Of Orchids and Inteyvats (A Yelumi fic)

Chapter 22: The night of flowers (fluff version)

Well- this has to be published at some point- welcome to the fluffier version of the smut chapter and my first ever experience at making the almost same chapter twice, the two chapters can be read as standalones, as well both of them kinda result in the chapter after anyways. So yeah, this is the safe haven and fluff for everyone-

Anyways, on with the chapter!

Lumine finally got out of the messy work room she was in, sweating as if she had ran from Liyue to Mondstadt. After what seemed to be at least four hours of work or more, she got out of her teapot mansion to breathe some very needed fresh air. She proudly held up the two necklaces she had created from scratch, the light of the now full moon giving them a pale hue and making their colors stand out.

One was for herself, which was the less complicated to make of the two because stars weren't that hard to carve and cut in elemental gems, she just had to be careful to not make the edges too sharp so that it wouldn't scratch her. It was very simple but just enough to stand out; a golden shooting star made out of Prithiva Jade, an almost faithful replica of the one belonging to the Viatrix constellation. All tied together with strings of black thread she didn't expect to find when she searched through her messy work room while looking for the gemstones she needed.

Yelan's was by far the most effort demanding for her, as not only did she had to use different gems to make it, but she also had to carve very delicate flowers, and it was a work of precision and patience she was sure to never be able to do again. In spite of all this, the result was absolutely worth every droplet of sweat she had produced to make this; a water droplet with vines wrapped around it and small orchids adorning the vines, all tied together by dark blue thread she had also found in her search through her work room. She had to stick all the pieces of the necklace together with fragile resin, otherwise nothing would have stuck together. Plus, the coat was purely transparent and would leave the item intact even if it fell from the top of Dragonspine, so she was sure neither of them would break anytime soon.

Lumine put the two necklaces in her pocket dimension, praying that they wouldn't get lost in the myriad of things that were already in there. She was now sitting on the small floating island where she and Yelan had shared what she could only define as the definite start to their feelings, a hug she wasn't able to even process back then. Lumine anxiously waited, always keeping an ear focused on any sound her Subspace Waypoint could make. More stars appeared in the sky as a thought caught up to her; maybe Yelan wasn't going to be here, it was pretty late in the night after all. She couldn't help but let out a jaw-ripping yawn, all the exhaustion of the day now truly getting to her.

And that was the exact moment she recognized an oh-so-familiar voice echo through the vast extent of peaks that made up the teapot. With no second thoughts, Lumine rushed to the subspace waypoint and didn't even leave Yelan a second to even say hello that she hugged her tightly, burying her face in her coat's fur. She was finally back after hours and hours, and now that meant that Lumine was completely hers for the rest of the night and whenever would follow.

"Oh my, so eager too see me? Did you really miss me this much, Lu? Sorry if I had you waiting for too long; the person I had to investigate was being heavily uncooperative." She said, nuzzling in the crook of Lumine's neck and ruffling the shorter woman's hair, something that would probably become a habit if neither of them was willing to say anything about it.

The pair just stood like that for a moment, basking in each other's presence after what had felt like ages when it had been a few hours at most. Even instances of silence between them didn't even feel one bit awkward, instead they were relaxing.