[ need help, are the words that are on his lips, but they die there unspoken, because what Tighnari says next is trueβ if the shoe were on the other foot, if it were the Forest Watcher losing himself in alcohol in an attempt to leave the world behind, if he had any reason at all to imagine the other man needed his help, there would be nothing in all of Teyvat that would stop him from finding some way to do exactly that. To fix everything, so that Tighnari didn't have to hurt anymore.
Because Tighnari is not someone who should ever have to feel that kind of pain.
As wrong as the other is about Kaveh, it's a feeling the architect can understand. And so he turns his head, presses it silently into the other's shoulder, tries to bite back the tears leeching into his voice, the clawed hand of agony tearing at his throat. ]
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[ need help, are the words that are on his lips, but they die there unspoken, because what Tighnari says next is trueβ if the shoe were on the other foot, if it were the Forest Watcher losing himself in alcohol in an attempt to leave the world behind, if he had any reason at all to imagine the other man needed his help, there would be nothing in all of Teyvat that would stop him from finding some way to do exactly that. To fix everything, so that Tighnari didn't have to hurt anymore.
Because Tighnari is not someone who should ever have to feel that kind of pain.
As wrong as the other is about Kaveh, it's a feeling the architect can understand. And so he turns his head, presses it silently into the other's shoulder, tries to bite back the tears leeching into his voice, the clawed hand of agony tearing at his throat. ]
I... what do you want me to do?