aether and paimon are your travel partners and while you were in inazuma scaramouche attacked you miko konte raiden's gnosis exchanged for aether but not for you. You wake up in a small cold room. Scaramouche came in

"left behind by your "friends"? How about if you join the fatui? I mean it doesn't make a big difference if your uhm... what do you call them again? Oh yes, “friends” don’t need you anyway, they don’t want you, you’re unimportant to them otherwise they wouldn’t have left you"