[... Katana. Uchigatana. Not "swords" or "blades" or "knives". Perhaps it's something simple, but it makes Hayame's single remaining eye sharpen with sudden focus and interest she had not possessed in this man before.
"Citadel" is not a word she is as familiar with, but it is a fortress, a castle of some kind, and so... So, perhaps, perhaps-]
Who do you serve?
["Did"-- None of them here had anything anymore, their worlds were gone or so far away they couldn't be reached, yet-]
Which lord?
[Could it be one she had heard of? A clan that sent a representative to her master's stables for Auction Day? He had not seemed to react to her as if jinba were such an alien species, so could he possibly even be from the Japan that she knew... ?
How pitiful, that she hadn't fully forgotten how to hope.]
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"Citadel" is not a word she is as familiar with, but it is a fortress, a castle of some kind, and so... So, perhaps, perhaps-]
Who do you serve?
["Did"-- None of them here had anything anymore, their worlds were gone or so far away they couldn't be reached, yet-]
Which lord?
[Could it be one she had heard of? A clan that sent a representative to her master's stables for Auction Day? He had not seemed to react to her as if jinba were such an alien species, so could he possibly even be from the Japan that she knew... ?
How pitiful, that she hadn't fully forgotten how to hope.]