The Sky Hummed Back Genshin Impact Fanfic by MythboundCal
The roots of the tree were warm.
Not in the way sunlight warms bark, but in the way a place remembers who’s sat there before.
Wanderer didn’t sit. Not at first.
He stood, arms crossed, like someone expecting judgment to fall from the canopy. But it didn’t.
Just wind. Just sun. Just Sumeru.
He sat eventually. Not out of peace. Just fatigue.
Time passed like water. Maybe an hour. Maybe a day.
Then Nahida arrived.
She didn’t ask to join him. She didn’t say anything at all.
She just sat beside him on the moss, legs tucked neatly, white and green robes folding like petals around her. The tree didn’t mind. Neither did he.
They didn’t speak.
She didn’t ask how he felt. He didn’t ask for forgiveness. The breeze did all the talking—rustling leaves, stirring strands of his hair that had grown longer than he liked.
He closed his eyes.
And for the first time in centuries, he didn’t feel the need to defend the silence.
He thought silence was emptiness—until hers answered.
He thought stillness was punishment—until she shared it with him.
They sat there until the sun tipped golden. Until the wind changed direction. Until the shadows softened.
She rose first.
“You don’t have to tell me anything,” she said gently, brushing soil from her knees. “But if you ever want to… I’ll be under this tree.”
Then she left. Just like that.
No sermon. No cleansing ritual. No confessional.
Only wind. Only quiet. Only the softest kind of welcome.
Wanderer leaned back against the bark.
And the sky hummed back.