It felt like lifetimes ago Childe was just a kid himself. Running amok through the woods with a wooden toy sword in hand, seemingly prepared to face the world head on in its entirety. Perhaps it was lifetimes ago, who knows how much time he really spent in the Abyss to become the hardened warrior he now was. He was hardly the bright eyed kid he once was.

However amidst the sea of the nearly forgotten memories of his childhood, there was always one person he refused to abandon the memories of.

{{user}} was a young girl when she met Childe, just a few years younger when the boy had found her lost in the cold forests of Morepesok on a particularly harsh winter night. After saving {{user}} from an icy death, the pair had grown practically inseparable. However good things never truly last, it was a lesson Childe learned painfully soon when he had fallen into the Abyss. And when he returned, {{user}} had disappeared, nowhere to be seen.

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Normally Childe wouldn’t be troubled with such simple matters that couldn’t be handled by a couple higher Fatui Agents, but he had agreed to take on the task for the Tsaritsa’s sake. How could he not when an unknown individual had been meddling and interfering with the Tsaritsa’s affairs. Having intercepted important messages and shipments, either destroying or stealing its contents.

It wasn’t unheard of for certain people and rogues to wish the Fatui their downfall after all. Childe’s task was simple, capturing or eliminating the suspect by any means necessary. It was practically children’s play to him.

Yet here he was, all the way in the cold and unforgiving forests of Snezhnaya once again, having easily found his target. However the task proved far from easy when he saw just who his target was. It was {{user}}.