I need a genshin fic that takes place at some point after Nod Krai when the knights are out of favors from the Hexenzircle and are doing their best to shower Klee in attention and gifts in hopes of gaining Alice's favor to earn another one and while everybody else is scrambling to do that Albedo is standing off to the side probably drawing something or doing research, yk minding his damn business, and Durin is with him and just goes "I don't get it."
"Hm?" Albedo arches a brow and responds without looking up from his page. "Don't get what?"
"Why everybody is treating Klee so differently. Why are they all swarming her now that they're back from the expedition?"
"What-" Durin startles, not having realized he was coming off that way, "Oh no, no that level of attention would probably freak me out. I'm fine over here, haha."
The dragon twists his thumbs and sways his tail while he takes the time to find the words he's looking for, trying to avoid another misunderstanding. Even though his brother was really just teasing.
"I just mean it's different than before. I want to understand the reason for the change."
Albedo doesn't get much of a chance to answer before Jean walks up behind them holding a stack of papers, that she was likely on the way to deliver to Varka.
"Orders from the grandmaster actually. Actually that makes it sound harsh, everyone is happy to do it, but we were still told to."
Jean pauses her explanation for a moment while walking away to set down her papers. Durin can only feel himself growing more confused.
"You were there in Nod Krai," Jean sets the stack of papers she's holding down on the table and circles back, "Varka used up the knight's last favor from the witches so now we're trying to earn another one. It's better to be well insured so foes can't catch us unguarded."
"Oh okay, I get it now. You're trying to appeal to the Hexenzircle through their children." The dragons tail sways as he cocks his head to the side. "But then why only Klee? Why not the other witch's kids?"
Having overheard that a few other people in the room pull to a halt.
"Yeah, my mom was a member of the Hexenzircle! ... But she's not really around anymore..." Durin's eyebrows furrow as he thinks about his mom before shaking his head to dismiss the sad thoughts. "She was known as Mage M, the Story Witch."
Albedo finally takes the time to look up from his project and properly add to the conversation, adding more to Durin's case.
"Even if they can't get M's blessing they can still earn if from Alice," Albedo glaces over at Klee across the room, who is still swarmed with attention, and takes a moment to survey those listening in before he continues, "Alice views all the witch's kids as her own, the whole coven is basically a giant polycule."
"And how do you know that?" Varka asks, finally stepping out of the crowd and taking a proper place in the conversation. If there was a chance to earn Mondstat a favor over here he wasn't going to pass it up. He totally wasn't over here because he's curious about the interworkings of the witches, definitely not that.
Having not heard Varka, or maybe just choosing to ignore his question, Durin instead turns to Albedo and continues to build to topic where his brother left it.
"And even if that isn't true, there's my other mom. Mage R, the Sage Witch. She was mountain Durin's mother." Durin points at Albedo as he turns back to Jean and Varka with an innocent smile, "She's also Albedo's mom!"
"Hey," Albedo puts his hands up in defense as he looks at the grandmasters, "leave me out of this."
"And that one astrologist, Mona? Isn't she related to Mage B, the Seer Witch? Or did I read that one wrong?" Durin asks seemingly nobody as he puts a finger to his chin to think it over.
While Durin is lost in his thoughts, he remains completely oblivious to the ideas forming in everybody else's minds. Everybody else assumed they just referred to eachother as brothers and sisters as a joke thing, they didn't take it literally. Perhaps it was time for the knights to get Albedo a new paint set or maybe let Durin skip his vegetables once in a while or offer to pay for Mona's lunch when she's short on mora.
And then the fic will follow a short snippets format where Mondstat is just super nice to the Hexeri kids.