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[abovefate]

I wasn't looking for advice, Morax.

[ he's crossing his arms at his chest and looking at him, and then he shrugs ]

I just know he will benefit more from your presence than mine. I don't like you, but he does. When he's ready to see me I'll talk to him too.

I am grateful for what you did in my dream. And it's why I invited you here. I will not try to push Tartaglia away from you again.

As for your original question.

I was never a pawn to any higher being. My creator abandoned me and let me live my life as I saw fit. Everything I did was because I wanted to do it. I was not cursed or manipulated by any other higher being.

If I had the chance at another life perhaps I'd simply want to never know who I truly was, and why I came to being.

[leaveofabsence]

I was never concerned about your attempts to do so. Tartaglia is free to make his own decisions.

. . .

But if that is your wish, then your unit abilities provide you a way to make that a reality.

[abovefate]

No. I don't actually want to forget. If anything forgetting would be terrifying now that I know. There's a reason why my meeting with Lilith entailed losing my sense of self little by little over and over again.

Had I never known from the start perhaps I would have had different expectations. Different experiences. Maybe my ties would have truly been severed fully.

But I'm not living that life, and I will not change it now. I simply want to make it clear that my actions have been my own. It'd be so much easier to shake it off as me having been bound by fate. But what I've been bound by is my desire for revenge and hatred. And whether it will keep consuming me and everything that's unfortunate enough to come across me remains to be seen.

Still.

I'm thinking perhaps after all of this ... I might just wander a little longer. Travel to other Worlds. That was a suggestion you wrote, wasn't it?

[leaveofabsence]

It was.

The stars and places that exist outside of Teyvat are almost limitless in number.

And we have the rare chance to get to experience some of them firsthand here. Surely among them, you could find a place that you would enjoy.

[abovefate]

And if not I could always hop onto the next one, looking for something new and exciting. Endless wonder without being pathetically stuck in a single moment for eternity.

[ like someone else was hoping for ]

Alexander invited me to see his world too.

[leaveofabsence]

Alexander is very wise and seems to have taken quite an interest in helping you find your feet.

I think that might a good place to start your journey - so that you may have someone to guide you should you desire such a thing.

[abovefate]

I don’t need “guidance”.

[ he definitely needs guidance ]

What about your answer, then? About what your objective is. There’s something else I need to tell you, but go on first.

[leaveofabsence]

[ And the realization of that seems like an Emet problem. Not a Zhongli problem. Ganba, other grandpa. ]

My objective is simple. I wish to tell the story of Teyvat and its people beyond our stars. Doing so with the Traveler was the first instance of such a opportunity. And while the circumstances of being here are quite unfortunate and against my will, the fact that Travelers from dozens of worlds exist here makes that wish all the more possible.

[abovefate]

Do you care about Teyvat so much that you just couldn't help that? That's not worth all this effort.

[leaveofabsence]

I care greatly about Teyvat, yes. And for those who no longer have the chance to let their stories be told. Such is the duty of those who survive.

[abovefate]

Had I lived as long as you have I would probably hate the place even more. But how fortunate then, that what I wanted to share is what happened to my world. My version of it, any way.

How much has Tartaglia shared with you? You already know I deflected and took the Gnosis with me. I told you about the Tataragami in the dream, and how that happened as well.

[leaveofabsence]

He has respected your privacy and told me very little.

[ Whether that is true or not is up for Scaramouche to decide. ]

I only know that many people there died, himself included. Though with your additional telling, it seems that death came for many.

Are there those that managed to survive? Or has the cycle of rebirth begun anew.

[abovefate]

Not many. I was one of them, Dottore was another, though if he died before I saw him again I have no idea. I was killed at any rate, and since you Archons also lost your minds, I doubt those who survived will survive for long.

Things did get downhill once it was gods and immortal beings that begun to lose it.

I will give you a list of my movements after I took the Gnosis. If you kill me before any of that happens, your world should be safe, no? Tartaglia may end up not having the heart for it now.

[leaveofabsence]

An incredibly generous offer. And one I would be a fool not to accept.

...

Is this something you also do for Tartaglia?

[abovefate]

I’m not doing it for you and I’m not doing it because I care about Teyvat. Make of that what you will.

[leaveofabsence]

Is this something you would rather he not know about?

[abovefate]

[ he’s quiet for a moment as he think it over, and eventually he shakes his head ]

I already told him he should kill his version of me and take the Gnosis for himself, but he hasn’t been receptive to it.

Whether you tell him you’ll take care of it or not is up to you. For me it won’t make a difference.

[leaveofabsence]

Very well then. I shall leave that up to my own digression.

Is there anything else you require to have a satisfactory conclusion to our contract?

[abovefate]

No. Go check on him an make sure he’s fine. I’ll send you that list to your phone.

[leaveofabsence]

[ Since Zhongli knows exactly zero about hacking and digital security. ]

Of course. I will await your correspondence.

And you, too, check on him when you are ready.

[abovefate]

[ guess who also has zero idea about hacking and digital security ]

We'll see about that. See yourself out. Thanks for the company.