[ to be fair, what she wanted was to return him to teyvat, if that is even possible. her goals aside, lumine's more than aware that childe has a family back in snezhnaya, a little brother who's still waiting for his return. for him to be here only means that he must've met his demise in some way, and she feels regretful that she could not prevent that in some way.

but then, a part of her still believes that this isn't the afterlife at all. it's just another world, another universe they could escape from eventually, if she can attribute people's disappearances to that. ]

He should be around here ...

[ lumine also glances around before she walks over to one of the storekeepers nearby. a few questions later, she's pointed toward an alley a few feet away. ]

Do you want to wait here and look around? [ she asks upon returning to childe, glancing up at him. ] It won't take too long to get what I need.