[yeah, she’s seeing that, too, but it makes no sense at all? It’s not that a wolf taking the form of a man is unusual. She knows many druids, and curses like lycanthropy also exist. But this memory is so formative for her and there’s this aspect of it that she wasn’t aware of at all.
Especially because the man is an older elven man with dark hair and features that make the resemblance to Shadowheart very obvious, as is the way he reaches towards the child and calls out to her, to Jenevelle.]
[ hearing her reaction, zhongli - actually stops, in the trek to get her away from the memory, glancing to her, then to the memory proper. shapeshifting isn't uncommon in teyvat, either, but to a little girl that's surely terrifying? but for her to not remember it and react like that...
he looks at the man, registering the name that he calls - didn't she say that was her name, during the debates? - and his appearance. ]
... Jenevelle? [ testing the name out, but also asking it as a question as he looks at shadowheart. ]
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[yeah, she’s seeing that, too, but it makes no sense at all? It’s not that a wolf taking the form of a man is unusual. She knows many druids, and curses like lycanthropy also exist. But this memory is so formative for her and there’s this aspect of it that she wasn’t aware of at all.
Especially because the man is an older elven man with dark hair and features that make the resemblance to Shadowheart very obvious, as is the way he reaches towards the child and calls out to her, to Jenevelle.]
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he looks at the man, registering the name that he calls - didn't she say that was her name, during the debates? - and his appearance. ]
... Jenevelle? [ testing the name out, but also asking it as a question as he looks at shadowheart. ]
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...I don't know who that was.