If it flies, Childe is quick to dodge, athletic enough that the movement seems utterly natural—and he draws his own bow from his back, not the valuable Polar Star he once possessed but a weapon borrowed from this place, suitable enough as a tool for his purposes of survival.
So they face each other, arrow to arrowhead. The smile on his face is thin and curved, and it doesn't reach his eyes.]
Oh? We must be enemies, if you're looking at me like that. Though I don't think we have ever met before this moment. Unless... did you know me before?
[She wouldn't be the first. Childe appears unbothered by this fact as he takes a step to the side—unknowingly, his foot depresses the stone beneath it, and something clicks.] Uh oh. [Another leap away allows him to narrowly avoid the wall of fire that blazes up between them, rippling with gold heat, so they are now separated by this barrier.]
Ha ha, [why is he laughing] it looks like this room may be trapped!
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If it flies, Childe is quick to dodge, athletic enough that the movement seems utterly natural—and he draws his own bow from his back, not the valuable Polar Star he once possessed but a weapon borrowed from this place, suitable enough as a tool for his purposes of survival.
So they face each other, arrow to arrowhead. The smile on his face is thin and curved, and it doesn't reach his eyes.]
Oh? We must be enemies, if you're looking at me like that. Though I don't think we have ever met before this moment. Unless... did you know me before?
[She wouldn't be the first. Childe appears unbothered by this fact as he takes a step to the side—unknowingly, his foot depresses the stone beneath it, and something clicks.] Uh oh. [Another leap away allows him to narrowly avoid the wall of fire that blazes up between them, rippling with gold heat, so they are now separated by this barrier.]
Ha ha, [why is he laughing] it looks like this room may be trapped!