[It is humiliating, to feel the Veneran woman's shaky hand splay against her dun withers. Hayame locks her knees when Liem cups his hands to help the woman mount, when she feels fingers curl in the inky remnants of mane down her back... and pupils dilate, a surge of nausea boils in her lower stomach when she feels weight press onto her flank, moving up-
It dulls her senses. It narrows her vision.
It means that she's shocked when Luo Binghe suddenly appears before them. Her movement is hampered by the tense lock of her joints, her hearts freeze in her chests with shock, with condemnation for not having heard it coming, with shame for being seen letting a woman mount her for riding like a common horse-
But all of it vanishes when the sword swings.
Hayame doesn't think of the woman and her baby who are half on her back. She doesn't think of Liem, who will have to catch them or avoid her lurch of movement. All she thinks in that moment is that if she doesn't move, Luo Binghe's sword will slice her foreleg clean off.
So she rears, high and sudden and accompanied by a curse, her hooves lashing out in powerful kicks that serve as a desperate, chaotic attempt to keep the swordsman at bay.]
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It dulls her senses. It narrows her vision.
It means that she's shocked when Luo Binghe suddenly appears before them. Her movement is hampered by the tense lock of her joints, her hearts freeze in her chests with shock, with condemnation for not having heard it coming, with shame for being seen letting a woman mount her for riding like a common horse-
But all of it vanishes when the sword swings.
Hayame doesn't think of the woman and her baby who are half on her back. She doesn't think of Liem, who will have to catch them or avoid her lurch of movement. All she thinks in that moment is that if she doesn't move, Luo Binghe's sword will slice her foreleg clean off.
So she rears, high and sudden and accompanied by a curse, her hooves lashing out in powerful kicks that serve as a desperate, chaotic attempt to keep the swordsman at bay.]