[Ironic as it might be... Hayame has not known as peace such as this since she arrived in this world. She had not even let herself lay down to sleep, unable to trust and taking short rests standing up, and for the first time since she had spilled damp and weak from a crystalline egg onto the floor of the Firebrand Temple she is on her side and she stays there, her breathing labored as shock sets in and she almost doesn't even notice.
Everything gets quiet, until only her double heartbeats pump weakly in her ears. Her initial, instinctive struggles to get back up die, and she collapses back to the ground, her impotent kicks of hoof and gripping fingers leaving furrows in the moss.
If she just stays there... If she just lets go...
There is a voice. Someone is there... and though her eyelids flutter, though she hears it cutting through the haze of weakness...]
Leave me...
[She doesn't want it to be there. She doesn't want someone to see her like this, weak and injured. She doesn't want to meet her end this way, cut down when she can't even put up a good fight.
The idea that it might be someone who wants to help her doesn't even enter her mind. She has no friends, no true allies, no fellow jinba, no reason to be saved... Who would even bother?]
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Everything gets quiet, until only her double heartbeats pump weakly in her ears. Her initial, instinctive struggles to get back up die, and she collapses back to the ground, her impotent kicks of hoof and gripping fingers leaving furrows in the moss.
If she just stays there... If she just lets go...
There is a voice. Someone is there... and though her eyelids flutter, though she hears it cutting through the haze of weakness...]
Leave me...
[She doesn't want it to be there. She doesn't want someone to see her like this, weak and injured. She doesn't want to meet her end this way, cut down when she can't even put up a good fight.
The idea that it might be someone who wants to help her doesn't even enter her mind. She has no friends, no true allies, no fellow jinba, no reason to be saved... Who would even bother?]