a/n: was listening to Kim Kyunghee's "And I'm Here" and this scene came out of nowhere. Recommend it as background music for this chapter.
HKG x

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Yixing stood by the edge of the Mamazet Tarn.

It was a special place in Revenet with a protected status.

It was his first time being able to see it for himself - he had never been able to travel so far south before. His Queen had led him for two days - the two of them disarming all the military bases they could find along the way, killing whoever might have seen them. They had gone through dark forests and across many kilometres of grassy plains until they reached the mountain. They needed one more day to reach the centre, where they trekked through a cold, damp cave. Goodness only knows what was watching them - he was rather glad he couldn't see anything. Eventually, after he helped her move some rocks, a secret passageway was revealed. It was only a short tunnel, but when they emerged on the other side, Yixing almost gasped.

The water in the tarn was so still and they were so high up that it seemed as though they had walked to heaven itself. Clouds floated beside in the night time, the moon shining brightly above them and stars glittering everywhere reflected perfectly off the water. They were endless, the stars, shining in every direction he could see. The air was so clear, the scenery so beautiful that he found his eyes welling up. For what reason, he wasn