Memetic Hazard(Arknights Modern AU)

[Chapter 2 - Pt. I]

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(3rd POV)

"Stupid L." Talulah was not pouting she was angry, very angry that the boy that saved her quietly disappeared without even saying a goodbye.

"Big sis... your awfully grumpy today." Ch'en softly says as she watched her pouting older half-sibling staring out of their house's window.

"I'm not grumpy!" Talulah retorted with her arms crossed as she huffed unhappily.

"Then why are you glaring on the window? Your giving people the wrong message if you continue that up big sis." Ch'en argued.

Which was fair considering Talulah had been glaring at the window for no reason over a few hours now.

"I'm not glaring at anyone I'm being mad at L for leaving me without even saying goodbye." Talulah argued back.

"Okay..." Ch'en reluctantly nodded with a skeptic look.

"Oh, come on! He's not imaginary have you no faith in me sis?" Talulah asked while looking insulted by the look Ch'en was giving her.

"N-No! I-I believe you big sis... its j-just that..." Ch'en doesn't know how to tell it to her older sister but.

The so called friend she made was not in fact real given what she overheard from her uncle.

The security systems recording where she was had showed no one but her talking to no one in particular.

Which may seen crazy at first but most chalked it up as just her being a kid as she was.

It's not that strange for child to have an imaginary friend though Talulah's case is odd.

"I'm not crazy! He was real and I saw him." Talulah retorted with a grumpy pout having guessed what her sister meant.

"I never s-said you were big sis." Ch'en argued back. "Hmph! Even my little sis thinks I'm crazy." Talylah returned to glaringly pout at the window.

Ch'en sighed her eyes held concern for her older sister given her childhood years wasn't as positive as her's was.

She was lucky because she was born as a pure Lung unlike her older half-sibling who was the product of her mother relationship with her father who was a victorian draco.

Given their mother was of royal blood just like their uncle, the current emperor of Yan, the younger brother of Wei Yenwu wasn't particular pleased of discovering their mother married with a draco nobleman.

Victoria and Yan's relationship wasn't what one would call positive due to the previous war that saw Yan lost some of their territory against Victoria 38 years ago.

It was humiliating due to the fact Yan had to sign an unfair treaty and this soured relationship between the two.

Both sides were still under a cold war of sort as Yan recuperated from the lost of a few small yet significant territories.

Knowing the scandal it would case in the Imperial court and to the public if word of it got out.

Wei was forced to make a choice which neither of the two child know only that it lead to Talulah's, father's death.

Plus it didnt help that rumors and the usual distrust of some of Yan's people to Victoria especially those of the Draco is still prevalent even after the wat ended.

Ch'en wasn't sure where the rumors of Talulah being an illegitimate child and an offspring of a foreign draco noble had started but ever since it spread.