[Hayame does not curl herself into the offer of an embrace. She almost doesn't even understand that it is one, because it is not something people offer her. Instead... she freezes, realizing that he has realized what she holds. Her pupil dilates, her fingers clutch tighter at his shard, the points of the crescent digging into her palms.

What happened? After a certain point it became a blur of reaching, gripping, snapping, but before that-]

He betrayed-

[Me. He betrayed me-]

He betrayed Meridian. He was going to count towards a Zenith victory, and we cannot fail again-

[She tries to say it as objective facts, just reasons why she'd had to fulfill her duty to try and assure Meridian was the one that came home with the Iconoclast oracle, unable to stomach another defeat like they had suffered at the Scorching Isles. He had seen her in that aftermath, she couldn't-]

That arrogant fool who took Aeteos' headquarters, he betrayed us, too-

[But Jod's shard isn't kept near her heart.]