Perhaps you should have cautioned your men to be more careful then.
[If they had been any gentler on him, Zhongli probably wouldn't be here. He grunts when weight presses him down into the soft mattress, scowling at the lump shifting where Childe disappeared beneath the blankets.]
A single night's rest isn't worth my name. You have no reason to even want it anyway.
[hands rove over his stomach and Zhongli finally moves to snatch them by the wrists, heartbeat picking up.]
Stop. You're sorely mistaken if you think I won't risk freezing because you won't keep your hands to yourself.
[This threat would hit harder if just holding the harbinger's hands away from his skin didn't leave him basically completely defenseless. It would be trivial to push him onto his stomach or back fully, and the best he could do would be to try to elbow or kick the harbinger.
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[If they had been any gentler on him, Zhongli probably wouldn't be here. He grunts when weight presses him down into the soft mattress, scowling at the lump shifting where Childe disappeared beneath the blankets.]
A single night's rest isn't worth my name. You have no reason to even want it anyway.
[hands rove over his stomach and Zhongli finally moves to snatch them by the wrists, heartbeat picking up.]
Stop. You're sorely mistaken if you think I won't risk freezing because you won't keep your hands to yourself.
[This threat would hit harder if just holding the harbinger's hands away from his skin didn't leave him basically completely defenseless. It would be trivial to push him onto his stomach or back fully, and the best he could do would be to try to elbow or kick the harbinger.
Which, at this point, is admittedly tempting.]