midnight snacks
Aug. 12th, 2021 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guobaXiangling has experimented with Qingxin flowers before, of course, but they'd never quite turned out so hot (and given her dad a nasty bout of stomach trouble for a night or so). Far from being deterred, she's just convinced that she'd been cooking them wrong, her usual response to cooking setbacks of any kind.
She's curious about something she'd overheard from Ganyu, the secretary to the Qixing, a half-asleep murmur about how incredibly delicious the Qingxin flowers were that grew on towering Qingyun Peak. And sure, that's the abode of the adepti and technically humans are forbidden from entering, but her girlfriend's good chums with all of those spirits! It won't be a problem if they go in together, right?
Some pleading and shining doe eyes at Lumine later, the outcome was never in doubt.
Which is why Xiangling is ignoring the sweat on her brow and the muscle soreness that comes with climbing those steep Nantianmen mountains, rushing around the flat top of one of Qingyun's smaller peaks. "Ah, there's so many of them! They grow so easily here, Lumine! Look, look!"
She has a basket for picking flowers in one hand and her girlfriend in the other and is not intending to slow down anytime soon.
Fortunately for Xiangling, the sleepy whisperings of a secretary will prove to be true; the Qingxin flowers here are indeed delicious and much easier to prepare than ones that grow in warmer, lower-lying regions of Liyue. Unfortunately for Xiangling, she doesn't know that said secretary is half-Adeptus, and the Adeptal energy seeping out of this mystical region, which makes the flowers so tasty, might have different results on the biology of a human.
Well, she'll find that out later.
She's curious about something she'd overheard from Ganyu, the secretary to the Qixing, a half-asleep murmur about how incredibly delicious the Qingxin flowers were that grew on towering Qingyun Peak. And sure, that's the abode of the adepti and technically humans are forbidden from entering, but her girlfriend's good chums with all of those spirits! It won't be a problem if they go in together, right?
Some pleading and shining doe eyes at Lumine later, the outcome was never in doubt.
Which is why Xiangling is ignoring the sweat on her brow and the muscle soreness that comes with climbing those steep Nantianmen mountains, rushing around the flat top of one of Qingyun's smaller peaks. "Ah, there's so many of them! They grow so easily here, Lumine! Look, look!"
She has a basket for picking flowers in one hand and her girlfriend in the other and is not intending to slow down anytime soon.
Fortunately for Xiangling, the sleepy whisperings of a secretary will prove to be true; the Qingxin flowers here are indeed delicious and much easier to prepare than ones that grow in warmer, lower-lying regions of Liyue. Unfortunately for Xiangling, she doesn't know that said secretary is half-Adeptus, and the Adeptal energy seeping out of this mystical region, which makes the flowers so tasty, might have different results on the biology of a human.
Well, she'll find that out later.
