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Try to bus: get revived; Try to hide: get mcmurdered

Who: sensitIV + Visitors??
Where: sensitIV dorms
When: Night of 365/366

[We tried so hard and got so far but in the end half of us still got murdered.]

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Our healing ability has limits. We can fix broken bones and get whatever flesh is there to knit back together, but that's dependent on having enough flesh left over, y'know? We can't just generate more.

In this case... a bunch of us had our spines crushed or severed. So we'll have to rely on a different ability to heal.

And what ability is that?

Sick of the Hunger. We don't have to sleep or eat, but if we do, we can regenerate even severe damage like lost limbs.

Ah, I see.

Something like a conscious hibernating.

...I mean, in our case, it's just that the actions of sleep or consuming nutrients has a healing effect in the cases where we're injured...

Oh.

[ Maybe he doesn't get it. ]

Then are you trying to get some sleep?

Sort of? I've been trying for a while now, but it's hard to settle down after everything.

Yes. I can only imagine.

If it is not too forward of me, I could attempt to help you eat something or read a story to you in order to expedite your healing.

I don't know if a story would help much, but I won't say no to food.

I'll make some soup. Hopefully that won't be too difficult to eat in your condition.

That sounds nice.

Then wait here.

[ As if he could go anywhere else ]

I shall not be very long.

[ And give Zhongli like 30-45 minutes and he will come back with a hot (and somewhat pretentious) bowl of chicken soup. ]

[Cool, he'll just return to zoning out until he returns.]

Done already? What's on the menu?

Chicken soup.

[ Which he sets down next to Izanagi ]

Ah, you are not able to move your arms at all, are you?

Not even a little.

[ Shifts to help Izanagi into a sitting position with his back propped up against the wall.

Hope that doesn't jostle something in a way it's not supposed to. ]

[Not like Izanagi can tell! That would require being able to feel things! With nerves! From a functional spine.]

[ Touche.

Sob.

As he is offering him the first spoonful. ]

Would you be interested in a tale while you eat? In my home country of Liyue, there where many places where you could watched the famed poets present and enjoy good food and drink.

[Blowing on it a little at first.]

Oh- uh, sure. That sounds nice.

[And then opening up his mouth for food, aaaa.]

[ Aaaaah.

Eat up, Izanagi. ]

Then might I tell you the story of the fall of a tyrant and the birth of the Anemo archon, god of freedom.

[Monch. He's busy eating soup and he can't move to gesture otherwise, but he will make an affirmative noise - he's listening!]

Before the Seven archons came to power, the world of Teyvat was a wartorn land. Various gods and demons roamed the continents, fighting for control of every village, town, or domain. One such god - Decarabian the god of storms - entrapped himself and his people all within a giant vortex of wind that could not be crossed. And beyond the raging winds was a land of harsh mountainous terrain and unforgiving frost further dissuading those who might think of leaving.

And so the people lived sheltered and protected by their god, but stripped of their freedom. They saw their god a tyrant while he believed himself just and good.

An authority that could never be challenged, huh...

Precisely.

Though Mondstadt - the land ruled over by Decarabian - had always been known for it's bards and songs. And one such tale, a folk song of old, began to grow in popularity.

Leave the keen steel to those who will give their lives for the fight,
Prepare the thieves' gallows,
Sharpen your rusted arrows,
For when the music sounds, we shoot the beasts down.

And so the people rebelled against their god.

And how did that turn out for them?

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