[Hayame has never dedicated a single moment of her life to trying to understand how time worked. What need did anyone have of such a thing? In a world that made sense, where time just moved forward and ever onward...
The image in the bead fades away, and she doesn't quite realize she stopped breathing until all four lungs begin burning and she has to inhale just a bit too sharply. If she... If time there was somehow slower than here, if it was if she had never left... There was still time.
She could still get back before her master's men overran the village and enslaved the orphans who lived there-- before Kohibari was recaptured, before Matsukaze either died fighting or became an Armless, before Koume was forced to birth the child in her belly into the hay of a broodmare's stall like her own weak mother had-
She could still get back there to die, to cleanse her honor like she'd promised she would.
But what she wants now... Right now, something more immediate than the insurmountable seeming task of finding her way "home"...]
How do I make it stay bright- ?
[He talked about "the Meridian", he made it come alive with just his touch...]
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The image in the bead fades away, and she doesn't quite realize she stopped breathing until all four lungs begin burning and she has to inhale just a bit too sharply. If she... If time there was somehow slower than here, if it was if she had never left... There was still time.
She could still get back before her master's men overran the village and enslaved the orphans who lived there-- before Kohibari was recaptured, before Matsukaze either died fighting or became an Armless, before Koume was forced to birth the child in her belly into the hay of a broodmare's stall like her own weak mother had-
She could still get back there to die, to cleanse her honor like she'd promised she would.
But what she wants now... Right now, something more immediate than the insurmountable seeming task of finding her way "home"...]
How do I make it stay bright- ?
[He talked about "the Meridian", he made it come alive with just his touch...]