【Genshin Impact fanfiction | rule-based horror | tour of the seven nations | no romance | Aether as the protagonist | mild horror】
Don’t trust the windmills. Don’t count the chimes. Don’t answer the one in the water who looks like you.
The little figure who flies beside you may have lost their shadow long ago.
There is no green-clad bard in Mondstadt, and the captain on night watch at the Knights of Favonius sometimes has black mist in his eyes.
The right eye of the Anemo Archon’s statue looks in a different direction every night.
And the person who wrote the rules has handwriting identical to yours.
Clutching the letter, Aether realized for the first time:
The rules had begun the moment he set foot in Mondstadt.
First stop: Mondstadt.
The wind has stopped in the city, and the bells ring from beneath the ground.
There is only one way to break the deadlock: break the rules.
