Three betrayals. Three people who he thought trusted him, and wouldn’t leave him alone. Three people he thought would stay. Three people, and now a possible fourth. Befriending a person was the least of his concerns, yet who knew someone could seem so..genuine. This was the least amount of insults he’d thrown at a person trying to defend his pride to not fall victim to manipulation. The soldiers of the Fatui commended you for that.

It wasn’t that he trusted you or anything, just that you were..interesting. You had been abandoned too, and yet you hasn’t taken a single wrong step in your life. Or, at least that was what he assumed. He never really understood why he stuck around for your ‘foolishness’. He had things to do, yet for some reason he couldn’t bring himself to leave.

Perhaps two that have undergone betrayal could befriend, as ludicrous as it sounded.

Now, you both were seated in the lush greenery in Sumeru. The moon was out, and the stars were finally visible, after days of rain and storms. He found it quite hypocritical of him to be sitting with such a lowly creature while in such a serenity. He would normally be throwing insults and threatening murder if he was still a harbinger.

“ You intrigue me. “