#🪽 — ANGEL OF THE CODEINE SCENE.

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angel of the codeine scene — [04] the traveller.

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"I feel sick, and I know that I'll lose, but it's not living, if it's not with you."

sypnosis. [ 1.4k words. angst + ??? ] — the moment you make up your mind to talk to xiao, you can't, because a traveller appears.

It continues on for weeks, Xiao will make sure your basic needs are met, but will be distant outside of that, and you provide surface-level medical practice.

You were beginning to think that the problem with Xiao is more of a mental thing… One you were not sure how to help him with, seeing as he doesn't actually talk to you out of pleasantries and one-sided conversations.

(Other than that, you were still confused as to why he treats you so fragilely, as if you were mortal.)

You've done countless hours of research over what karmic debt is, there's no cure.

You've even met Xiao's previous healer (from which you learned from Verr), Baizhu, who has taken you as an apprentice of sorts as you learn how to construct better medicine and would teach you better methods of more effective medicine.

But it never did help Xiao.

(“Human medicine does not work on me,”) you remember him telling you once after you made him drink a new concoction.

The only upside of this that you've been experiencing is that you've learned how to help others, and that Baizhu has praised you for being such a fast learner.

“You would work better as an apothecary rather than a healer now,” he jokes.

Xiao seemed not to mind going to these lessons, though he was definitely indifferent. As per the contract, you must always be with him, and he must always be with you, to protect and to support, at all times, he never left your side for too long.

Most times, when you were having your lessons, you learned through Baizhu that he was with Ganyu.

“What do they do?”

“Well, they talk, mostly, Ganyu has mentioned to me that Xiao has been more communicative these days,”

“Oh… okay.”

Baizhu notices the tone in your response and puts the mortar and pestle down, “Is everything alright?”

You sigh, “Can I… Can I say something that might be out of line?”

Baizhu’s eyes dart to the window behind the two of you and goes to shut it and the door, “What is it?”

You lean against the table, “I don't know, I feel… useless? I'm not doing anything to Xiao-xiansheng, I learn how to make medicine and you tell me I'm good at it, but… it doesn't improve his condition,”

You see him form a line with his lips, “On top of that, he doesn't talk to me, whenever I approach him, there's this… wall, I feel.”

“He feels so distant and I don't know how to talk to him about it because he always tells me he's fine, and I'm here thinking that “If he's fine, then what am I here for? What use do I have for him if he really is fine?””

“I haven't even figured out how to heal him at all! The most I've done was heal minor wounds, which have been like pulling a tooth out of him, by the way, I had to convince him for a long hour to let me hover my hand over the wound on his stomach to heal it,”

Your mentor sighs, “Patients who do not want help, cannot be helped,”

You put your hands over your face.

“I don't know what to do, I feel so useless,”

Baizhu comforts you for the rest of night, “Have you talked to Zhongli about it? Morax?”

You shake your head, “Should I?”

“It would be best that you do.”

…

If Xiao notices that you are quieter than before when he comes to take you back to Wangshu Inn, he makes no notice of it.

…

You do not get an opportunity to talk to Morax the following day.

A traveller appears.

Lumine, you learned her name through Verr, had worked together with Xiao during a nation-level threat from a few months ago. She returned because she had to ask him for help with something.

She looked like the sun, you thought.

“Adeptus Xiao is not here, Lumine,” Verr supplies, “Just call him,” she says and gets back to arranging papers. You watch her curiously from the kitchen as she goes up to the balcony.

You follow but take a different route to your room and settle for watching her from the window.

“Xiao,” you hear her say and he appears.

“You called?”

Hm.

You close the window and open a book.

The sinking feeling in your stomach has spread to your lungs this time and you think you're the one who's sick. You write this down on a piece of paper and address it to Baizhu.

There aren't any classes today and you prefer not to leave Xiao's side, but you cannot get sick either, asking help from Baizhu on your condition is crucial.

You step out of the room and hear the two still talking. You take a look and see Xiao facing her, back to you, as he listens to the traveller explain her request.

You turn and head for Verr.

“Miss Verr, can you please send this for me? I need this to reach Dr. Baizhu of Bubu Pharmacy by this afternoon,” you tell her.

“Of course, sweetheart, hold on,”

…

Xiao listens to Lumine’s request with crossed arms, the moment he appeared, he hears you close your window.

He swears he's listening to her, but all that occupies his mind is him listening to your footsteps descend down the stairs.

“Xiao? Are you still with me?”

“I apologize, what was it?”

The traveller sighs, “I received a commission to cleanse a hoard of hillichurls, and I would like your assistance, they seem to be… different, they're just like the ones with Starsnatcher,”

“Fine, wait here, I need to retrieve someone,” he says and then disappears.

Xiao catches the end of your request for Verr.

“... reach Dr. Baizhu of Bubu Pharmacy by this afternoon,”

“Of course, sweetheart, hold on,”

“Why do you need to reach Baizhu urgently? Are you ill?” his tone takes a more concerned route.

You shake your head.

“Have you eaten?”

“Yes,” you nod.

“Good, we'll be going with the traveller,” he tells you, “ she requires my assistance,”

You nod again, “Of course, xiansheng.”

…

Xiao insists that the four of you (you meet the traveller's companion, Paimon, a bit later) walk, because he doesn't want to risk you, or so he says.

Thankfully the traveller had no problem with walking and had actually proved to be a great conversationalist.

With her, you had talked more in the short time you walked than you had ever talked with Xiao in the past two months.

She had asked you about your favourite things and interests, including stories of her own when you found things you both favored. Paimon also offered you snacks.

It was a nice change of company.

The moment you reached the clearing, Xiao carried you over to a higher point of view, one where you can see him and he can see you, but you were out of harm's way.

“Stay here, do not surge into the field, no matter what,” he always says.

Then he leaves.

You're thankful that Paimon floated over to you moments later.

…

“Why'd you put her that far away? I can barely make Paimon out from down here,” Lumine squints as she tried to spot you from atop.

“She is weak, she will be a liability in battle,” he says.

Lumine winces, “Archons, isn't that a bit harsh? You don't mince your words at all, do you?”

“It's the truth,”

She walks towards the field where a camp has set, “I thought you'd be kinder since you're dating her,” she says, summoning her sword.

“I'm what?”

Lumine stops walking and faces him, the look of horror on his face paints the same look on hers.

“You're not?!?”

“No??”

“What in the actual- you know what, sure yeah, I'm not that surprised, let's talk later, Paimon wants Adeptus’ Temptation for dinner,”

The two approach the miasma infested creatures and began to slay them swiftly. The malevolent hillichurls do more damage than normal ones, but Xiao slices through them with his spear. Killing each and every last one he can see.

Just as they think it's over, a hillichurl appears from out of nowhere and throws a bomb-like concoction at Lumine, and Xiao shields her body with his.

They cough as the powder suffocates them and suddenly Xiao spits out a black jelly-like liquid from his mouth and falls to his knees.

“Xiao!”

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