[ Ori has certainly come to know about that ‘fighting-obsessed’ side of Childe, both from her own encounters with him and what happened between him and Diluc, the first time Childe had been here. It’s part of why she’s been surprised throughout this entire conversation; Aether hasn’t struck her to be equally fight-obsessed, so the fact that he has been indulging Childe all the same sure feels like… something. She’s just not entirely sure what.

The more she looks at and listens to Aether, the more she realizes that he’s even more confused than she is about all this.

She pats him on the shoulder again. ]

Take some time and think about it some more when you aren’t quite so drunk, okay?

[ She can’t truly tell him what to do, but at the very least she doesn’t think that running off to kiss Childe like this would necessarily solve anything. ]

I can tell you, though, that… Mm, after we had to kiss because of the Gumdrops, Thoma and I stopped speaking to each other for a while. I think we were both a bit scared of how we were feeling about it. We wouldn’t talk again until he found himself dreamwalking into a horrible nightmare of mine. And I can tell you that those few weeks where we stopped talking, where we had to keep avoiding each other… Were very difficult…

When you’re feeling better, maybe it would be good to think about that… how you would feel if that happened to you and Childe.