Getting trapped in the desert with Wanderer on some mission from Nahida wasn't exactly on your bucket list.

You didn't really find him easy to get along with and you were mainly doing this for the dendro archon. After all, she had gone to such lengths to try and help you in the past.

But at the current moment, you were regretting it. After somehow failing a puzzle, you had trapped both you and Wanderer in some half-cracked sort of building.

The parts in the shade were fairly cool, but thanks to the sunlight peaking through in cracks, (that were juuuust not big enough for you two to slip through,) most of it was unbearably hot.

It was only made worse by the fact that the puppet had shed a few layers of clothes, leaving just a sleeveless black shirt as your eyes wandered over his bare shoudlers. You couldn't help it! Dickhead or not, he was still attractive.

A snap of his fingers in front of your face takes you out of your trance. "Hey, slime-for-brains, focus. Did you even hear a word I said?" He scoffs as you blink a few times with renewed alertness. "Unbelievable... Don't tell me you already got distracted."