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[ The default voicemail message greets you. ]

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[childeishly]

[ no response after that he’s just going to head to the dorm dorm to wait for zhongli. ]

[leaveofabsence]

[ Knock knock.

You have a visitor. ]

[childeishly]

[ he manages to get precisely one knock in before childe whips the door open. ]

Xiansheng, come in.

[leaveofabsence]

[ He's giving Childe a once over as he steps inside to see if anything looks immediately wrong. ]

Are you all right?

[childeishly]

[ he just looks a little flustered, but beyond that he’s fine. ]

Yeah. I mean, probably? [ starts heading to his room. ]

[leaveofabsence]

[ Probably...???

Zhongli just wordlessly follows ]

[childeishly]

[ as soon as they reach his room he shoves the door shut and pulls up his sleeve to reveal the hydro tattoo. ]

Did you see this at all when I was at Heart or were you being too polite?

[leaveofabsence]

No, but I saw it in this very room while you were trying to remove your arm from your torso.

[childeishly]

[ opens mouth,
closes mouth. ]

...

Fair.

I have 2 more of them.

[ lifts his pant leg and shows the one on his ankle and then hesitates on the last one, but ultimately shrugs off his jacket and tosses it aside and pulls his shirt over his head, revealing the mixed womb tattoo. ]

[leaveofabsence]

[ Instinctively he reaches out to touch---

But he stops with his gloved hand hovering over the womb tattoo. ]

May I?

[childeishly]

Ah, s- sure. Just, ah, be... careful... it... it's sensitive...

[leaveofabsence]

. . .

[ He carefully traces over the hydro portion of the tattoo with just his fingertips. ]

[childeishly]

[ his hands twitch at his sides as he tries to keep from grabbing zhongli's wrist. turns his head aside as his face ignites with color, chest heaving a number of uneven breathes. ]

[leaveofabsence]

[ And he pulls his hand away. ]

Does it hurt?

[childeishly]

No, it's... it's kind of the opposites, actually.

[leaveofabsence]

Perhaps I should rephrase the question. Does it bother you?

[childeishly]

D- Define bother.

[leaveofabsence]

Distract you. Or perhaps makes you uncomfortable.

[childeishly]

...a bit of a distraction. But not in, ah, a bad way...? I mean, it's not exactly good, but... [ clears his throat. ] Uncomfortable isn't the right word.

[leaveofabsence]

I see. . .

When did this start? They were not so sensitive a few days ago.

[childeishly]

The others aren't sensitive, but it's not like I normally sit around touching them... I just thought they were tattoos and not... whatever the hell they actually are. Sensitivity points???

[leaveofabsence]

[ He looks at Childe for a long time, slowly letting all of this sink in. The Abyss. The mask. The nightmares. And now this - on top of everything else. ]

Is there something that I can do?

[childeishly]

...

Xiansh- [ coughs. ] Ah, what do you mean, you’re already helping by being here. And this is, uh, it’s not something I imagine you... I can probably deal with this. It was just alarming. It’s not everyday I think I’m going to [ clears his throat. ] if someone so much as touches this, h- hah.

[leaveofabsence]

I'm afraid I do not understand. Is there something else to this tattoo?

[childeishly]

K- Kinda.