Ellin did not respond to people's friendly greetings.
She seemed somewhat dazed-or rather, her heart was tangled with emotions that kept circling within her.
Her heart was in turmoil, lost in uncertainty, and she paid no attention to the people around her.
Her eyes were unfocused. When those around her greeted her, she merely nodded instinctively, then headed straight out of the city.
She flew high into the sky and hovered there in silence, looking down at the ruined, barren land left in the disaster's wake.
She said nothing, simply hovering in the air and silently watching the disaster-stricken Mondstadt. Only when the sun sank in the west did she return to Mondstadt City.
After returning to Mondstadt City, she neither ate a bite nor absorbed elemental energy to replenish her strength.
She flew up to the Cathedral's bell tower, the highest point in Mondstadt City.
From there, she could see almost all of Mondstadt.
She sat there for three whole days without a word, without even a sip of water, and without any change in her expression.
All of Ellin's friends noticed the change in her.
From the day she sat down on the Cathedral's bell tower, her friends came to see her almost every day.
They could feel the loneliness and sorrow of the figure atop the bell tower.
But they did not know how to help her. All they could do was quietly keep her company this way.
"Venti, what's wrong with Ellin...?"
Feeling Ellin's loneliness and sorrow, Fischl and the others were heartbroken.
Ellin was their best friend.
Seeing their gentle friend, who had always been so happy and full of energy, suddenly become like this left them both saddened and aching for her.
"Ah..."
At Fischl and the others' question, Venti let out a