[ Kaeya Alberich is a reckless man. Camellia knows it - knows it from the very first moment she meets him. There's something about the way he carries himself, even in the way he speaks that one day, he's going to meet a messy end. And... it's a waste, she thinks. It's a waste for anyone, of course, but she thinks it's particularly sorrowful when it comes to Kaeya. He's bright and quick and sharp, and there's a particular sort of charm to him that she finds herself drawn to. It doesn't amount to much – though Camellia would very much like it to.
It's not a surprise, then, when he goes missing. Perhaps for the others it is, but for Camellia who's been half-expecting this since the day she met him, it just seems inevitable. She doesn't care much for the details, just that he was expected to check in with the Knights from Wangshu Inn... and hadn't. It isn't like him to just vanish when he's expected to make himself known, so Camellia finds some excuse to be heading to Liyue anyway and volunteers to be the one to go and find him. After all, the Knights are always so busy... it's the least she can do to help.
She finds him dumped on the side of the road like so much trash. He's alive, if badly injured – the obvious victim of an ambush, but she won't have any way of knowing by what exactly until he wakes up. She could take him to Wangshu Inn, send word back to the Knights, and let them handle things from here.
She decides not to. Kaeya's injured. The last thing he needs is to be hurried back to Mondstadt. And it's fortunate for the both of them that she has a claim on an empty house in Qingce Village – a favour owed to her by a friend after some quest or other. The peace and quiet and time away from other people.... won't it do him some good?
So she sends word back to the Knights. She tells them she's had no luck yet, but she'll continue the search.
And she takes Kaeya to Qingce Village.
The house is habitable, at least. A little neglected, but it's nothing a quick clean won't fix. And it gives her the privacy to start working on the worst of his wounds. She's in the process of cleaning a nasty looking gash on his forearm when she feels him stir and gives him her warmest smile. ]
Well, good morning sleepyhead. I was starting to think you'd never wake up.
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It's not a surprise, then, when he goes missing. Perhaps for the others it is, but for Camellia who's been half-expecting this since the day she met him, it just seems inevitable. She doesn't care much for the details, just that he was expected to check in with the Knights from Wangshu Inn... and hadn't. It isn't like him to just vanish when he's expected to make himself known, so Camellia finds some excuse to be heading to Liyue anyway and volunteers to be the one to go and find him. After all, the Knights are always so busy... it's the least she can do to help.
She finds him dumped on the side of the road like so much trash. He's alive, if badly injured – the obvious victim of an ambush, but she won't have any way of knowing by what exactly until he wakes up. She could take him to Wangshu Inn, send word back to the Knights, and let them handle things from here.
She decides not to. Kaeya's injured. The last thing he needs is to be hurried back to Mondstadt. And it's fortunate for the both of them that she has a claim on an empty house in Qingce Village – a favour owed to her by a friend after some quest or other. The peace and quiet and time away from other people.... won't it do him some good?
So she sends word back to the Knights. She tells them she's had no luck yet, but she'll continue the search.
And she takes Kaeya to Qingce Village.
The house is habitable, at least. A little neglected, but it's nothing a quick clean won't fix. And it gives her the privacy to start working on the worst of his wounds. She's in the process of cleaning a nasty looking gash on his forearm when she feels him stir and gives him her warmest smile. ]
Well, good morning sleepyhead. I was starting to think you'd never wake up.