[... Is he joking? She honestly can't tell. In a world like this, maybe it genuinely was that you didn't feel... kinship. But hearing it, doubt creeps into her mind. Kinship. She had only ever felt that with her brother, and yet that woman, the leader of the Yima...
She had felt something foreign that could only be called maternal when that woman had embraced her. And that's what was wrong with it. Hayame had never felt that feeling before. The only thing she had ever felt for the woman who'd born her was pity and disgust, so how-
"His city". If it "calls out" to her. If it "feels comfortable". Such vague, frustrating phrases, and she... Is still looking down at the dim bead in her hand until finally,]
/sets up for a summary ending?!
She had felt something foreign that could only be called maternal when that woman had embraced her. And that's what was wrong with it. Hayame had never felt that feeling before. The only thing she had ever felt for the woman who'd born her was pity and disgust, so how-
"His city". If it "calls out" to her. If it "feels comfortable". Such vague, frustrating phrases, and she... Is still looking down at the dim bead in her hand until finally,]
... Tell me more.
[She needs to know.]