little rougher." I grabbed onto her horns as she spoke. Then, I started pushing myself into her slightly faster, pulling her horns to me as I thrust into her.

"AHH… I love that, Aether!" She moaned loudly for the first time before covering her mouth, embarrassed.

"I love you, Ganyu," I said as I grabbed her horns, preparing to cum inside her.

"I'll want you to be one of my wives. Would you like that?" I said, nearly edging into cumming inside her.

"Yes. I'd like that very much." Her face was crimson, but she had the happiest smile I'd seen on her.

"I'm cumming!" I yelled as she came with me filling her womb. I still held onto her horns, even after she had stopped cumming, and even after I stopped.

"Um… Aether." I started rubbing her horns, which made her tighten herself around my cock, and she instinctually held onto me.

"I want to sleep next to you, Ganyu. After we both have our time together, I want to sleep with you. Do you want that?" I spoke, my dick still firmly inside her, and her body not wanting to release my grip on her.

"Yes, but… I want to face you first."

I turned around, and I saw… milk, leaving her breasts. Milk spilled on her body in small bursts, dripping from her breasts to her stomach.

"When Qilin, like my parent, get pregnant, they start lactating immediately, in preparation for children, because the gestation period for a Qilin is very short. If it takes nine months for most women to have children, it would take only 3 for a Qilin, and for me, a half Qilin, it would be six months. As soon as you filled me, my body reacted as if I was at the end of my first trimester."

I smiled, despite myself.

"I'd be happy to have a child with you. I said that, Ganyu."

"But… I also want you to take me away from here. Ningguang mentioned you had a home where I could raise this child with your other wives, in peace."

'She has eyes and ears everywhere…'

"Well, yeah, I do. Do you want to go there?" I looked into her eyes sincerely, with a sense of protection washing over me.

"Can you take me there? I want to meet with your other wives."

"... okay." I took the teapot out of my bag, and it floated in front of me. Ganyu, as I removed myself from her, started putting on her clothes and accessories. I handed her some of her accessories as I changed back into my clothes.

"Thank you, Aether." She wore the bell around her neck and held my hand.

"Let's go to our home, Ganyu." We stepped into the pot together and felt transported inside it.

And that's the wrap, here. Sorry, but this is already getting to be quite long, and 3k words for a chapter seems like enough for this time. Anyways, thank you for reading.