#living.

And sometimes I think of Venti glowing when he gets excited, and fluttering around when pestering people, and the edges of his form getting wispy when he gets tired, playing music that you can hear from miles away, whispering secrets in ears and soothing thoughts to kids on rainy nights.

And Ei wandering around, enjoying dango-milk, tapping Miko on the shoulder and shocking her with electro slightly, and fawning over new items when she wanders the markets, and complaining to Miko about books while the other tries to explain plots to her.

And then Nahida wandering the rainforest and settling into the grass, playing with the Aranara near the forest ranger patrols, helping kids get fruit form trees and letting her toes dig into the ground like roots and sprouting flowers from her palms and hair, making little sprites out of morning dew and swinging on vines with the calmer fungi that let her pet their tops.

You’re alive because you’re stubborn and I love you.