["Ryunosuke". A name that was supposed to bring a sense of familiarity, but hadn't really at all. She had to stop expecting that just hearing names that sounded like they belonged to the world she'd come from would mean the person actually understood anything about her nation or her culture. Even if some of them were still called "Japan".
... This isn't the response she was really expecting, but. She should have expected something different. Unlike her, Rand was... The type of person who had allies. The type of person who had friends. So though she has a far more scathing comment sticking in the back of her craw... Hayame swallows it down in favor a simpler,]
Hmm... Surprising.
[That someone as excitable and flustered as the man she'd met could do decent craft work? Perhaps. But it leaves her with groping for something else to say, because she cannot just... humiliate him by asking him how he was doing and implying he might be weak? Beginning to inspect her bowstring for wear, estimating if it needed a waxing, Hayame falls sullenly silent.
She'd described Ryunosuke as bad at talking, she can't just-]
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... This isn't the response she was really expecting, but. She should have expected something different. Unlike her, Rand was... The type of person who had allies. The type of person who had friends. So though she has a far more scathing comment sticking in the back of her craw... Hayame swallows it down in favor a simpler,]
Hmm... Surprising.
[That someone as excitable and flustered as the man she'd met could do decent craft work? Perhaps. But it leaves her with groping for something else to say, because she cannot just... humiliate him by asking him how he was doing and implying he might be weak? Beginning to inspect her bowstring for wear, estimating if it needed a waxing, Hayame falls sullenly silent.
She'd described Ryunosuke as bad at talking, she can't just-]
... Your bow has held up well.