[Childe nods, and is thankful for Alastor's expanding umbrella.... thing. Perhaps a power he had? Whatever it was, it was nice for keeping the rain off.]
I never dealt with any of them personally, but a... [Friend? Ex-friend? Many shared meals and warm gazes, wandering hands. A hand piercing dragon scale. A hand handing over a gnosis. A plan he was not privvy to. Every whisper in Liyue calling him a monster--] An acquaintance, of mine... He knows a lot more about these things [Had actually been there. The bitterness lingers in Childe's mouth. Why is he still honouring his request.] than I do.
[Childe draws up his memories, painful and fond all at once.]
There was a war hundreds of years ago, in our world. Many gods fought to the death for the right to rule the land. The ones that died were so angry and bitter about it that their spirits tended to linger, and it would infect living creatures around them. There's a whole... thing about exorcising them and everything.
[The fatuus shuffles his feet, shrugging. That was the best he could explain it in a way someone else unfamiliar to... all of that could understand.]
What are demons like for you? Like, your world. Hell and all.
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I never dealt with any of them personally, but a... [Friend? Ex-friend? Many shared meals and warm gazes, wandering hands. A hand piercing dragon scale. A hand handing over a gnosis. A plan he was not privvy to. Every whisper in Liyue calling him a monster--] An acquaintance, of mine... He knows a lot more about these things [Had actually been there. The bitterness lingers in Childe's mouth. Why is he still honouring his request.] than I do.
[Childe draws up his memories, painful and fond all at once.]
There was a war hundreds of years ago, in our world. Many gods fought to the death for the right to rule the land. The ones that died were so angry and bitter about it that their spirits tended to linger, and it would infect living creatures around them. There's a whole... thing about exorcising them and everything.
[The fatuus shuffles his feet, shrugging. That was the best he could explain it in a way someone else unfamiliar to... all of that could understand.]
What are demons like for you? Like, your world. Hell and all.