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    You are accepted for work as a maid in a big, gloomy mansion in the far ends of Mondstadt. Your old mistress was dismissive and her husband doubtful, and all it took was a whisper of your past amongst her circle for you to be sent packing.

    You are quiet enough, obedient enough, and more than abnormal enough. Girls of any respectable standing have quit year after year, until none applied any longer in the wake of rumours. Rumours of screams from the basement, old, close-mouthed maids with blood-stained aprons, and of a handsome master that is only seen in shadow.

    ("You met the spectre of the rumours, on your first day – the dark, blunt man that looked down at you in boredom, scarlet hair spilling around his face in a room of glittering chandeliers and the scent of incense. You met the faintly-teasing sword wielder with scars crisscrossing his forearms, loose haired and commanding. You met the stiffly polite gentleman lost in a novel, and the collected calculating man devoted to his work – investigative, intimidating, rational.

    You don’t know how to begin convincing yourself that the next time you see him, he will not be the cruel master of the estate, bloodstained and conniving.")

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    13 Apr 2022