#celestibound

@celestibound​ asked: ❛ i haven’t laughed like this in a long time. ❜ -Lumine

he grins, sitting back against the headboard of his bed. he can’t stop smiling, his cheeks and lips hurting with the stretch. archons, how he’d missed her. missed his sister, his other half, so much. all those months of searching was worth it. even just for this moment. “let’s agree to never be parted for that long again, then,” he teases, reaching over to flick his sister’s nose gently. “then we won’t be so deprived.”

⤪ @celestibound​ ⊳ how can he say no ?? ⤨

--- Sitting upright within the nest of pillows and blankets, Guizhong wrapped her arms around Zhongli’s midsection. She’d cooed softly as her lips trailed tentatively . . . delicately, along his jawline in sweet kisses. “ Can you stay home today..? I want this day to be about you — spoiling with all the love you so deserve. ”

    ⊳ can be continued / reblogged

   Her presence alone was like a breath of fresh air,  but the sensation of those beautifully soft lips against his skin ...  Any plans to leave their nest were easily cast to the wayside in favour of granting what she desired.  Strong arms slid about her smaller form with ease,  any space between them long gone as head tilted just enough to let lips capture hers in a surprisingly deep kiss.  He could hardly help himself,  it seemed.

@celestibound​  :  delicate and soft fingers hover atop his eyelids as a gentle coo sounded from behind. " Guess who. "  ——  Guizhong  .       »  unprompted  /  always  accepting  .

𝐀  𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇  𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒  𝐇𝐈𝐒  𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐓  ,      eyes  blinking  slowly  in  his  spot  beneath  the  golden  pearlroot  tree  .  doing  . . .  nothing  .  it  was  new  for  him  :  a  peculiar  thing  to  simply  sit  around  &  take  in  the  scenery  .  he  often  does  that  of  the  battlefields  he  forges  out  of  war  &  viscera  ,  but  never  something  so  mundane  as  this  .  it  was  . . .  awful  ——  exceedingly  boring  &  strenuous  on  his  mind  ,  but  a  certain  lord  of  dust  insisted  .  (  if  they  met  years  ago  ,  when  morax  was  still  as  wild  as  the  twisted  landscape  teeming  with  monstrosities  ,  he  would  not  have  spared  guizhong  a  second  glance  .  but  he  was  here  ,  now  :  changed  ,  albeit  slightly  ——  never  will  he  admit  it  was  a  significant  one  ——  &  following  the  advice  of  another  godly  being  who  will  eventually  crumble  into  ancient  memory  like  he  will  .  but  no  ,  morax  was  eternal  .  he  cannot  fall  before  his  appointed  time  ,  when  the  earth  beckons  him  back  home  to  become  one  with  the  soil  &  rock  .  )  he  looks  up  at  the  yellow  leaves  cascading  to  the  ground  ,  &  grabs  a  couple  of  them  to  hold  .

      something  obstructs  his  vision  &  morax’s  entire  body  stills  .  he  recognizes  the  soft  skin  ,  the  voice  filtering  through  behind  him  &  into  his  ears  .  (  a  song  that  made  his  heart  chase  after  its  sound  ,  no  matter  how  much  he  wills  it  not  to  .  he  often  wonders  how  those  hands  will  feel  in  his  own  ,  weapons  carved  from  stone  &  sharpened  into  blades  .  )  but  it  does  not  stop  him  from  always  being  on  his  guard  .  so  . . .  he  already  failed  at  relaxing  ,  huh  .      “   guizhong  ,   “      he  says  lowly  ——  the  ley  lines  thrumming  to  life  within  him  .  there  was  bite  in  his  delivery  of  her  name  ,  but  it  was  weak  :  her  presence  has  dulled  it  ,  &  he  cannot  determine  whether  it  was  for  the  best  or  not  .  he  looks  over  his  shoulder  at  the  god  ,  then  at  the  spot  besides  him  .  does  morax  wish  for  her  to  sit  beside  him  ?  (  yes  ,  his  soul  cries  out  .  he  ignores  the  warmth  pooling  at  his  cheeks  as  just  his  body  temperature  .  )

“ Xiao? Are you here? ” Lumine called out whilst taking a peek along the empty balcony of the inn. She’d only just recently come back to Liyue . . . even then, having been swarmed with commissions the moment she’d step foot on land. That little part of her wishing to catch the Adeptus during his time off now that she was free, hoping to not of been disturbing him.

Xiao perked up when he heard a familiar voice. 

The adeptus was sitting on top of the inn, things have been quietly lately in Liyue allowing him time off. Getting up from his spot he gazed over the roof and his eyes widened seeing who it was. Not caring what it looked like Xiao appeared behind Lumine in a flash, arms around her middle pulling the traveler close.