[Hayame had believed, once, in things like “no choice”. Hadn’t she had no choice but to serve humans? Hadn’t she had no choice but to cut down those around her and strive to be the strongest and the coldest of warriors to prevent being sold as a broodmare or a mount? But no. She’d always had a choice… she’d just been too weak to choose death or the even more terrifying possibility of freedom beyond the life she’d been born into.
If she had been brought in with those first aions… surely she would have bitten her tongue off rather than swallow the bl-
Ah.
They didn’t die here. The proper nature of death was interrupted, she couldn’t kill herself so easily. Or kill another. She’s tried. Halfway between Venera and Greentruth, her body growing bony and weak, she had tried to crush her shard beneath her hoof… and every time she’d attempted to release her hold on her weight she’d felt so nauseous she eventually threw up.
Maybe… he hadn’t had a choice. But even if that were so-]
If you truly wish to leave… if you will try whatever it takes to get free of that foul curse-
[There is only thing that she can view as dedication, whole and desperate. Anything less… it was surely just words. Surely just a trick. If he truly wanted to escape that fate-]
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If she had been brought in with those first aions… surely she would have bitten her tongue off rather than swallow the bl-
Ah.
They didn’t die here. The proper nature of death was interrupted, she couldn’t kill herself so easily. Or kill another. She’s tried. Halfway between Venera and Greentruth, her body growing bony and weak, she had tried to crush her shard beneath her hoof… and every time she’d attempted to release her hold on her weight she’d felt so nauseous she eventually threw up.
Maybe… he hadn’t had a choice. But even if that were so-]
If you truly wish to leave… if you will try whatever it takes to get free of that foul curse-
[There is only thing that she can view as dedication, whole and desperate. Anything less… it was surely just words. Surely just a trick. If he truly wanted to escape that fate-]
Give me your shard.