Another scene from Shadows on the Mountain by sillymonkey on AO3. This scene is from chapter 3. I love this fic please read though I'll admit I'm constantly crying while reading it so I draw the scenes to cope 😭 So very well written.
Do you know what quietly devastates me? It’s the fact as soon as the traveler is awake to register that their twin isn’t here, before anything else they do in Teyvat…
…they stay exactly where they are, because the fact that their twin isn’t here means their twin has got to be searching for them if at all capable of it.
They stay put, for two months—sixty days—one-thousand-four-hundred-and-forty hours—because it’s easiest to find someone when the lost person stay put. The traveler doesn’t even attempt to travel until well past the time it’s clear that this world is horribly different. This world, their twin isn’t coming back. This world, they—the lost and disoriented sibling—are the one who must find their twin.
We have always had enough time. Always, before now. Always, until Teyvat. But now they have stayed at this lakeshore two entire months, and there has been nothing. Their twin is gone, and time is in free-fall.