In a clean, tidy home.
It was a standard three-bedroom apartment with a living room.
Two of the rooms were used as bedrooms. The third held ten computers with their RGB lighting cranked up to eye-searing levels. At first glance, it looked like an esports room.
The clatter of keyboards came from that room, occasionally punctuated by girls crying out in surprise.
A white-haired girl in a loose bear-print nightdress shuffled out of one of the bedrooms in her slippers.
She rubbed her sleepy eyes, glanced at the gaming room, and was left rather speechless.
"Keqing, Fischl, and Ayaka... why are you playing games so early in the morning?"
"Ah! Good morning, Ellin!"
Hearing Ellin's voice, everyone in the room greeted her.
They were Fischl, Keqing, Sucrose, Noelle, and Kamisato Ayaka.
As for how they had ended up here...
As permanent residents of Wonderland on Celestia, and the people closest to the Heavenly Principles, they naturally knew far more secrets than most.
When Ellin had taken all of Teyvat into a higher-dimensional universe, she had told Keqing, Ei, Jean, and the others beforehand.
After all, jumping into another dimension could have caused unusual phenomena in Teyvat, such as flash floods or earthquakes.
Informing the leaders of the nations beforehand had allowed them to prepare and avoid unnecessary panic.
Thus, as the people closest to Ellin, they already knew that Teyvat and they themselves had originally been created by people from a higher dimension.
And Ellin had brought Teyvat and all of them into that higher-dimensional universe.
Originally, after the jump to a higher dimension, people could move forward more freely, everyone could get on with their lives, and that would have been the end of it.
But a month ago, while in Wonderland, they had noticed that Ellin kept disappearing