[… Did removing the shard from the body rob the body of its powers? Hayame, without any herself, did not feel different when she had fished the bizarre crystal out of her chest… but she doesn’t know. And she doesn’t want to admit to not knowing, in case it will make her look the fool.
The glamor flickers again, cracking as her stubborn sense of self that struggles to imagine her body in the shape of the two-legged humans that had ruled her life wins out, revealing a powerhouse of human-like and equine flesh, seven feet tall and over half a ton of muscle… that can be rendered useless against “magic” no matter how weak in comparison her opponent seems. She will have to recast the glamor before anyone else sees, she’s one of the only (perhaps the only) person she has met among the aions who will never look like they belong in this world and this man-
Hah. He’d said he understood her.]
No.
[It isn’t agreeable at all. Did he think it would be?]
You expect me to trust you with just that? When your legs move as they do?
[What use is swearing she will shoot him through the heart if he reneges on this offer if he can glow and simply run away?]
no subject
The glamor flickers again, cracking as her stubborn sense of self that struggles to imagine her body in the shape of the two-legged humans that had ruled her life wins out, revealing a powerhouse of human-like and equine flesh, seven feet tall and over half a ton of muscle… that can be rendered useless against “magic” no matter how weak in comparison her opponent seems. She will have to recast the glamor before anyone else sees, she’s one of the only (perhaps the only) person she has met among the aions who will never look like they belong in this world and this man-
Hah. He’d said he understood her.]
No.
[It isn’t agreeable at all. Did he think it would be?]
You expect me to trust you with just that? When your legs move as they do?
[What use is swearing she will shoot him through the heart if he reneges on this offer if he can glow and simply run away?]