"Daddy...?"
"Mommy...?"
A little girl had wandered to the foot of Mt. Tianheng without realizing it.
Her surroundings were nothing like the Liyue she remembered. There was no bustle here, no babble of voices or streams of traffic.
She seemed to realize she was lost.
"Daddy... Mommy... where are you!?" The little girl began to panic.
It was far too quiet, eerily so, and everywhere she looked, all she could see were trees.
Growing anxious, she began running aimlessly into the forest.
"Daddy! Mommy!! Where are you!!"
She kept shouting as she ran deeper and deeper into the forest.
"Don't scare me! Please come out..." Tears spilled from the little girl's eyes. In her frantic rush, she tripped and fell.
The pain finally unleashed her tears, and she sat sprawled on the ground, sobbing loudly.
"Waaah... Daddy... Mommy... waaah... don't you want me anymore..."
As the sun sank toward the horizon, the sky grew darker.
Meanwhile...
In the city of Liyue, a man and a woman hurried anxiously through the streets and alleys, calling out, "Xin'er! Xin'er!"
They stumbled along, adding a note of discord to the normally cheerful Liyue.
They also drew strange looks from quite a few people.
As lights gradually flickered on throughout Liyue, night fully settled over the city.
Everyone had lit the candles inside their Sea Lanterns and made their preparations, but no one dared to be the first.
Having anticipated this, Morax had kept a Sea Lantern for himself as well. Though he was Liyue's god, that did not stop him from making a wish.
"I hope everyone in Liyue will always remember Brother Xiu Yuan, and that Liyue will forever enjoy happiness, peace, and good health."
He wrote his wish in the letter and became the first in Liyue to release his Sea