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“Duck this commission,” Rosaria whispers.
“Okay.” Kaeya stares down at the giant…frost…creature. “We need a pyro user.”
“Can’t you just ask your brother?”
“You have a brother?” Kazuha looks up, but evidently his voice carries on the wind.
The creature looks up to their hiding place, positioned on a rock behind the Seelie they led over. The Seelie that’s currently keeping all five of them warm.
Paimon sticks her head out from Kazuha’s robes, where she’s clenching them around her cheeks. “Did he hear you?”
“He can’t possibly come up here,” Rosaria says.
A second later, the creature jumps onto them, Kaeya’s shield narrowly preventing broken bones.
The team scatters, sprinting to the Waypoint nearby, the creature giving chase.
“Go, go, go!” Kaeya throws ice in it’s eyes, waiting for Kazuha, who’s protecting Paimon, and Rosaria, who’s not fit to fight this creature, to teleport out.
He looks back, trying to distract the beast, feeling a hand close around his own.
“Come on!”
Lumine drags him, the creature throwing an ice chunk at them.
She slams down her hand on her map, Kaeya shielding them both, his back over her.
“Look at those two.”
“In public!”
Kaeya looks down, seeing Lumine’s yellow hair, and the cobblestones of Mondstadt. “Silly, you didn’t even cover your head.”
Slowly, she looks up, as he releases her waist, stepping a respectable distance back.
Kaeya shoots a grin at the two nearby Fatui agents, who for once slink away.
Kazuha and Rosaria are panting nearby, Kazuha still ready to fight, Rosaria with her hands on her knees.
“I need a break,” she says, walking off.
Kazuha offers a small laugh. “Can we…take a breather tonight?”
Kaeya just nods, relieved that he doesn’t have a block of ice in his back, and that it didn’t manage to teleport with them.
“Of course.”