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A coughed was heard on a dimly lit room. The candle has worn out and the only light source was from the cracked open from the curtain. The male was sick and his sibling was already sweating from the anxiousness because of his condition. The khaenriah has fallen by the hands of the seven empires’ view on their law and society. Khaenriah was said to be known for the equality be it rich or poor, women and men; the judgement is for everyone. That is why there are many people praised and has the highest migration on the country . On the other hand, the seven empires dislike their ideals and goals. All of the region wages a war against khaenriah and it result of bloody massacre, mostly the Inazuma empire was the first one to ambush them and then followed by the rest of the nation. Women and children from Khaenriah were taken dividing them to be contributed as a prize to the seven empires. Men was killed on sight. It was a killing spree as if they are going to eradicate all the generations of Khaenriah. The royalty of Khaenriah was massacred and the only two heirs of Viator-Viatrix of Khaenriah hide away. Aether was struck by the corrosion by the corrupted rifthound during their escape. The rifthounds was used to be the guard and harmless to people if it weren’t for the corruption disrupted throughout the region of Khaenriah. It has been 6 months since the fall of their empire and the said twin is in bed’s condition; slowly getting worse day by day and the only remedy is to find a priest or a nun in a mondstadt or go back to Khaenriah for the portal way to the Abyss Realm--For sure no one in Mondstadt will help them since everyone knows what Aether looks like and his existence.--- or any vision holder whose not a light and dark holder that can dissapear a corrosion. It was weird concept about the vision and its healing abilities in corrosion and curse. If the vision holder has the anemo, geo, hydro, electro, pyro, cryo, and dendro had a corrosion then their remedy and healer for their corrosion is a light and dark vision holder, vice versa. No one knows the mystery of the power of the God's eye the vision.
Lumine’s right hand was clutching the left hand of her twin as if her dear life will cease to exist if she let go her brother’s cold hand. Her other palm is holding the potion she just brought. A Regenerative one that is not enough to get rid of the corrosion but enough to subside the pain. It has been a week since he was bedridden and their mora is running out. ‘The potion is expensive.’ She thought remembering the she brought this to the pharmacy of Sumeru. They are charging higher price when it comes to the poor people who barely can’t afford medicine especially to the poor lady she encountered at that place. Disguising herself as a male cutting her long hair off into short one and the remaining long hair in front was braided in a back with the flowers and feathers acted as the knot—thankful that the flower’s size can be adjustable since Khaenriah has the most advance technology than snezhnnaya. It made her look like a teen boy who is in training because of the sword strap on her waist. However, cutting her hair was not enough for her to conceal that she is a lady. She used a navy blue thin layered handkerchief as a mask to cover half of her lower face. So when she fall in line to the pharmacy till she reach the pharmacist. The said worker assumed her to be poor and bid a higher for her. Lumine can see the distaste and disgust look on his face as he sells her the potion. As much as possible she was trying her best not to beat the shit out of this fucker because of the amount of unfair treatment he was showing it was definitely the contrast of her home was. She hurriedly goes back to the cheap hotel where they were temporarily hiding that was thankfully free for them because the owner of the house was from Khaenriah and they migrated to sumeru to expand their business. Unfortunately for the owner, their prosperous business in Khaenriah was destroyed during the war but his kindness towards the people remains unchanged. Something that Khaenriahns were proud of.
The seven regions of Teyvat were on the hunt of the crown prince ‘Aether’. Five months ago, there was a wage money on his head. They want him to marry one of the daughters of the nobles. Lumine and Aether fled to Natlan in hopes to avoid the gaze of the greed but it didn’t last long when someone recognize Aether and they kept moving around Teyvat and cannot get close to the borders to Khaenriah or to Sangonomiya, Inazuma---since they need a boat and visa to get there. After all, Enkanomiya has a portal to Abyss Realm inside that place---The bid was between 10-14 billion mora as the instruction that he to get captured alive or half dead as long he is breathing.
“Thankfully… the seven people didn’t know you exist.” Aether told her while staring at the board with his face drawn on the paper. Though he didn’t mean to imply it as an insult to her. It was rather a relief considering how the new society they live in sees women a fragile that cannot hold a weapon, an object, an incubator, and decoration to their eyes. The royalty blood of Khaenriah is more useful than any other noble blood. Why? They wield light and darkness that can destroy any vision. If they knew about Lumine’s existence every noble in Teyvat will cause more chaos and will revolt against each other just to get their hands on her. As much as they hate the people of Teyvat, they do not conduct themselves for vengeance because they won’t stoop so low as them. The girl was actually thankful when their parents imprison her the castle. Though not literally imprison her, she wasn’t allowed to go outside of their town or village because of the spies around them or without a guard around her while concealing her identity. One time she sneaks to explore their city along with her twin both of them were grounded—since he can’t resist her cuteness when she persuades him to see the town of their kingdom—for a month. Aether was the only known heir of Khaenriah whilst Lumine was the hidden heir in hopes to keeps her safe in the eyes of the seven greedy empires.
She was a surprise child to Khaenriah since it was very rare for the royal viator-viatrix family to have a female offspring. The last female offspring that secretly documented was 109 years ago. She was confused at first but now that she had grown into a fine young lady, she understands why her existence needs to be a secret. 109 years ago, the said princess of Khaenriah was always kidnapped and sexually abused by the other nation. However, the princess died from the suicide while pregnant as her mentality cannot take what she had been through—her body was found in Liyue. At that time, Khaenriah wanted to revolt against the Liyue but cannot do so as they have no evidence against them-the evidence was wiped out. It wasn’t the only Liyue empire was at fault at that time. The Inazuma and Fontaine too—the three nations also had a conflict to each other and compete against the princess—Concluding how they clean up the evidence about her kidnapping. The Fontaine empire was the suspect of the cleaning up the evidence. ‘Priding themselves as the country of justice. What a hypocrite.’ Lumine thought.
“How are you feeling brother?” She brushed away his bangs from his forehead before giving it a gentle kiss hoping to subside the corrosion. If only her light and dark vision can work on the same person who has the vision then Aether would be standing strong right now. She slowly let go of his cold hand grabbing the soup on his bedside table. “As always the potion is bitter but enough to make me fight for a half an hour.” he muttered as the sister guide him to sit up and give him the soup and a spoon.
“We need to leave to find a new place. Viro had gave me 19 locations of abandoned houses around Teyvat and umm...some mora.” She showed the map--the owner of the hotel gave to it her--infront of them her other hand was showing the mora before putting it back where she grab it. There was a teleportation icon around the map and only useful for Khaenriahn' people. They can’t interact it as people might caught them; the reason was that there are people walking and waiting around the town in disguise. A guard hovering, waiting someone to appear on the teleporter. So, they vow to use it if it’s only an emergency. If they get lost. They need to meet up where they had last seen each other.
The male twin nodded until he notices something different about his sister. He blinked and surprised to see her hair, “Did you cut your hair?”
“Yeah, a week ago.”
“It’s beautiful.” She smiled and get behind him. Instead of doing her brother the usual braid. She put a fish tail braid with a brown celtic wrap hair accessory complimenting his hair and his color scheme of his clothes. Enough not tangled his hair again and again.
"Where do you wanna set up next?" she asked while doing his braid.
"Let's go to Liyue."
The khaenriah castle was torn especially the hallway. Childe and his subordinates were collecting the unused technology of Khaenriah. The Snezhnaya's was the next nation to inspect the Khaenriah—because that is how the seven regions of Teyvat negotiate on how to take and split the riches of Khaenriah----He looked around the castle and inspect every room. He admires the architecture of the fallen empire. The color of blue and gold compliment each other as the mahogany flooring are very firm and sturdy. He reminded of the Abyss Realm where he fell in when he was a kid.
As he gets to the residence of the crown prince on the hallway. He was surprise to see another door in front of the crown prince’s room. He turns the knob and got in. His footsteps were heard at the silence room. The ginger haired male was expecting something bizarre but scoff when he realize it was just another normal room for a royalty. ‘Probably another room for the crown prince’ he thought before going to the main room of the missing crown prince. The knight from snezhnaya was about to leave but he turn back to right side of the wall.
A certain painting portrait happens to catches his lightless ocean eyes.