[... He sounds confident. He reaches for his shard so easily, so smoothly, that it catches Hayame off-guard. Something in her own shard throbs dully between her breasts, drops of blood calling to each other as he holds out the shard...
Surely it isn't going to happen. Once she has a hold of his shard, she will be able to expose him for a liar, well-meaning liar though it might be. Or perhaps... perhaps when she had been suffering from the Blight her mind had been too rattled to have sense, and perhaps this time when she holds it she will discover something lurking she did not before...
So why does she look almost terrified when she steps forward and reaches out to curl her fingers around his shard?]
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Surely it isn't going to happen. Once she has a hold of his shard, she will be able to expose him for a liar, well-meaning liar though it might be. Or perhaps... perhaps when she had been suffering from the Blight her mind had been too rattled to have sense, and perhaps this time when she holds it she will discover something lurking she did not before...
So why does she look almost terrified when she steps forward and reaches out to curl her fingers around his shard?]