#sukaeya

Relationships: Kaeya/Sucrose Tags: Fluff, Comfort, Dating, Allusions to Anxiety, Kaeya needs a hug Words: 3,807 Summary: Sucrose has never seen Sir Kaeya so exhausted.

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Experiment #3

Starshroom glowed for 26 minutes out of soil. Did not restore Lumenstone Adjuvant energy under lab’s lighting conditions. Energy restored only in low light? How low? Or only at low altitude? Oxygen amounts?

Sucrose warily turns from her notes to the carton taking up half her bench. Buried in rocks and soil, the faint blue glow of the starshrooms seeps beneath the lid. She reaches her hand to it and lifts it slightly, quickly counting the number of shrooms left.

Ten. She hopes she won’t have to call in the Honorary Knight to retrieve some more samples for her, with the Chasm in Liyue being so far away. And that’s not even mentioning the potential changes she could make to the ecosystem harvesting so many of them at once. Perhaps it would be a better idea to run the experiments at The Chasm itself.

She sighs to herself.

“Sucrose.”

Sucrose jumps out of her skin, quickly turning in her chair to follow the voice. When she finds white-blonde hair beneath her door frame, she sighs with relief. “Mr Albedo,” she breathes, “Is something the matter?”

He gives her a small, apologetic smile. “Nothing in particular. It’s only that, ah…” He clears his throat. “Captain Kaeya is waiting outside.”