and also this one for the cyno-fontaine fake death au we also threw around. we're generating these aus at the speed of light
The rough fabric of the hood they’d put on Cyno chafes. It traps the air, turning everything much more warm and humid than it had to be- it almost feels like Sumeru, but with much less kindness and much less light.
That thought makes him huff out a laugh, and Cyno can feel the exhale he’d just let out linger against his cheeks. His head hurts. How funny, that it’s the nation of Hydro and yet, not a single sip of water has been spared for him.
You see. It’s funny because it has to be funny, because if it’s not funny then Cyno will start thinking and historically, that’s proven to be a pretty shit thing to happen to his sanity. Common sense. General well-being. Haha, general.
See: the thought that started this chain of events in the first place.
The rope tugs taught around his wrists, making him stumble for a single step before he quickly catches himself. Cyno had learnt this- invaluable skill, actually, in the desert. Little snippets of memory at the side of oases and hills of sand, seas of sand. He’d been taught to dance with the shifts of sands.
His wrists are burning with a newly-refreshed pain. The ache of too-tight rope pressing into abrasions and bruises. An ache in general. The throbbing feeling of nerves being abused too often and injuries forming before old ones could heal fully.
And then- the ground shifts into a new texture. Sun-warmed dirt instead of cool stone. Breeze against his skin.
The soft, rasping sound, of metal being drawn.
i wanted to write a lil something to accompany this but then Finals Week happened
i love this tho its so good <3 ty for writing it <333